Word: Bridge
How to pronounce: brɪʤ
Noun
Definitions:
1. A structure carrying a road, path, railroad, or canal across a river, ravine, road, railroad, or other obstacle.
Example sentences: "A bridge across the river"
2. The elevated, enclosed platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations.
Example sentences: "Talbot stepped across the two gunwales and made his way up to the bridge"
3. The upper bony part of a person's nose.
Example sentences: "He pushed his spectacles further up the bridge of his nose"
4. A partial denture supported by natural teeth on either side.
Example sentences: "A temporary bridge can be made so that you cannot see the spaces between the remaining teeth."
5. The part of a string instrument over which the strings are stretched.
Example sentences: "Ebony bridges and fingerboards"
6. A bridge passage or middle eight.
Example sentences: "They write choruses and bridges and songs that last longer than a minute and a half."
7. The support formed by the hand for the forward part of a billiard cue.
Example sentences: "I have been playing pool for almost 5 years and since I have started I have been using an open bridge."
8. An electric circuit with two branches across which a detector or load is connected, used to measure resistance or other property by equalizing the potential across the two ends of a detector, or to rectify an alternating voltage or current.
Example sentences: "The internal harnesses comprise unlabeled black wires terminated at the bridge rectifiers and filter caps."
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Be a bridge over (something)
Example sentences: "A covered walkway that bridged the gardens"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A card game descended from whist, played by two partnerships of two players who at the beginning of each hand bid for the right to name the trump suit, the highest bid also representing a contract to make a specified number of tricks with a specified suit as trumps.
Example sentences: "This is possible because of the trumping rule, which is different from that in whist or bridge."
Synonyms:
footbridge
bridgework
overpass
gangway
bridge deck
roadway
pavement
walkway
lintel
bridge of nose
bridge circuit
span
Derivations:
bridging
Bridget
bridged
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Bridge in Other Languages...
Spanish: Puente
German: Brücke
French: Pont
Italian: Ponte
Turkish: Köprü
