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Stool vs Bench - What's the difference?

stool | bench |

As nouns the difference between stool and bench

is that stool is a seat for one person without a back or armrest while bench is a long seat, for example, in the park.

As verbs the difference between stool and bench

is that stool is to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers while bench is to remove a player from play.

stool

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
  • A footstool.
  • Feces; excrement.
  • (label) A decoy.
  • A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
  • Throne.
  • (label) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
  • (label) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
    • (Totten)
  • Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    {{der3, footstool , stool pigeon , stoolie , window stool}}

    See also

    * chair * seat

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) stolo. See stolon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  • *1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
  • *:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.

    • Anagrams

    * loots * tools ----

    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)

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