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Definition of Bridge

Bridge A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other. Anything supported at the ends, which serves 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. The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall. To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river. To open or make a passage, as by a bridge. To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over. A card game resembling whist. Related Definitions: An, And, Angles, Anything, Arch, As, At, Bank, Bar, Body, Brick, Bridge, Build, By, Called, Card, Chamber, Chasm, Circuit, Conductor, Conveyed, Course, Deflecting, Device, Difficulty, Electric, Engraving, Erected, Find, Fire, Flame, For, Forming, From, Furnace, Game, Generally, Getting, Guitar, In, Instrument, Iron, Is, Keep, Low, Make, Measure, Object, Of, On, One, Open, Or, Other, Over, Part, Partition, Passage, Passageway, Platform, Railroad, Raise, Resembling, Resistance, Resting, Right, River, Serving, Small, Some, Something, Spanned, Staging, Stone, Structure, Supported, The, Their, Them, Thing, To, Transmit, Upon, Vertical, Violin, Wall, Water, Way, Which, Whist, Wire, With, Wood

Bridge Quotations He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau We will burn that bridge when we come to it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same. Mason Cooley Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next. Andy Goldsworthy

Bridge Translations bridge in Afrikaans is brug bridge in Danish is bro bridge in Dutch is brug, commandobrug bridge in Finnish is silta bridge in French is carpette bridge in Italian is ponte bridge in Latin is pons pontis bridge in Norwegian is bro bridge in Portuguese is ponte bridge in Spanish is puente

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