Definitions for Bridge

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Bridge bridge

Spelling: [brij]

IPA: /brɪdʒ/

Bridge is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in Bridge (bdegir).

Definitions for Bridge

noun

1. a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
2. a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or phase between two adjacent elements, activities, conditions, or the like:
3. Nautical. a raised transverse platform from which a power vessel is navigated: often includes a pilot house and a chart house. any of various other raised platforms from which the navigation or docking of a vessel is supervised. a bridge house or bridge superstructure. a raised walkway running fore-and-aft.
4. Anatomy. the ridge or upper line of the nose.
5. Dentistry. an artificial replacement, fixed or removable, of a missing tooth or teeth, supported by natural teeth or roots adjacent to the space.
6. Music. a thin, fixed wedge or support raising the strings of a musical instrument above the sounding board. a transitional, modulatory passage connecting sections of a composition or movement. (in jazz and popular music) the contrasting third group of eight bars in a thirty-two-bar chorus; channel; release.
7. Also, bridge passage. a passage in a literary work or a scene in a play serving as a movement between two other passages or scenes of greater importance.
8. Ophthalmology. the part of a pair of eyeglasses that joins the two lenses and rests on the bridge or sides of the nose.
9. Also called bridge circuit. Electricity. a two-branch network, including a measuring device, as a galvanometer, in which the unknown resistance, capacitance, inductance, or impedance of one component can be measured by balancing the voltage in each branch and computing the unknown value from the known values of the other components. Compare Wheatstone bridge.
10. Railroads. a gantry over a track or tracks for supporting waterspouts, signals, etc.
11. Building Trades. a scaffold built over a sidewalk alongside a construction or demolition site to protect pedestrians and motor traffic from falling materials.
12. Metallurgy. a ridge or wall-like projection of fire brick or the like, at each end of the hearth in a metallurgical furnace. any layer of partially fused or densely compacted material preventing the proper gravitational movement of molten material, as in a blast furnace or cupola, or the proper compacting of metal powder in a mold.
13. (in a twist drill) the conoid area between the flutes at the drilling end.
14. Billiards, Pool. the arch formed by the hand and fingers to support and guide the striking end of a cue. a notched piece of wood with a long handle, used to support the striking end of the cue when the hand cannot do so comfortably; rest.
15. transitional music, commentary, dialogue, or the like, between two parts of a radio or television program.
16. Theater. a gallery or platform that can be raised or lowered over a stage and is used by technicians, stagehands, etc., for painting scenery (paint bridge) arranging and supporting lights (light bridge) or the like. British. a part of the floor of a stage that can be raised or lowered.
17. Horology. a partial plate, supported at both ends, holding bearings on the side opposite the dial. Compare cock1 (def 10).
18. Chemistry. a valence bond illustrating the connection of two parts of a molecule.
19. a support or prop, usually timber, for the roof of a mine, cave, etc.
20. any arch or rooflike figure formed by acrobats, dancers, etc., as by joining and raising hands.
21. a game derived from whist in which one partnership plays to fulfill a certain declaration against an opposing partnership acting as defenders. Compare auction bridge, contract (def 5).

Idioms

1. burn one's bridges (behind one), to eliminate all possibilities of retreat; make one's decision irrevocable:

adjective

1. (especially of clothing) less expensive than a manufacturer's most expensive products:

verb (used with object)

1. to make a bridge or passage over; span:
2. to join by or as if by a bridge:
3. to make (a way) by a bridge.

verb (used without object)

1. Foundry. (of molten metal) to form layers or areas heterogeneous either in material or in degree of hardness.

Origin of Bridge

before 1000; Middle English brigge, Old English brycg; cognate with Dutch brug, German Brücke; akin to Old Norse bryggja pier

Examples for Bridge

The Afghan Army maintains a small check-point on the Kandigal side of the bridge.

Between Him and me there was an incalculable distance which He could bridge but I could not.

At the end of their call, the kid told Becker he would still walk over the bridge, but from now on would not look down.

The bridge was tremulous beneath me, and marked the tremor of the solid earth.

At the bridge they met the British infantry, who gave them a volley.

Linsker initially escaped after the clash on the bridge but was arrested a short time later.

If he had known it, it was with the Dance of Death on the bridge of Lucerne.

But there was also the liberty to consider of those people who wanted to use the bridge to get home.

At one point Schettino admitted that bringing passengers up to the bridge was a common occurrence.

There was now but "one wide river to cross," and the cars rolled on to the bridge.