All English words - page 539

Meanings of Benchmark:

noun

A standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.

Usage examples:

The pay settlement will set a benchmark for other employers and workers

verb

Evaluate (something) by comparison with a standard.

Usage examples:

We are benchmarking our performance against external criteria

Meanings of Benchmarked:

verb

Evaluate (something) by comparison with a standard.

Usage examples:

We are benchmarking our performance against external criteria

noun

A standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.

Usage examples:

The pay settlement will set a benchmark for other employers and workers

Meanings of Benchmarking:

verb

Evaluate (something) by comparison with a standard.

Usage examples:

We are benchmarking our performance against external criteria

noun

A standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.

Usage examples:

The pay settlement will set a benchmark for other employers and workers

Meanings of Benchmarks:

noun

A standard or point of reference against which things may be compared.

Usage examples:

The pay settlement will set a benchmark for other employers and workers

verb

Evaluate (something) by comparison with a standard.

Usage examples:

We are benchmarking our performance against external criteria

Meanings of Benchwarmer:

noun

A sports player who does not get selected to play; a substitute.

Usage examples:

On his watch, the better players reportedly grossed $1,000 per month, while benchwarmers averaged $…

Meanings of Benchwork:

noun

Work carried out at a bench in a laboratory or workshop.

Usage examples:

The august body, whose members had long abandoned benchwork, was speechless in wonder that he still…

Meanings of Bend:

verb

Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

Usage examples:

The wire has to be bent back tightly

noun

A curve in a road, river, path, or racing circuit.

Usage examples:

The van screeched round a bend

Meanings of Bend over backward:

idiom

To try very hard to do something

Usage examples:

I've been bending over backward trying to help you, and this is all the thanks i get!

Meanings of Bendability:

noun

The quality of being easily bent; flexibility.

Usage examples:

They show greater resistance to corrosion, have better bendability and are fire-resistant.

Meanings of Bendable:

adjective

That can be bent

Usage examples:

Bendable copper pipe

Meanings of Bended:

phrase

In a position in which the knee of one leg is touching the floor

Usage examples:

He went down on bended knee to ask her to marry him., he expects politicians to go to him on bended…

Meanings of Bender:

noun

An object or person that bends something.

Usage examples:

A metal bender

Meanings of Benders:

noun

An object or person that bends something.

Usage examples:

A metal bender

Meanings of Bending:

verb

Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

Usage examples:

The wire has to be bent back tightly

noun

A curve in a road, river, path, or racing circuit.

Usage examples:

The van screeched round a bend

Meanings of Bendlet:

noun

A bend of half the normal width, usually borne in groups of two or three.

Usage examples:

The same holds true for the bendlet and the otter and the wings of the crest and the atom and the s…

Meanings of Bends:

verb

Shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

Usage examples:

The wire has to be bent back tightly

noun

A curve in a road, river, path, or racing circuit.

Usage examples:

The van screeched round a bend

phrase

A serious medical condition that divers (= people who swim underwater) get when they come up to the surface of the water too quickly

Usage examples:

On the way up, divers stop at various depths in order to prevent the bends., many of the men who di…

Meanings of Bendy:

adjective

Capable of bending; soft and flexible.

Usage examples:

A bendy toy

Meanings of Beneath:

preposition

Extending or directly underneath.

Usage examples:

A 2.5-mile tunnel beneath the alps

adverb

Extending or directly underneath something.

Usage examples:

A house built on stilts to allow air to circulate beneath

Meanings of Beneath-someone:

phrase

To not be good enough for someone

Usage examples:

Office work of any description he felt was beneath him., would you be willing to give an interview,…

Meanings of Benedicite:

noun

A blessing, especially a grace said at table in religious communities.

Usage examples:

Raising his own goblet, father oppius blessed the congregation and the meal with a great rolling of…

Meanings of Benedict:

noun

A dish consisting of poached eggs (= cooked by cracking them into boiling water) served on two halves of an english muffin (= a small, round, flat type of bread), with ham or bacon (= sliced meat from a pig) and hollandaise (= a creamy sauce made from eggs and butter)

Usage examples:

For breakfast, he always makes eggs benedict., my eggs benny was very good but other dishes were no…

Meanings of Benedictine:

noun

A liqueur based on brandy, originally made by benedictine monks in france.

Usage examples:

He keeps an array of old bitters bottles behind the bar, each one filled with highly flavored lique…

adjective

A monk or nun of a christian religious order following the rule of st benedict and established c. 540.

Meanings of Benediction:

noun

The utterance of a blessing, especially at the end of a religious service.

Usage examples:

He said the benediction

Meanings of Benedictions:

noun

The utterance of a blessing, especially at the end of a religious service.

Usage examples:

He said the benediction

Meanings of Benedictory:

adjective

Relating to the giving of a blessing.

Usage examples:

Our thanks, yet again, to shirley for arranging another highly successful outing, and to richard fo…