2. n-m. bank (mass of material, of cloud, fog, etc)
3. n-m. bank, shoal, school (of fish)
Traductions de banc et leurs définitions
bench
1. n. (Meubles) Établi.
2. n. (Meubles) Banc.
bench
1. n. A long seat with or without a back, found for example in parks and schools.
They sat on a park bench and tossed bread crumbs to the ducks and pigeons.
2. n. (legal) The people who decide on the verdict; the judiciary.
They are awaiting a decision on the motion from the bench.
3. n. (legal, figuratively) The place where the judges sit.
She sat on the bench for 30 years before she retired.
4. n. The dignity of holding an official seat.
the bench of bishops; the civic bench
5. n. (sports) The place where players (substitutes) and coaches sit when not playing.
He spent the first three games on the bench, watching.
6. n. (sports) The number of players on a team able to participate, expressed in terms of length.
Injuries have shortened the bench.
7. n. A place where assembly or hand work is performed; a workbench.
She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.
8. n. (weightlifting) A horizontal padded surface, usually with a weight rack, used for support during exercise.
9. n. (surveying) A bracket used to mount land surveying equipment onto a stone or a wall., as part of the benchmark etymology.
After removing the bench, we can use the mark left on the wall as a reference point.
10. n. A flat ledge in the slope of an earthwork, work of masonry, or similar.
11. n. (geology) A thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by steeper slopes above and below.
12. n. (Australia) A kitchen surface on which to prepare food, a counter.
13. n. (Australia) A bathroom surface which holds the washbasin, a vanity.
14. n. A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public, traditionally on benches or raised platforms.
15. v. (transitive, sports) To remove a player from play.
They benched him for the rest of the game because they thought he was injured.
16. v. (transitive, figuratively) To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily.
17. v. (slang) To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over.
18. v. To furnish with benches.
19. v. To place on a bench or seat of honour.
20. v. (transitive, and intransitive, colloquial) To lift by bench pressing
I heard he can bench 150 pounds.
21. n. (weightlifting) The weight one is able to bench press, especially the maximum weight capable of being pressed.
He became frustrated when his bench increased by only 10 pounds despite a month of training.
22. v. alternative spelling of bentsh
school
1. n. École, endroit où on enseigne aux plus jeunes.
2. n. (États-Unis) Université.
3. n. Faculté, branche d'une université.
School of Law
4. n. École composé des adhérents à une certaine doctrine.
5. n. Banc (groupe de poissons).
A school of fish.
Un banc de poissons
6. v. Éduquer, en particulier dans une école.
school
1. n. (collective) A group of fish or a group of marine mammals such as porpoises, dolphins, or whales.
The divers encountered a huge school of mackerel.
2. n. A multitude.
3. v. (lbl, en, intransitive) (of fish) To form into, or travel in a school.
4. n. (US, Canada) An institution dedicated to teaching and learning; an educational institution.
Our children attend a public school in our neighborhood.
Harvard University is a famous American postsecondary school.
5. n. (British) An educational institution providing primary and secondary education, prior to tertiary education (college or university).
6. n. (UK) At Eton College, a period or session of teaching.
Divinity, history and geography are studied for two schools per week.
7. n. Within a larger educational institution, an organizational unit, such as a department or institute, which is dedicated to a specific subject area.
We are enrolled in the same university, but I attend the School of Economics and my brother is in the School of Music.
8. n. An art movement, a community of artists.
9. n. (considered collectively) The followers of a particular doctrine; a particular way of thinking or particular doctrine; a school of thought.
These economists belong to the monetarist school.
10. n. The time during which classes are attended or in session in an educational institution.
I'll see you after school.
11. n. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honours are held.
12. n. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age.
He was a gentleman of the old school.
13. n. An establishment offering specialized instruction, as for driving, cooking, typing, coding, etc.
14. v. To educate, teach, or train (often, but not necessarily, in a school.)
Many future prime ministers were schooled in Eton.
15. v. To defeat emphatically, to teach an opponent a harsh lesson.
16. v. To control, or compose, one's expression.
She took care to school her expression, not giving away any of her feelings.
Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.
2. v. (obsolete) To move across or counter to; to cross.
An arrow thwarts the air.
3. n. (nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart.
4. n. (nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.
5. adj. Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
1. n. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. n. A branch office of such an institution.
3. n. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
4. n. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
5. n. (gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. n. (slang) money; profit
7. n. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. n. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
blood bank; sperm bank; data bank
9. n. A device used to store coins or currency.
If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
10. v. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
He banked with Barclays.
11. v. To put into a bank.
I'm going to bank the money.
12. v. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
Johnny banked some coke for me.
13. n. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
14. n. (nautical, hydrology) 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).
the banks of Newfoundland
15. n. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
16. n. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
17. n. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
18. n. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
19. n. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
20. n. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
21. n. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
Ores are brought to bank.
22. v. (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
23. v. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
24. v. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
to bank sand
25. v. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
26. v. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
27. v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
28. n. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
a bank of switches
a bank of pay phones
29. n. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
30. v. (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
31. n. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
32. n. A bench or seat for judges in court.
33. n. 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.
34. n. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
35. n. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
