bridge

bridge
bridge1
noun
1》 a structure carrying a road, path, or railway across a river, road, etc.
2》 the platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations.
3》 the upper bony part of a person's nose.
4》 a partial denture supported by natural teeth on either side.
5》 Music the part on a stringed instrument over which the strings are stretched.
6》 Music a bridge passage or middle eight.
7》 an electric circuit used chiefly to measure an unknown resistance by equalizing the potentials in two parts of the circuit.
verb
1》 be or make a bridge over.
2》 reduce or eliminate (a difference between two groups).
Derivatives
bridgeable adjective
Origin
OE brycg, of Gmc origin.
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bridge2
noun a card game related to whist, played by two partnerships of two players who at the beginning of each hand bid for the right to name the trump suit, the highest bid also representing a contract to make a specified number of tricks.
Origin
C19: of unknown origin.

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