Bank vs. Bench — What's the Difference?

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates a demand deposit while simultaneously making loans. Lending activities can be directly performed by the bank or indirectly through capital markets.

A long seat for several people, typically made of wood or stone

A piled-up mass, as of snow or clouds; a heap

A long work table in a workshop or laboratory

A steep natural incline.

A judge's seat in a law court.

An artificial embankment.

A long seat in Parliament for politicians of a specified party

The slope of land adjoining a body of water, especially adjoining a river, lake, or channel.

A seat at the side of a sports field for coaches, substitutes, and players not taking part in a game

A large elevated area of a sea floor.

A flat ledge in masonry or on sloping ground.

(Games) The cushion of a billiard or pool table.

Exhibit (a dog) at a show

The lateral inward tilting, as of a motor vehicle or an aircraft, in turning or negotiating a curve.

Withdraw (a sports player) from play

A business establishment in which money is kept for saving or commercial purposes or is invested, supplied for loans, or exchanged.

Short for bench press (verb)

The offices or building in which such an establishment is located.

A long seat, often without a back, for two or more persons.

The funds of a gambling establishment.

(Nautical) A thwart in a boat.

The funds held by a dealer or banker in certain games, especially gambling games.

The seat for judges in a courtroom.

The reserve pieces, cards, chips, or play money in some games, such as poker, from which the players may draw.

The office or position of a judge.

A supply or stock for future or emergency use

Often Bench The judge or judges composing a court.

(Medicine) A supply of human fluids or tissues, such as blood, sperm, or skin, that is stored in a facility for future use.

A seat occupied by a person in an official capacity.

A place of safekeeping or storage

The office of such a person.

A set of elevators.

A strong worktable, such as one used in carpentry or in a laboratory.

A row of keys on a keyboard.

A platform on which animals, especially dogs, are exhibited.

A bench for rowers in a galley.

The area, often equipped with benches, where the coaches and the players who are not actively participating in the game remain.

A row of oars in a galley.

The reserve players on a team.

(Printing) The lines of type under a headline.

A level, narrow stretch of land interrupting a declivity.

To border or protect with a ridge or embankment.

A level elevation of land along a shore or coast, especially one marking a former shoreline.

To pile up; amass

To furnish with benches.

To cover (a fire), as with ashes or fresh fuel, to ensure continued low burning.

To seat on a bench.

To construct with a slope rising to the outside edge

To show (dogs) in a bench show.

To tilt (an aircraft) laterally and inwardly in flight.

(Sports) To keep out of or remove from a game

To tilt (a motor vehicle) laterally and inwardly when negotiating a curve.

(Sports) To bench-press.

(Games) To strike (a billiard ball) so that it rebounds from the cushion of the table.

A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.

(Sports) To play (a ball or puck) in such a way as to make it glance off a surface, such as a backboard or wall.

(government) A long seat for politicians in a parliamentary chamber.

To rise in or take the form of a bank.

(law) The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.

To tilt an aircraft or a motor vehicle laterally when turning.

The place where the judges sit.

To deposit in a bank.

The dignity of holding an official seat.

To store for future use.

(sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.

To transact business with a bank or maintain a bank account.

The number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length.

To operate a bank.

A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.

To arrange or set up in a row

A horizontal padded surface, usually adjustable in height and inclination and often with attached weight rack, used for proper posture during exercise.

(countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.

(surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall.

(countable) A branch office of such an institution.

A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.

(countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.

(geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.

(countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.

The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.

A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.

Money; profit.

A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.

(countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.

(weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.

A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

To remove a player from play.

(countable) A device used to store coins or currency.

To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.

(hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.

(slang) To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.

An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

(transitive) To furnish with benches.

(geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.

(transitive) To place on a bench or seat of honour.

(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.

To lift by bench pressing

(rail) An incline, a hill.

Alternative spelling of bentsh

A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.

(mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.

(mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

The seat where judges sit in court.

(mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.

A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; - so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.

(computing) A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.

To furnish with benches.

(pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

To place on a bench or seat of honor.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

To sit on a seat of justice.

A bench or seat for judges in court.

A long seat for more than one person

The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc

The reserve players on a team;

A kind of table used by printers.

A level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below)

(music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

Persons who administer justice

(uncountable) slang for money

A strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic

(intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.

The magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in judicial capacity to compose the court collectively

(transitive) To put into a bank.

Take out of a game; of players

To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Exhibit on a bench;

To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.

(transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.

(transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.

(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.

(transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

To pass by the banks of.

To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

To arrange or order in a row.

A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow.

A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

The lateral inclination of an aëroplane as it rounds a curve; as, a bank of 45° is easy; a bank of 90° is dangerous.

A group or series of objects arranged near together; as, a bank of electric lamps, etc.

The tilt of a roadway or railroad, at a curve in the road, designed to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of overturning during a turn.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

A sort of table used by printers.

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

The building or office used for banking purposes.

A fund to be used in transacting business, especially a joint stock or capital.

The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses.

In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw; in Monopoly, the fund of money used to pay bonuses due to the players, or to which they pay fines.

A place where something is stored and held available for future use;

To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.

To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

To pass by the banks of.

To build (a roadway or railroad) with an inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked at the curves.

To deposit in a bank.

To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.

To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; - said of a flying machine, an aërocurve, or the like.

A financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities;

Sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water);

A supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)

A building in which commercial banking is transacted;

An arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers;

A container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home;

A long ridge or pile;

The funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games;

A slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

A flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning);

Tip laterally;

Enclose with a bank;

Do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank;

Act as the banker in a game or in gambling

Be in the banking business

Put into a bank account;

Cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning;

Have confidence or faith in;