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Definition of 'bridge'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) bridge
a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.

2.  bridge
a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route, phase, etc.

3.  bridge
a raised transverse platform from which a power vessel is navigated and that often includes a pilot house.

4.  bridge
the ridge or upper line of the nose.

5.  bridge
the part of a pair of eyeglasses that joins the two lenses and spans the nose.

6.  bridge
an artificial replacement, fixed or removable, of a missing tooth or teeth, supported by adjacent natural teeth or roots.

7.  bridge
a thin fixed wedge or support raising the strings of a musical instrument above the sounding board.

8.  bridge
a transitional modulatory passage connecting sections of a musical composition.

9.  bridge
a transitional passage as in a literary work.

10.  bridge
an electrical circuit or device for measuring resistance, capacitance, inductance, or impedance.

11.  bridge
a gantry over a railroad track for supporting waterspouts, signals, etc.

12.  bridge
the arch formed by the hand and fingers to support the striking end of a billiards or pool cue.

13.  bridge
a notched piece of wood with a long handle used to support the striking end of a cue.

14.  bridge
a gallery or platform that can be raised or lowered over a stage for use by technical crew members.

15.  bridge
a valence bond connecting two parts of a molecule.

16. (v.t.) bridge
to make a bridge or passage over; span.

17.  bridge
to join by or as if by a bridge.

18.  bridge
to make (a way) by a bridge.

19. (adj.) bridge
(esp. of clothing) less expensive than a manufacturer's most expensive products.

20. (n.) bridge
a card game derived from whist in which one partnership plays to fulfill a certain declaration against an opposing partnership.

Etymology: (1885–90; earlier also sp. britch, biritch; of obscure orig.)

Definition of 'bridge'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) bridge, span
a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

2. (noun) bridge, bridge circuit
a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected

3. (noun) bridge
something resembling a bridge in form or function
"his letters provided a bridge across the centuries"

4. (noun) bridge
the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose
"her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose"

5. (noun) bridge
any of various card games based on whist for four players

6. (noun) bridge
a wooden support that holds the strings up

7. (noun) bridge, bridgework
a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth

8. (noun) bridge, nosepiece
the link between two lenses; rests on the nose

9. (verb) bridge, bridge deck
an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands

10. (verb) bridge, bridge over
connect or reduce the distance between

11. (verb) bridge
make a bridge across
"bridge a river"

12. (verb) bridge
cross over on a bridge

Definition of 'bridge'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) bridge
a structure built over a river, road, etc. to cross it
to cross the bridge; ***a bridge over the river

2. bridge
sth that helps to connect two different things
a bridge between science and religion

3. bridge
the bony upper part of the nose
***the bridge of her nose

4. (verb) bridge
to decrease differences or difficulties
***to help prisoners bridge the gap between prison and life outside

Definition of 'bridge'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) bridge
a structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other

2. (noun) bridge
anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed

3. (noun) bridge
the small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument

4. (noun) bridge
a device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit

5. (noun) bridge
a low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall

6. (verb) bridge
to build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river

7. (verb) bridge
to open or make a passage, as by a bridge

8. (verb) bridge
to find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over

Definition of 'bridge'

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

1. bridge
(a) A special bar of copper connecting the dynamos to the bus wire, q. v., in electric lighting or power stations.

(b) Wheatstone's bridge, q. v., and its many modifications, all of which may be consulted throughout these pages.

Translation of 'bridge'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a structure carrying a road or railway over a river etc.
Afrikaans: brug	Arabic: جِسْر	Bulgarian: мост
Brazilian: ponte	Czech: most	German: die Brücke
Danish: bro	Greek: γέφυρα	Spanish: puente
Estonian: sild	Farsi: پل	Finnish: silta
French: pont	Hebrew: גֶשֶר	Hindi: सेतु
Croatian: most	Hungarian: híd	Indonesian: jembatan
Icelandic: brú	Italian: ponte	Japanese: 橋
Korean: 교량	Lithuanian: tiltas	Latvian: tilts
Malay: jambatan	Dutch: brug	Norwegian: bru
Polish: most	Persian: پل	Pashto: پل
Portuguese: ponte	Romanian: pod	Russian: мост
Slovak: most	Slovenian: most	Serbian: most
Swedish: bro	Thai: สะพาน	Turkish: köprü
Taiwanese: 橋	Ukrainian: міст	Urdu: پُل
Vietnamese: cái cầu	Chinese: 桥
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