Bench (n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. |
Bench (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work |
Bench (n.) The seat where judges sit in court. |
Bench (n.) The persons who sit as judges |
Bench (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public |
Bench (n.) A conformation like a bench |
Bench (v. t.) To furnish with benches. |
Bench (v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor. |
Bench (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice. |
Bench warrant () A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime |
Church-bench (n.) A seat in the porch of a church. |
Control (n.) A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register |
Control (n.) That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder |
Control (n.) Power or authority to check or restrain |
Control (v. t.) To check by a counter register or duplicate account |
Control (v. t.) To exercise restraining or governing influence over |
Cover-point (n.) The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." |
Dew-point (n.) The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of the atmosphere. |
Dust-point (n.) An old rural game. |
Hall-mark (n.) The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively |
King's Bench () Formerly, the highest court of common law in England |
Libration point (n.) any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body. |
Mark (n.) A license of reprisals. See Marque. |
Mark (n.) An old weight and coin. See Marc. |
Mark (n.) The unit of monetary account of the German Empire, equal to 23.8 cents of United States money |
Mark (n.) A visible sign or impression made or left upon anything |
Mark (n.) A character or device put on an article of merchandise by the maker to show by whom it was made |
Mark (n.) A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write. |
Mark (n.) A fixed object serving for guidance, as of a ship, a traveler, a surveyor, etc. |
Mark (n.) A trace, dot, line, imprint, or discoloration, although not regarded as a token or sign |
Mark (n.) An evidence of presence, agency, or influence |
Mark (n.) That toward which a missile is directed |
Mark (n.) Attention, regard, or respect. |
Mark (n.) Limit or standard of action or fact |
Mark (n.) Badge or sign of honor, rank, or official station. |
Mark (n.) Preeminence |
Mark (n.) A characteristic or essential attribute |
Mark (n.) A number or other character used in registring |
Mark (n.) Image |
Mark (n.) One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps." |
Mark (v. t.) To put a mark upon |
Mark (v. t.) To be a mark upon |
Mark (v. t.) To leave a trace, scratch, scar, or other mark, upon, or any evidence of action |
Mark (v. t.) To keep account of |
Mark (v. t.) To notice or observe |
Mark (v. i.) To take particular notice |
Plimsoll's mark () A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law |
Point (v. t. & i.) To appoint. |
Point (n.) That which pricks or pierces |
Point (n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others |
bell ringer bull's eye mark home run | something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal, the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer, scored a bull's eye, hit the mark, the president's speech was a home run |
capture gaining control seizure | the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property |
fire control | preparation for the delivery of shellfire on a target |
point after point after touchdown extra point | in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown |
springboard jumping-off point point of departure | a beginning from which an enterprise is launched, he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own, reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions, the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out |
three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
inventory control | supervision of the supply and storage and accessibility of items in order to insure an adequate supply without excessive oversupply |
bench press | a weightlift in which you lie on your back on a bench and press weights upward |
incline bench press | a bench press performed on an inclined bench |
control | the activity of managing or exerting control over something, the control of the mob by the police was admirable |
crowd control | activity of controlling a crowd |
damage control | an effort to minimize or curtail damage or loss |
flight control | control from ground stations of airplanes in flight by means of messages transmitted to the pilot electronically |
flood control | (engineering) the art or technique of trying to control rivers with dams etc in order to minimize the occurrence of floods |
gun control | efforts to regulate or control sales of guns |
internal control | an accounting procedure or system designed to promote efficiency or assure the implementation of a policy or safeguard assets or avoid fraud and error etc. |
management control | an internal control performed by one or more managers |
quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
arms control | a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country |
riot control riot control operation | the measures taken to control a riot |
control | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc, the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired, he had lost control of his sphincters |
motor control | control of muscles |
birth control birth prevention family planning | limiting the number of children born |
rhythm method of birth control rhythm method rhythm calendar method of birth control calendar method | natural family planning in which ovulation is assumed to occur days before the onset of a period (the fertile period would be assumed to extend from daythrough day of her cycle) |
traffic control | control of the flow of traffic in a building or a city |
point duty | the control of traffic by a policeman stationed at an intersection |
social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
population control | control over the growth of population, a government program |
occupation military control | the control of a country by military forces of a foreign power |
three-point turn | the act of turning a vehicle around in a limited space by moving in a series of back and forward arcs |
bluepoint blue point | small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island |
blue point Siamese | Siamese cat having a bluish creamolored body and dark grey points |
airfoil aerofoil control surface surface | a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air, can lift or control a plane in flight |
basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
bench | a long seat for more than one person |
bench | (law) the seat for judges in a courtroom |
bench clamp | a clamp used to hold work in place on a workbench |
bench hook | any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing) |
bench lathe | lathe mounted on a workbench |
bench press | a small punch press mounted on a workbench |
contraceptive preventive preventative contraceptive device prophylactic device birth control device | an agent or device intended to prevent conception |
control controller | a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine, the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly, I turned the controls over to her |
control center | the operational center for a group of related activities, the general in command never left the control center |
control circuit negative feedback circuit | a feedback circuit that subtracts from the input |
control key command key | (computer science) the key on a computer keyboard that is used (in combination with some other key) to type control characters |
control panel instrument panel control board board panel | electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices, he checked the instrument panel, suddenly the board lit up like a Christmas tree |
control rod | a steel or aluminum rod that can be moved up or down to control the rate of the nuclear reaction |
control room | a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio) |
control system | a system for controlling the operation of another system |
control tower | a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport |