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US
/ˈbɹɪdʒ/
]
[ UK /bɹˈɪdʒ/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈɪdʒ/ ]
VERB
- connect or reduce the distance between
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make a bridge across
bridge a river - cross over on a bridge
NOUN
- an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands
- the link between two lenses; rests on the nose
- a wooden support that holds the strings up
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the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose
her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose -
something resembling a bridge in form or function
his letters provided a bridge across the centuries - any of various card games based on whist for four players
- a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected
- a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
How To Use bridge In A Sentence
- On the moor, we crossed becks bridged by railway sleepers and bulging with pondweed and we met a couple of cyclists.
- Their models are forts and castles, moats and drawbridges.
- Cousin Molle goes to Cambridge and the niece is the only visitor. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
- Avoiding tripping over the lines on deck, you then have to quant your boat through the bridge. Times, Sunday Times
- So, the system of existential graphs actually requires three dimensions for its representations, although the third dimension in which the torus is embedded can usually be represented in two dimensions by the use of pictorial devices that Peirce called “fornices” or “tunnel-bridges” and by the use of identificational devices that Peirce called Nobody Knows Nothing
- Just before Chiswick Bridge he suddenly wrenched the wheel round to the right. Times, Sunday Times
- An attempt will be made to identify best practice, to help bridge the gap between theoretical prescriptions and practical modelling procedures.
- A new train station and a footbridge across the river are also part of the project, which aims to rejuvenate the riverside area.
- This nifty little thriller opens with the arresting image of a nebbishy accountant being dangled over the side of a bridge.
- Surrounded by cottonwoods and aspens and featuring a wooden footbridge and an abundance of regional flora and foliage, it's a place to meditate, contemplate, and relax.
