Seat vs. Bench — What's the Difference?

A seat is a place to sit. The term may encompass additional features, such as back, armrest, head restraint but also headquarters in a wider sense.

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

A thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool.

A long work table in a workshop or laboratory

A person's buttocks.

A judge's seat in a law court.

A place in an elected legislative or other body

A long seat in Parliament for politicians of a specified party

A principal site or location

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

A part of a machine that supports or guides another part

A flat ledge in masonry or on sloping ground.

Arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere

Exhibit (a dog) at a show

Fit in position

Withdraw (a sports player) from play

Something, such as a chair or bench, that may be sat on

Short for bench press (verb)

The part on which one rests in sitting

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

A place in which one may sit

(Nautical) A thwart in a boat.

The right to occupy such a place or a ticket indicating this right

The seat for judges in a courtroom.

The buttocks.

The office or position of a judge.

The part of a garment that covers the buttocks.

Often Bench The judge or judges composing a court.

A part serving as the base of something else.

A seat occupied by a person in an official capacity.

The surface or part on which another part sits or rests.

The office of such a person.

The place where something is located or based

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

A center of authority; a capital

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

A place of abode or residence, especially a large house that is part of an estate

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

Membership in an organization, such as a legislative body or stock exchange, that is obtained by appointment, election, or purchase.

The reserve players on a team.

The manner of sitting on a horse

A level, narrow stretch of land interrupting a declivity.

To place in or on a seat.

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

To cause or assist to sit down

To furnish with benches.

To provide with a particular seat

To seat on a bench.

To have or provide seats for

To show (dogs) in a bench show.

To install in a position of authority or eminence.

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

To fix firmly in place

(Sports) To bench-press.

To rest on or fit into another part

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

Something to be sat upon.

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

A place in which to sit.

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

The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

The place where the judges sit.

A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.

The dignity of holding an official seat.

The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

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

The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.

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

(engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.

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

A location or site.

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

(figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

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

The location of a governing body.

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

(certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.

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

A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.

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

The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.

A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.

One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.

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

(historical) Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.

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

The starting point of a fire.

To remove a player from play.

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.

(transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.

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

(transitive) To provide with a place to sit.

(transitive) To furnish with benches.

(transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

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

To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.

To lift by bench pressing

(transitive) To assign the seats of.

Alternative spelling of bentsh

(transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

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

To rest; to lie down.

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

To settle; to plant with inhabitants.

The seat where judges sit in court.

(transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.

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

The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

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

The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.

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

That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.

To furnish with benches.

A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.

To place on a bench or seat of honor.

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

To sit on a seat of justice.

A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.

A long seat for more than one person

To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.

The reserve players on a team;

To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

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

To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

Persons who administer justice

To fix; to set firm.

A strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic

To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.

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

To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

Take out of a game; of players

To rest; to lie down.

Exhibit on a bench;

A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane);

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

Furniture that is designed for sitting on;

Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit);

A center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)

The cloth covering for the buttocks;

Show to a seat; assign a seat for;

Be able to seat;

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position;

Put a seat on a chair

Provide with seats;