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. |
Flotation
(n.) The act, process, or state of floating. |
Flotation
(n.) The science of floating bodies. |
Gunter's scale
() A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. |
King's Bench
() Formerly, the highest court of common law in England |
Scale
(n.) The dish of a balance |
Scale
(n.) The sign or constellation Libra. |
Scale
(v. t.) To weigh or measure according to a scale |
Scale
(n.) One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. |
Scale
(n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish |
Scale
(n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura |
Scale
(n.) A scale insect. (See below.) |
Scale
(n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement |
Scale
(n.) The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife. |
Scale
(n.) An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler. |
Scale
(n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals. |
Scale
(v. t.) To strip or clear of scale or scales |
Scale
(v. t.) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth |
Scale
(v. t.) To scatter |
Scale
(v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder. |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae |
Scale
(v. i.) To separate |
Scale
(n.) A ladder |
Scale
(n.) Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals. |
Scale
(n.) A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale. |
Scale
(n.) A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances |
Scale
(n.) A basis for a numeral system |
Scale
(n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave |
Scale
(n.) Gradation |
Scale
(n.) Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts |
Scale
(v. t.) To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder |
Scale
(v. i.) To lead up by steps |
Scale-winged
(a.) Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera |
Test
(n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement. |
Test
(n.) Examination or trial by the cupel |
Test
(n.) Means of trial |
Test
(n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness |
Test
(n.) Discriminative characteristic |
Test
(n.) Judgment |
Test
(n.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate |
| economy of scale | the saving in cost of production that is due to mass production |
| 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 |
| means test | an inquiry into the financial position of someone applying for financial aid |
test
trial
run | the act of testing something, in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately, he called each flip of the coin a new trial |
clinical trial
clinical test | a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects, in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use |
preclinical trial
preclinical test
preclinical phase | a laboratory test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on animal subjects, conducted to gather evidence justifying a clinical trial |
| test trial | the act of undergoing testing, he survived the great test of battle, candidates must compete in a trial of skill |
| screen test | a filmed audition of an actor or actress |
MOT
MOT test
Ministry of Transportation test | a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes |
test mental test
mental testing
psychometric test | any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc, the test was standardized on a large sample of students |
intelligence test
IQ test | a psychometric test of intelligence, they used to think that intelligence is what an intelligence test tests |
| Stanford-Binet test | revision of the Binet-Simon Scale |
| Binet-Simon Scale | the first intelligence test |
| personality test | any test that is intended to assess personality |
projective test
projective device
projective technique | any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations |
Rorschach
Rorschach test
inkblot test | a projective tests using bilaterally symmetrical inkblots, subjects state what they see in the inkblot |
Thematic Apperception Test
TAT | a projective technique using black-and-white pictures, subjects tell a story about each picture |
| sub-test | one of a battery of related tests |
| flotation floatation | financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares |
test case
test suit | a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent |
| scale | a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals |
| fish scale | scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish |
| test | a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins |
| scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
| soft scale | an insect active in all stages |
brown soft scale
Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
| armored scale | insect having a firm covering of wax especially in the female |
San Jose scale
Aspidiotus perniciosus | small east Asian insect naturalized in the United States that damages fruit trees |
| 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 |
| flat bench | a bench on which a weightlifter lies to do exercises |
| front bench | any of the front seats in the House of Commons that are reserved for ministers or former ministers |
lab bench
laboratory bench | a workbench in a laboratory |
life preserver
preserver
flotation device | rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning |
| optical bench | apparatus for observation and measurement of optical phenomena |
| park bench | a bench in a public park |
pew
church bench | long bench with backs, used in church by the congregation |
| plate scale shell | a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) |
| scale | an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks |
| scale weighing machine | a measuring instrument for weighing, shows amount of mass |
spring balance
spring scale | a balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring |
steelyard
lever scale
beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
| test bed | a place equipped with instruments for testing (e.g. engines or machinery or computer programs etc.) under working conditions |
| test equipment | equipment required to perform a test |
| test paper | paper impregnated with an indicator for use in chemical tests |