the <span class="searchmatch">Treasury</span> <span class="searchmatch">Bench</span> (UK politics) The front <span class="searchmatch">bench</span> in the House of Commons....
Borrowed from Dutch schrijfbank, corresponding to schrijven + bank (“<span class="searchmatch">bench</span>, desk, table, work area”). IPA(key): /skʁi.bɑ̃/ scriban m (plural scribans)...
island <span class="searchmatch">bench</span> (in a kitchen or lab) block, city block (group of houses etc) île “îlot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized <span class="searchmatch">Treasury</span> of...
<span class="searchmatch">Treasury</span> of the French Language], 2012. From Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's table”), from Old High German bank, banch, banc (“counter, <span class="searchmatch">bench</span>”)...
English bank, from Old French banc. Doublet of banco, bank, and <span class="searchmatch">bench</span>. banc (plural bancs) A <span class="searchmatch">bench</span>; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment. A tribunal...
elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers. A <span class="searchmatch">bench</span> built into a wall, especially (military) one built into a wall of a defensive...
a small <span class="searchmatch">bench</span>”, literally “a small <span class="searchmatch">bench</span>”), from banco (“<span class="searchmatch">bench</span>”), from Lombardic *bank, *panch (“<span class="searchmatch">bench</span>”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“<span class="searchmatch">bench</span>”). Akin...
a certain height; a <span class="searchmatch">bench</span> or table (board games) rack “chevalet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized <span class="searchmatch">Treasury</span> of the French Language]...
langue française informatisé [Digitized <span class="searchmatch">Treasury</span> of the French Language], 2012. From Arabic مِصْطَبَة (miṣṭaba, “<span class="searchmatch">bench</span>”). IPA(key): /ˈmas.ta.ba/ Rhymes: -astaba...
with probable influence from banc (compare German Eisbank (literally “ice <span class="searchmatch">bench</span>”)). IPA(key): /bɑ̃.kiz/ banquise f (plural banquises) (geography) sea ice...