bridge
桥梁,桥,大桥,桥牌
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- : a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like.
- : a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or phase between two adjacent elements, activities, conditions, or the like: Working at the hospital was a bridge between medical school and private practice.
- : Nautical. a raised transverse platform from which a power vessel is navigated: often includes a pilot house and a chart house.any of various other raised platforms from which the navigation or docking of a vessel is supervised.a bridge house or bridge superstructure.a raised walkway running fore-and-aft.
- : Anatomy. the ridge or upper line of the nose.
- : Dentistry. an artificial replacement, fixed or removable, of a missing tooth or teeth, supported by natural teeth or roots adjacent to the space.
- : Music. a thin, fixed wedge or support raising the strings of a musical instrument above the sounding board.a transitional, modulatory passage connecting sections of a composition or movement. the contrasting third group of eight bars in a thirty-two-bar chorus; channel; release.
- : Also bridge passage . a passage in a literary work or a scene in a play serving as a movement between two other passages or scenes of greater importance.
- : Ophthalmology. the part of a pair of eyeglasses that joins the two lenses and rests on the bridge or sides of the nose.
- : Also called bridge circuit .Electricity. a two-branch network, including a measuring device, as a galvanometer, in which the unknown resistance, capacitance, inductance, or impedance of one component can be measured by balancing the voltage in each branch and computing the unknown value from the known values of the other components.Compare Wheatstone bridge.
- : Railroads. a gantry over a track or tracks for supporting waterspouts, signals, etc.
- : Building Trades. a scaffold built over a sidewalk alongside a construction or demolition site to protect pedestrians and motor traffic from falling materials.
- : Metallurgy. a ridge or wall-like projection of fire brick or the like, at each end of the hearth in a metallurgical furnace.any layer of partially fused or densely compacted material preventing the proper gravitational movement of molten material, as in a blast furnace or cupola, or the proper compacting of metal powder in a mold.
- : the conoid area between the flutes at the drilling end.
- : Billiards, Pool. the arch formed by the hand and fingers to support and guide the striking end of a cue.a notched piece of wood with a long handle, used to support the striking end of the cue when the hand cannot do so comfortably; rest.
- : transitional music, commentary, dialogue, or the like, between two parts of a radio or television program, podcast, or other broadcast.
- : Theater. a gallery or platform that can be raised or lowered over a stage and is used by technicians, stagehands, etc., for painting scenery , arranging and supporting lights , or the like.British.a part of the floor of a stage that can be raised or lowered.
- : Horology. a partial plate, supported at both ends, holding bearings on the side opposite the dial.Compare cock.
- : Chemistry. a valence bond illustrating the connection of two parts of a molecule.
- : a support or prop, usually timber, for the roof of a mine, cave, etc.
- : any arch or rooflike figure formed by acrobats, dancers, etc., as by joining and raising hands.
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bridged, bridg·ing.
- : to make a bridge or passage over; span: The road bridged the river.
- : to join by or as if by a bridge: a fallen tree bridging the two porches.
- : to make by a bridge.
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bridged, bridg·ing.
- : Foundry. to form layers or areas heterogeneous either in material or in degree of hardness.
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- : less expensive than a manufacturer's most expensive products: showing his bridge line for the fall season.
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It’s over 10 years old, employs more than 150 people, and successfully bridged the Series A gap in Europe closing a round of $20M back in 2018.
Investments into entrepreneurs in disenfranchised communities provide a crucial path for creating lasting positive change, and the Opportunity Zone legislation builds bridges for such investment.
The freeway to San Francisco will need to be raised, and to the east, a new bridge will be required to connect the community of Point Richmond to the city of Berkeley.
Although Firestein explains that Newton’s laws of motion are “great for launching satellites and building bridges, his idea about how gravity works was wrong.”
Of course, it’s harder to get to know people in this age of social distancing, but fortunately, the Internet is a handy tool you can use to bridge those gaps.
His most recent assignment was the 84th Precinct, at the Brooklyn end of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The same night the “dead cops” chant was recorded, two police officers were attacked on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Today, the train chugs north out of Kanchanaburi over the famous bridge before it hits a spectacular bend in the river.
Linsker initially escaped after the clash on the bridge but was arrested a short time later.
“The golden bridge for the departing lover I have always, I hope, provided when it became necessary,” he says.
The engineer officer charged with preparing the line of retreat reported that the one bridge across the Elster was not sufficient.
It was a direct lie to tell the Austrian commander that an armistice had been arranged and the bridge ceded to the French.
The ruse by which he and Lannes captured the bridge below Vienna was discreditable no doubt from the point of view of morality.
"There is a bridge up yonder, monsieur," returned the servant, thankful to have the conversation changed.
They crossed the bridge and rode up the gently rising, bare, and rugged ground towards Condillac.