bridge

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bridge
brɪdʒ Listen
Meanings
noun
  • a structure carrying a road, path, railway, etc. across a river, road, or other obstacle.
    E.g. a bridge across the River Thames
  • the elevated, enclosed platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations.
    E.g. Talbot stepped across the two gunwales and made his way up to the bridge
  • the upper bony part of a person's nose.
    E.g. he pushed his spectacles further up the bridge of his nose
  • a partial denture supported by natural teeth on either side.
  • the part of a stringed instrument over which the strings are stretched.
    E.g. ebony bridges and fingerboards
  • a bridge passage or middle eight.
  • the support for the tip of a billiard cue formed by the hand.
  • 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.
verb
  • be or make a bridge over (something).
    E.g. a covered walkway bridged the gardens
noun
  • a card game related to 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.

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