Bridge
[brɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) any of various card games based on whist for four players.
(noun.) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc..
(noun.) an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands.
(noun.) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose.
(noun.) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth.
(noun.) a wooden support that holds the strings up.
(noun.) a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected.
(noun.) the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose; 'her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose'.
(noun.) something resembling a bridge in form or function; 'his letters provided a bridge across the centuries'.
(verb.) make a bridge across; 'bridge a river'.
(verb.) cross over on a bridge.
(verb.) connect or reduce the distance between.
Editor: Stu--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
(n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
(v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
(v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
(v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.
Checker: Roland
Definition
n. a modification of whist in which the dealer does not turn up the last card but has the option (which he may pass to his partner) of declaring which suit shall be trumps.
n. a structure raised across a river &c. or anything like such: the narrow raised platform whence the captain of a steamer gives directions: a thin upright piece of wood supporting the strings in a violin or similar instrument.—v.t. to build a bridge over.—n. Bridge′-head a fortification covering the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy's position.—adj. Bridge′less without a bridge.—n. Bridge′-of-boats a bridge resting on boats moored abreast across a piece of water.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a long bridge dilapidated, and mysteriously winding into darkness, profound melancholy over the loss of dearest possessions and dismal situations will fall upon you. To the young and those in love, disappointment in the heart's fondest hopes, as the loved one will fall below your ideal. To cross a bridge safely, a final surmounting of difficulties, though the means seem hardly safe to use. Any obstacle or delay denotes disaster. To see a bridge give way before you, beware of treachery and false admirers. Affluence comes with clear waters. Sorrowful returns of best efforts are experienced after looking upon or coming in contact with muddy or turbid water in dreams.
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Examples
- He knew how to blow any sort of bridge that you could name and he had blown them of all sizes and constructions. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Thou wilt blow no bridge here. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- On a night like this it would be nothing to take the posts and blow the bridge and it would all be over and done with. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Now walk back with me to the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Thou art with us now and in favor of this of the bridge? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- It was given to me, Comrade General, by an _Ingl閟_ named Roberto who had come to us as a dynamiter for this of the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- There have been about 1,000 patents granted for bridges, about 2,500 for excavating apparatus, and about 1,500 for hydraulic engineering. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- All the bridges over these had been destroyed, and the rails taken up and twisted by the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- That bridge, though of different material, was in its principle of construction similar to the iron tubular bridges at Conway and at the Menai Straits. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- There was, consequently, a delay of some four days in building bridges out of the remains of the old railroad bridge. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He got upon that road, destroyed its bridges at different places and rendered the road useless to the enemy up to within a few miles of Lynchburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Let us blow all the bridges there are here and get out. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Men made bridges before there was a science of bridge-building; they cured disease before they knew medicine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The man to whom Pilar spoke was short and heavy, brownfaced, with broad cheekbones; gray haired, with wide-set yellowbrown eyes, a thin-bridged, hooked nose like an Indian's, a long Upper lip and a wide, thin mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The barriers between Africa, Asia, and Europe were lowered or bridged by that time, but mixing had not gone far. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A speculator bridged a couple of barrels with a board and we hired standing places on it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The natural difficulties of the first lines were increased a hundredfold, greater marshes had to be crossed, greater streams to be bridged, greater hills to be tunneled. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- They were rapidly bridged in the same manner as those previously encountered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Hellespont was bridged at Abydos, and upon a hill was set a marble throne from which Xerxes surveyed the whole array of his forces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Other authors have thus hypothetically bridged over every ocean, and united almost every island with some mainland. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is such tremendous trifles, not the climbing of mountains and the bridging of chasms, that make the transcontinental line one of the wonders of the ages. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Four bridges had to be built across bayous, two of them each over six hundred feet long, making about two thousand feet of bridging in all. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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