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In lang=en terms the difference between bench and mouse

is that bench is to place on a bench or seat of honour while mouse is to hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.

As nouns the difference between bench and mouse

is that bench is a long seat, for example, in the park or bench can be (weightlifting) the weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed while mouse is any small rodent of the genus mus .

As verbs the difference between bench and mouse

is that bench is (sports) to remove a player from play or bench can be (transitive|and|intransitive|colloquial) to lift by bench pressing or bench can be while mouse is to move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around ).

bench

English

(wikipedia bench)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bench, benk, bynk, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(es)
  • A long seat, for example, in the park.
  • They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.
  • (legal) The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.
  • They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench .
  • (legal, figuratively) The place where the judges sit.
  • She sat on the bench for 30 years before she retired.
  • (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
  • He spent the first three games on the bench , watching.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
  • , date=March 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.}}
  • (sports, figuratively) The number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length.
  • Injuries have shortened the bench .
  • A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
  • She placed the workpiece on the bench , inspected it closely, and opened the cover.
  • (weightlifting) A horizontal padded surface, usually with a weight rack, used for support during exercise.
  • * 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii
  • I had no bench or power rack, so by necessity every exercise I did started with the weights on the floor.
  • (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall. Description of bench, as part of the benchmark etymology
  • After removing the bench , we can use the mark left on the wall as a reference point.
  • A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
  • *
  • That number carried his glance to the top of this first bulging bench of cliff-base.
  • (geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
  • (UK, Australia, NZ) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
  • A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
  • Derived terms
    * benchmark * bench plane * bench trial * bench warrant * bench-warmer * deacon's bench

    Verb

    (es)
  • (sports) To remove a player from play.
  • They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.
  • (figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
  • (slang) To push the victim back on the person behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
  • To furnish with benches.
  • * Dryden
  • 'Twas benched with turf.
  • * Tennyson
  • stately theaters benched crescentwise
  • To place on a bench or seat of honour.
  • * Shakespeare
  • whom I have benched and reared to worship
    Synonyms
    * (sports)

    Etymology 2

    From bench press by shortening.

    Verb

    (es)
  • (transitive, and, intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
  • I heard he can bench 150 pounds.
  • * 1988 , Frederick C. Hatfield, "Powersource: Ties that bind", '' ''47 (6): 21.
  • For the first several years of my exclusive career in powerlifting, I couldn't bench too well.

    Noun

    (benches)
  • (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
  • He became frustrated when his bench increased by only 10 pounds despite a month of training.

    Etymology 3

    See (bentsh).

    Verb

    (es)
  • References

    mouse

    English

    Noun

    (mice)
  • Any small rodent of the genus Mus .
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • (lb) A member of the many small rodent and marsupial species resembling such a rodent.
  • A quiet or shy person.
  • (lb) (plural'' mice''' ''or, rarely,'' ' mouses ) An input device that is moved over a pad or other flat surface to produce a corresponding movement of a pointer on a graphical display.
  • (lb) Hematoma.
  • (lb) A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.
  • (lb)
  • :(Shakespeare)
  • A match used in firing guns or blasting.
  • (lb) A small model of (a fragment of) (Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory) with desirable properties (depending on the context).
  • Hypernyms

    * (small rodent) rodent

    Coordinate terms

    * (small rodent) rat * (input device) joystick, trackpad, trackball, pointing stick

    Derived terms

    * (as) quiet as a mouse * cat and mouse * church mouse * deer mouse * dormouse * fieldmouse * house mouse * kangaroo mouse * mouseable, mousable * mouse button * mouse click * mouse-ear * mouse mat * mouse pad * mouser * mousetrap * mousy * optical mouse * play cat and mouse * poor as a church mouse * when the cat's away the mice will play

    Verb

    (mous)
  • To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around ).
  • To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats.
  • (nautical) To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire.
  • Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.
  • (computing) To navigate by means of a computer mouse.
  • * 1988 , MacUser: Volume 4
  • I had just moused to the File menu and the pull-down menu repeated the menu bar's hue a dozen shades lighter.
  • * 2009 , Daniel Tunkelang, Faceted Search (page 35)
  • Unlike the Flamenco work, the Relation Browser allows users to quickly explore a document space using dynamic queries issued by mousing over facet elements in the interface.
  • (obsolete, nonce, transitive) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse.
  • * Shakespeare
  • [Death] mousing the flesh of men.

    Derived terms

    * mouse around * mouse over * mouser

    See also

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