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Bench vs Trestle - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between bench and trestle

is that bench is a long seat, for example, in the park while trestle is a horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.

As a verb bench

is to remove a player from play.

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

    trestle

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia trestle) (en noun)
  • A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
  • A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
  • He turned the knob, but the door was locked. Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor.
  • A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
  • A trestle bridge.
  • Derived terms

    * trestle bed * trestle board * trestle table * trestle-tree * trestle-work

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