Definition of Bridge

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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.

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Bridge Quotations

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
Steven Wright

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

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl Nightingale

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
James Dean

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
Jack Paar

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
Haile Gebrselassie

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
Bruce Springsteen

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

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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