take the bench in English

Forms: takes the bench [present, singular, third-person], taking the bench [participle, present], took the bench [past], taken the bench [participle, past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> the bench}} take the bench (third-person singular simple present takes the bench, present participle taking the bench, simple past took the bench, past participle taken the bench)

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes the bench",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking the bench",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took the bench",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken the bench",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> the bench"
      },
      "expansion": "take the bench (third-person singular simple present takes the bench, present participle taking the bench, simple past took the bench, past participle taken the bench)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become a judge."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_the_bench-en-verb-59qR0afr",
      "links": [
        [
          "judge",
          "judge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To become a judge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To start a session of a court of law."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_the_bench-en-verb-nAiFC2IV",
      "links": [
        [
          "session",
          "session"
        ],
        [
          "court of law",
          "court of law"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To start a session of a court of law."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take the bench"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Law"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes the bench",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking the bench",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took the bench",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken the bench",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> the bench"
      },
      "expansion": "take the bench (third-person singular simple present takes the bench, present participle taking the bench, simple past took the bench, past participle taken the bench)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become a judge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "judge",
          "judge"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To become a judge."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To start a session of a court of law."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "session",
          "session"
        ],
        [
          "court of law",
          "court of law"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To start a session of a court of law."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take the bench"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"take the bench" meaning in English

Verb