bridge
see also: Bridge
Pronunciation Noun
Bridge
Proper noun
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see also: Bridge
Pronunciation Noun
bridge (plural bridges)
- A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- The rope bridge crosses the river.
(anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose. - Rugby players often break the bridge of their noses.
- (dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
- The dentist pulled out the decayed tooth and put in a bridge.
- (bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- An arch or superstructure.
- (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- The first officer is on the bridge.
- (music, lutherie) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
- Anything supported at the ends and serving 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.
- (wrestling) A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
- (gymnastics) A similar position in gymnastics.
- (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- A connection, real or abstract.
- (medicine) A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
- ECMO is used as a bridge to surgery to stabilize the patient.
- (computing) A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
- This chip is the bridge between the front-side bus and the I/O bus.
- (programming) A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
- 2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful
- The plugin also acts as a bridge with BuddyPress and adds things like the top admin bar, and so on.
- 2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful
- (networking) A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
- The LAN bridge uses a spanning tree algorithm.
- (chemistry) An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
- (electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- (music) A song contained within another song, often demarcated by meter, key, or melody.
- The lyrics in the song's bridge inverted its meaning.
- (graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
- (poetry) A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
- (diplomacy) A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
- A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
- (medicine) A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
- (electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
- A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
- (cycling) The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
- A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
- French: pont
- German: Brücke
- Italian: ponte
- Portuguese: ponte
- Russian: мост
- Spanish: puente, bóveda (El Salvador)
- French: pont
- German: Nasenrücken
- Portuguese: ponte
- Russian: перено́сица
- Spanish: puente
- French: bridge, (Canada) pont
- German: Brücke, Zahnbrücke
- Italian: ponte
- Portuguese: ponte
- Russian: мост
- Spanish: puente
- French: passerelle
- German: Brücke
- Portuguese: passadiço
- Russian: капита́нский мо́стик
- Spanish: puente
- French: pont
- Spanish: pasarela
- Russian: мо́стик
- Italian: ponte
bridge (bridges, present participle bridging; past and past participle bridged)
- To be or make a bridge over something.
- With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge.
- To span as if with a bridge.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, gbooks :
- The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.
- The two groups were able to bridge their differences.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, gbooks :
- (music) To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.
- We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven".
- (computing, communication) To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
- (wrestling) To go to the bridge position.
- German: überbrücken
- German: überbrücken
- Portuguese: superar
- French: fondre
- German: überwechseln
- French: relier
bridge (uncountable)
(card games) A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each. - Bidding is an essential element of the game of bridge.
Bridge
Proper noun
- Surname
- A village in Kent, England.
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