Bench

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Bench or The Bench can refer to:

Furniture

• Bench (furniture), a long seat
• Workbench, a table at which manual work is done
• Countertop or benchtop

Religion

• Bench (verb) Judaeo-English term for reciting Birkat Hamazon (Grace After Meals)

Arts

• The Bench (2000 film), a Danish film
• The Bench (2007 film), a British film
• The Bench (TV series), a British series
• The Bench (Hogarth), a painting by William Hogarth

Business

• Bench (British clothing brand)
• Bench (Philippine clothing brand)
• Bench Accounting, a company

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 (metonymy), certain people in a given context, associated with a particular seating area, especially in politics and law
• 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 (to differentiate from the Bar – the lawyers or barristers); and may also mean 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

Language

• Bench language (Bench-non), a language spoken in the Bench Maji Zone of Ethiopia

People

• Bench (woreda), a people in Ethiopia
• Jo Bench, an English death metal bass player
• Johnny Bench, a baseball player

Sports

• Bench, players available for substitution
  • In soccer, the technical area contains the dugout (or "bench")
• Bench (weight training), a piece of weight training equipment
• Bench press, one of three power-lifting exercises
• The Bench (University of California), the student rooting section for the University of California men's basketball team

See also

• Bench, Idaho
• Benchmark (surveying)
• Benchmarking—a recreational activity in which participants search for benchmarks using a handheld GPS receiver.