Bench
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Bench or The Bench can refer to:
Furniture
- Bench (furniture), a long seat
- Memorial bench, a bench commemorating something that is deceased
- Workbench, a table at which manual work is done
- Countertop or benchtop
Arts
- The Bench (2000 film), a Danish film
- The Bench (TV series), a 2001 British series
- The Bench (Hogarth), a painting by William Hogarth
- The Bench (book), a 2021 children's book by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Business
Geology
- Bench (geology), a long, relatively narrow strip of relatively level or gently inclined land of differing origins that is bounded by distinctly steeper slopes above and below it
- Benches, steps cut into the side of open-pit mines
Law and politics
- Bench (law), the location where a judge sits while in court, often a raised desk in a courtroom; also refers to the judiciary as a whole, and to a group of judges hearing a case and judging on a case
- Bench, the panel or body of justices of the peace in a specific county under the traditional English system of magistracy
People
- Jo Bench, an English death metal bass player
- Johnny Bench, a baseball player
Places
- Bench, Idaho
- Bench (woreda), a district in Ethiopia
Spoken
- Bench language, spoken in the Bench Maji Zone of Ethiopia
- Bench people, an ethnic group of Ethiopia, speakers of the Bench language
- Benching or bentching, an English-language term for reciting Birkat Hamazon
Sports
- Bench, the place where players available for substitution wait (synonymously dugout); also referred to the players as such
- In soccer, the technical area contains the bench
- Bench (weight training), a piece of weight training equipment
- Bench press, one of three power-lifting exercises
- The Bench, the student rooting section for the University of California men's basketball team
See also
- Benched (film), a 2018 sports drama
- Benched (TV series), a 2014 sitcom
- "Benched" (Modern Family), an episode of sitcom Modern Family
- "Benched", an episode of drama series Hit the Floor
- Benchmark (surveying)
- Benchmarking (geolocating), a recreational activity in which participants search for benchmarks using a handheld Global Positioning System