bridge
English
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Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”).
The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
The musical connection sense is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.
Noun
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bridge (plural bridges)
- A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- The rope bridge crosses the river.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
- (anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
- Rugby players often break the bridge of their noses.
- (dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
- The dentist pulled out the decayed tooth and put in a bridge.
- (bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- An arch or superstructure.
- (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- The first officer is on the bridge.
- (music, lutherie) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
- Anything supported at the ends and serving 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.
- (wrestling) A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
- (gymnastics) A similar position in gymnastics.
- (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- A connection, real or abstract.
- 1964, Harry S. Truman, 0:18 from the start, in MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
- Yes, France is geographically situated in a key position so far as Western Europe is concerned. They are really the bridge between Germany, Spain and Italy. And it was necessary to have a NATO organization that was unified and France was a necessary member of that organization.
- (medicine) A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
- ECMO is used as a bridge to surgery to stabilize the patient.
- (computing) A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
- This chip is the bridge between the front-side bus and the I/O bus.
- (programming) A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
- 2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful:
- The plugin also acts as a bridge with BuddyPress and adds things like the top admin bar, and so on.
- (networking) A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
- The LAN bridge uses a spanning tree algorithm.
- (physical chemistry) An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
- (electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- (music) A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
- The lyrics in the song's bridge inverted its meaning.
- In the bridge of his 2011 song "It Will Rain", Bruno Mars begs his lover not to "say goodbye."
- (graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
- (poetry) A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
- (diplomacy) A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
- A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
- (biology) In turtles, the connection between the plastron and the carapace.
- (electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
- A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
- (cycling) The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
- A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
- (roller derby) An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
- (card games) A form of cheating by which a card is cut by previously curving it by pressure of the hand.
Derived terms
[edit]- a bridge too far
- Acton Bridge
- aerobridge
- air bridge
- airbridge
- Apperley Bridge
- Appley Bridge
- arch bridge
- Armitage Bridge
- auction bridge
- Avonbridge
- Bailey bridge
- Ballsbridge
- Bamber Bridge
- Banbridge
- bascule bridge
- Bason Bridge
- Beitbridge
- bicycle bridge
- Biffin's bridge
- bikini bridge
- Blythe Bridge
- Bonar Bridge
- Boroughbridge
- bowstring bridge
- bridgable
- bridgeable
- bridge and tunnel
- bridge-and-tunnel
- bridge-and-tunneler
- bridgeboard
- bridge-builder
- bridgebuilding
- bridge bunny
- bridge coat
- Bridge End, Bridgend
- Bridgeford
- Bridgegate
- bridgekeeper
- bridgeless
- bridgelike
- bridgeline
- bridge loan
- bridgemaster
- bridge mount
- bridgeness
- Bridge of Allan
- Bridge of Cally
- Bridge of Don
- Bridge of Dun
- Bridge of Earn
- bridge of no return
- Bridge of Orchy
- Bridge of Weir
- bridge over troubled waters
- bridge pattern
- bridge plug
- bridger
- Bridger
- bridge railing
- bridge roll
- bridge route
- bridge spider
- bridge strike
- bridgetender
- bridge the gap
- Bridgetown
- bridgetree
- bridgeward
- bridge-ward
- bridgewards
- Bridgewater
- bridge whist
- bridge wire
- bridgewire
- bridgework
- bridgey
- brouter
- build a bridge and get over it
- build bridges
- Buridan's bridge
- Burn Bridge
- burn one's bridges
- burn that bridge when one comes to it
- Burscough Bridge
- bus bridge
- cable-stayed bridge
- Cameron Bridge
- Carronbridge
- catenary bridge
- Catterick Bridge
- Central Bridge
- chain bridge
- clapper bridge
- Clayton Bridge
- Conon Bridge
- contract bridge
- covered bridge
- cross a bridge before one comes to it
- crossbridge
- cross that bridge when one comes to it
- cross that bridge when one gets there
- cross that bridge when one gets to it
- cyberbridge
- deck bridge
- Devil's Bridge
- disulfide bridge
- drawbridge
- draw-bridge
- draw bridge
- Dunbridge
- Dunford Bridge
- Dunsop Bridge
- duplicate bridge
- Einstein-Rosen bridge
- ER bridge
- Ewood Bridge
- Fenny Bridges
- floating bridge
- flybridge
- flying bridge
- footbridge
- fore-bridge
- forebridge
- frame bridge
- glute bridge
- Gorebridge
- Great Bridge
- green bridge
- Greta Bridge
- Guide Bridge
- hand bridge
- Haydon Bridge
- Heap Bridge
- Hebden Bridge
- Helwith Bridge
- hoist bridge
- Horns Bridge
- Hubberts Bridge
- humpback bridge
- Hunton Bridge
- ice bridge
- if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it
- I have a bridge to sell you
- Ironbridge
- Islandbridge
- Ivybridge
- jet bridge
- Kelvin bridge
- Kerne Bridge
- land bridge
- lattice bridge
- Lea Bridge
- leaf bridge
- leg bridge
- London Bridge
- low bridge
- Mabey bridge
- Maguiresbridge
- Malin Bridge
- Marple Bridge
- Maryland bridge
- Maxwell bridge
- media bridge
- Menai Bridge
- microbridge
- monkey bridge
- movable bridge
- multibridge
- Murray Bridge
- Mylor Bridge
- nanobridge
- Nethy Bridge
- Newby Bridge
- Newnham Bridge
- nonbridge
- northbridge
- Norton Bridge
- nose bridge
- oblique bridge
- occupation bridge
- Øresund Bridge
- Oresund Bridge
- Öresund Bridge
- over bridge
- overbridge
- overhead bridge restaurant
- packhorse bridge
- paint bridge
- Park Bridge
- Pateley Bridge
- pivot bridge
- platform bridge
- pontoon bridge
- Pooley Bridge
- Pye Bridge
- rainbow bridge
- rebridge
- Redbridge
- road bridge, roadbridge
- rope bridge
- royal auction bridge
- Roybridge, Roy Bridge
- rubber bridge
- Rumbling Bridge
- salt bridge
- Sankey Bridges
- Schering bridge
- Sennybridge
- Shotley Bridge
- signal bridge
- skew bridge
- skybridge
- sleep under the same bridge
- Smithy Bridge
- southbridge
- Sowerby Bridge
- space bridge
- Spean Bridge
- speedbridge
- Spences Bridge
- Stalybridge
- Stamford Bridge
- Stanford Bridge
- Steen's Bridge
- Stonebridge
- Stourbridge
- straight bridge
- Sunderland Bridge
- suspension bridge
- Sutton Bridge
- swing bridge, swingbridge
- Teignbridge
- telebridge
- Three Bridges
- through bridge
- toll bridge
- Tower Bridge
- transporter bridge
- trestle bridge
- truss bridge
- unbridgeable
- underbridge
- vertical-lift bridge
- Victoria Bridge
- Vierendeel bridge
- Wadebridge
- Wadsley Bridge
- water bridge
- water under the bridge
- weighbridge
- Wentbridge
- Weybridge
- Whaley Bridge
- Wheatstone bridge
- Wien bridge
- wildlife bridge
- wire bridge
- Wisemans Bridge
- Wootton Bridge
Translations
[edit]construction or natural feature that spans a divide
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(anatomy) bony ridge of the nose
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(dentistry) replacement for teeth
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(nautical) platform above the upper deck
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(music, lutherie) piece on string instruments
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(computing) device which connects computer buses
(chemistry) intermolecular valence bond
(graph theory) edge
Verb
[edit]bridge (third-person singular simple present bridges, present participle bridging, simple past and past participle bridged)
- To be or make a bridge over something.
- With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge.
- 1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
- On this occasion, the damage was far more serious. The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct.
- To span as if with a bridge.
- The two groups were able to bridge their differences.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28:
- The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.
- (music) To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.
- We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven".
- (computing, communication) To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
- (wrestling) To go to the bridge position.
- (roller derby) To employ the bridge tactic. (See Noun section.)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to make a bridge
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to span as if with a bridge
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music: to transition from one piece or section to another
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computing, communication: to connect with a bridge
wrestling: to go to the bridge position
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Etymology 2
[edit]From the earlier game biritch, probably from Russian бирю́ч (birjúč) or бири́ч (biríč); else from Turkish bir-üç (“one-three”).[1][2]
Noun
[edit]bridge (uncountable)
- (card games) A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
- Bidding is an essential element of the game of bridge.
Translations
[edit]card game
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References
[edit]- ^ "bridge." *OED 2nd edition. 1989. (online)
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “bridge”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Basque
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge ?
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Catalan
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[edit]bridge m (plural bridges)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Danish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge c (singular definite bridgen, not used in plural form)
Declension
[edit]Declension of bridge
| common gender |
Singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | bridge | bridgen |
| genitive | bridges | bridgens |
Dutch
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge n (uncountable)
- bridge (card game)
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[edit]Faroese
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge ?
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Finnish
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[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbridɡe/, [ˈbridɡe̞]
- IPA(key): /ˈbridʒ/, [ˈbridʒ]
- Rhymes: -idɡe
- Hyphenation(key): brid‧ge
Noun
[edit]bridge
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of bridge (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | bridge | bridget | |
| genitive | bridgen | bridgejen | |
| partitive | bridgeä | bridgejä | |
| illative | bridgeen | bridgeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | bridge | bridget | |
| accusative | nom. | bridge | bridget |
| gen. | bridgen | ||
| genitive | bridgen | bridgejen bridgein rare | |
| partitive | bridgeä | bridgejä | |
| inessive | bridgessä | bridgeissä | |
| elative | bridgestä | bridgeistä | |
| illative | bridgeen | bridgeihin | |
| adessive | bridgellä | bridgeillä | |
| ablative | bridgeltä | bridgeiltä | |
| allative | bridgelle | bridgeille | |
| essive | bridgenä | bridgeinä | |
| translative | bridgeksi | bridgeiksi | |
| abessive | bridgettä | bridgeittä | |
| instructive | — | bridgein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “bridge”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French
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[edit]bridge m (uncountable)
Further reading
[edit]- “bridge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
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[edit]bridge (first-person possessive bridgeku, second-person possessive bridgemu, third-person possessive bridgenya)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Italian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge m (invariable)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ bridge in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Limburgish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge ?
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Norwegian Bokmål
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge m (definite singular bridgen, uncountable)
- bridge (card game)
References
[edit]- “bridge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge m (definite singular bridgen, uncountable)
References
[edit]- “bridge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English bridge.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]bridge m (uncountable)
Romanian
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English bridge.
Noun
[edit]bridge n (plural bridge-uri)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
- a game of bridge
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | bridge | bridge-ul | bridge-uri | bridge-urile | |
| genitive-dative | bridge | bridge-ului | bridge-uri | bridge-urilor | |
| vocative | bridge-ule | bridge-urilor | |||
Saterland Frisian
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[edit]bridge ? (plural [please provide])
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Sicilian
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge ?
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Spanish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge m (uncountable)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Further reading
[edit]- “bridge”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English.
Noun
[edit]bridge c
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Declension
[edit]Declension of bridge
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | bridge | bridges |
| definite | bridgen | bridgens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — | |
Derived terms
[edit]Welsh
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bridge m
- (card games) bridge (card game)
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