Meaning of bridge in English

bridge

noun

/brɪdʒ/ us

/brɪdʒ/

bridge noun (LARGE STRUCTURE)

a structure that is built over a river, road, or railway to allow people and vehicles to cross from one side to the other:

To get to the restaurant, you need to go over the bridge.

We drove across the bridge.

the Brooklyn Bridge

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C2 [ C usually singular ]

something that makes it easier to make a change from one situation to another:

Part-time work can provide a bridge between staying at home and working full-time.

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The island is joined to the mainland by a road bridge.
The children ran down the bank, over the bridge and along the path.
They're building a new bridge across the river.
A row of reinforced concrete pillars supports the bridge.
The new railway bridge is an incredible sight to behold.

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bridge noun (PART OF A SHIP)

[ C ]

the raised part of a ship on which the captain and other officers stand and from where they control the movement of the ship

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bridge noun (NOSE)

[ C usually singular ]

the top part of the nose, between the eyes, or (on a pair of glasses) the piece that is supported by the top part of the nose:

The blow caught him right on the bridge of his nose.

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The nose

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bridge noun (GAME)

[ U ]

a card game for four players who play in pairs

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Card games

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bridge noun (TEETH)

[ C ]

(also bridgework [ U ])

a piece of material that contains one or more artificial teeth and is kept in place by being fastened to the natural teeth

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Dentistry

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bridge noun (MUSICAL INSTRUMENT)

[ C ]

a small piece of wood over which the strings are stretched on a musical instrument such as a guitar or violin

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Musical instruments

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bridge noun (POSITION)

[ C or U ]

(also bridge pose)

in yoga and other forms of exercise, a position in which you have the back of your head, your shoulders and arms, and your feet on the floor and your hips and knees lifted:

I recommend you warm up thoroughly before doing your bridges.

Bridge pose works your hips and thighs.

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Exercising & training

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bridge noun (SONG PART)

[ C ]

part of a song or piece of music that is played between two other parts that are similar to each other:

the bridge The song is composed of two verses each followed by a chorus, then the bridge, then another verse followed by the chorus.

The lead guitarist improvised an extended solo during the bridge.

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bridge

verb [ T ]

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bridge verb [T] (BRING TOGETHER)

to make the difference or division between two things smaller or less severe:

bridge a gap We must bridge the gap between employees and management.

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Connecting and combining

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bridge verb [T] (BUILD)

to build a bridge over or across something:

The river had been bridged at its narrowest point.

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Building: construction work & workers

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bridge | American Dictionary

bridge

noun

/brɪdʒ/

bridge noun (LARGE STRUCTURE)

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[ C ]

a structure that is built over a river, road, or railroad to allow people and vehicles to cross from one side to the other:

We drove across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan.

bridge noun (NOSE)

[ C usually sing ]

the top part of the nose, between the eyes, or the piece on a pair of glasses that is supported by the top part of the nose:

He rubbed the bridge of his nose.

bridge noun (MUSICAL INSTRUMENT)

[ C ]

a small piece of wood on a musical instrument, such as a guitar or violin, over which strings are stretched

bridge noun (TEETH)

[ C ]

(also bridgework, us/ˈbrɪdʒˌwɜrk/)

a piece of material that keeps artificial teeth in place by being fastened to the natural teeth

bridge noun (PART OF A SHIP)

[ C ]

the raised part of a ship on which the captain and other officers stand and from where they control the movement of the ship

bridge noun (GAME)

[ U ]

a card game for four players who play in two pairs and try to win the cards they say they will win

bridge

verb [ T ]

/brɪdʒ/

bridge verb [T] (BUILD OVER )

to build or form a bridge over something:

The shopping complex bridges a highway.

If a difference is bridged, it is made smaller:

Swing music bridged the gap between popular and classical music.

(Definition of bridge from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

bridge | Business English

bridge

adjective

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( UK usually bridging)

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FINANCE

relating to money that is borrowed for a short period of time, until money is available for a longer period:

bridge fund/finance/financing A group of loyal donors pledged a bridge fund of $20 million to the orchestra.

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Examples of bridge

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On occasions, argumentative bridges have been unable to overcome all resistance from critics and sympathizers.

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Once bridges are specified, others can use this information.

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By learning the concepts and language of another field, scientists can build bridges between disciplines.

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More specifically, the projects include roads, bridges, ports, tolls, customs facilities and telecommunications.

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I doubt, however, that many in either camp would agree that he has bridged the gap.

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Biomolecular dynamics at long timesteps : bridging the time scale gap between simulation and experimentation.

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The proton is suggested to end up at a bridging m-oxo ligand, since this is the most stable position.

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Such ionic bridges can occur both out-of-plane, between two surfaces, and in-plane, on a single surface.

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In regenerative bridges examined between 7-21 days after transection, there was a wide variation in axon maturation.

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Samples are from the tip of the regenerating front of bridges harvested 7 days after section.

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In such cases the overall visual effect of such a character's appearance along the hashigakari is enhanced by the bridge's quality as a 'movement space'.

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Roads and bridges were built and there is now easier contact between places; outsiders and tourists pass through nowadays.

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The author here bridges language with speech and communication.

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If growth is the key, then governments may help both growth and the poor by directing their expenditures to infrastructural projects, especially roads and bridges.

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Such conditions arise from the matching with the solution in thin bridges (56).

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arched bridge

A 1934 project constructed a second arched bridge immediately downstream and connected both bridges with a single deck.

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bridge abutment

Two children, initially unaccounted for, were later found safe under a bridge abutment.

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bridge builder

Yet the bridge builder was actually paid his fee!

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Translations of bridge

in Chinese (Traditional)

大型結構, 橋, 橋樑…

Meaning of bridge in English

bridge noun (LARGE STRUCTURE)

bridge noun (PART OF A SHIP)

bridge noun (NOSE)

bridge noun (GAME)

bridge noun (TEETH)

bridge noun (MUSICAL INSTRUMENT)

bridge noun (POSITION)

bridge noun (SONG PART)

bridge verb [T] (BRING TOGETHER)

bridge verb [T] (BUILD)

bridge | American Dictionary

bridge noun (LARGE STRUCTURE)

bridge noun (NOSE)

bridge noun (MUSICAL INSTRUMENT)

bridge noun (TEETH)

bridge noun (PART OF A SHIP)

bridge noun (GAME)

bridge verb [T] (BUILD OVER )

bridge | Business English

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