bridge
noun
[ brɪdʒ ]
• a structure carrying a road, path, railway, etc. across a river, road, or other obstacle.
• "a bridge across the River Thames"
• the elevated, enclosed platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations.
• "Talbot stepped across the two gunwales and made his way up to the bridge"
• the upper bony part of a person's nose.
• "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.
• "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.
bridge
verb
• be or make a bridge over (something).
• "a covered walkway bridged the gardens"
Similar:
span,
cross,
cross over,
go over,
pass over,
extend across,
reach across,
traverse,
arch over,
Origin:
Old English brycg (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch brug and German Brücke .
bridge
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.
Origin:
late 19th century: of unknown origin.
build bridges
• promote friendly relations between groups.
• "the challenge for all politicians now is to build bridges between communities"
