CHURCH BENCH Synonyms

• a person in a kneeling position

• a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on

• 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 location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based

• the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body

• a part of a machine that supports or guides another part

• 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

• place or attach firmly in or on a base

• place in or on a seat

• a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed

• small area set off by walls for special use

• a booth where articles are displayed for sale

• a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge

• seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater

• small individual study area in a library

• a tactic used to mislead or delay

• postpone doing what one should be doing

• come to a stop

• deliberately delay an event or action

• put into, or keep in, a stall

• experience a stall in flight, of airplanes

• cause an airplane to go into a stall

• cause an engine to stop