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Bridge

noun

A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.. Synonym: span.

A circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected. Synonym: bridge circuit.

Something resembling a bridge in form or function.

The hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose.

Any of various card games based on whist for four players.

A wooden support that holds the strings up.

A denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth. Synonym: bridgework.

The link between two lenses; rests on the nose. Synonym: nosepiece.

An upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands. Synonym: bridge deck.

verb

(past & past part. bridged; pres. part. bridging)

Connect or reduce the distance between. Synonym: bridge over.

Make a bridge across.

Cross over on a bridge.

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— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams

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— Heads and Tales • Various

... the United States Army, and was both a hospital nurse and a cook, as well as having a natural taste for adventure, went as the personal attendant of Father Zahm. In southern Brazil my son Kermit joined me. He had been bridge building, and a couple of months previously, while on top of a long steel span, something went wrong with the derrick, he and the steel span coming down together on the rocky bed beneath. He escaped with two broken ribs, two teeth knocked out, and ...

— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt

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— Lives of the Poets, Vol. 1 • Samuel Johnson

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