bridge

Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- enPR: brĭj, МФА(кључ): /bɹɪd͡ʒ/
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Etymology 1
From Средњи Енглески brigge, from Стари Енглески brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Пра-Индо-Европски *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”).
Cognate with Шкотски brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Холандски brug (“bridge”), Немачки Brücke (“bridge”), Дански bro (“bridge”) and brygge (“wharf”), Исландски brú (“bridge”) and brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”), Српско-Хрватски brv (“bridge, crossbar”), Old Church Slavonic бръвъно (brŭvŭno, “beam”) and Руски бревно́ (brevnó, “log”).
The verb is from Средњи Енглески briggen, from Стари Енглески brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Холандски bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken).
Noun



bridge (plural bridges)
- A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- The rope bridge crosses the river.
- Шаблон:RQ:Churchill Celebrity
- 2013 јун 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, strana 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
- (anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
- Rugby players often break the bridge of their noses.
- (dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
- The dentist pulled out the decayed tooth and put in a bridge.
- (bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
- A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
- An arch or superstructure.
- (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- The first officer is on the bridge.
- (music, lutherie) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
- Anything supported at the ends and serving 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.
- (wrestling) A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
- (gymnastics) A similar position in gymnastics.
- (nautical) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
- A connection, real or abstract.
- 1964, Truman, Harry S., MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162, 0:18 from the start:
- Yes, France is geographically situated in a key position so far as Western Europe is concerned. They are really the bridge between Germany, Spain and Italy. And it was necessary to have a NATO organization that was unified and France was a necessary member of that organization.
- (medicine) A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
- ECMO is used as a bridge to surgery to stabilize the patient.
- (computing) A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.
- This chip is the bridge between the front-side bus and the I/O bus.
- (programming) A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
- 2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful
- The plugin also acts as a bridge with BuddyPress and adds things like the top admin bar, and so on.
- 2011, Thord Daniel Hedengren, Smashing WordPress Themes: Making WordPress Beautiful
- (networking) A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
- The LAN bridge uses a spanning tree algorithm.
- (chemistry) An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
- (electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
- (music) A contrasting section within a song that prepares for the return of the original material section.
- The lyrics in the song's bridge inverted its meaning.
- In the bridge of his 2011 song "It Will Rain", Bruno Mars begs his lover not to "say goodbye."
- (graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
- (poetry) A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
- (diplomacy) A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
- A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
- (electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
- A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
- (cycling) The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
- A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
- (roller derby) An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
Derived terms
- Acton Bridge
- Apperley Bridge
- Appley Bridge
- Avonbridge
- Bailey bridge
- Bamber Bridge
- Banbridge
- Bason Bridge
- Beitbridge
- Blythe Bridge
- Bonar Bridge
- bowstring bridge
- Bridge End, Bridgend
- bridge loan
- bridge mount
- Bridge of Allan
- Bridge of Dun
- Bridge of Earn
- Bridge of Orchy
- Bridge of Weir
- bridge over troubled waters
- bridge route
- bridge strike
- bridge the gap
- build bridges
- burn one's bridges
- Burscough Bridge
- Cameron Bridge
- Carronbridge
- Clayton Bridge
- Conon Bridge
- covered bridge
- cross that bridge when one comes to it
- Devil's Bridge
- drawbridge
- Dunbridge
- Dunford Bridge
- footbridge
- Gorebridge
- Great Bridge
- Greta Bridge
- Guide Bridge
- Haydon Bridge
- Heap Bridge
- Hebden Bridge
- Helwith Bridge
- Horns Bridge
- Hubberts Bridge
- humpback bridge
- ice bridge
- Ironbridge
- Ivybridge
- Kelvin bridge
- land bridge
- Lea Bridge
- London Bridge
- low bridge
- Maguiresbridge
- Malin Bridge
- Maryland bridge
- Menai Bridge
- Murray Bridge
- Mylor Bridge
- Nethy Bridge
- Newby Bridge
- Newnham Bridge
- Norton Bridge
- Park Bridge
- Pooley Bridge
- Pye Bridge
- road bridge, roadbridge
- Roybridge, Roy Bridge
- Rumbling Bridge
- Schering bridge
- Sennybridge
- signal bridge
- Smithy Bridge
- Sowerby Bridge
- Spean Bridge
- Spences Bridge
- Stamford Bridge
- Stourbridge
- suspension bridge
- Sutton Bridge
- swing bridge, swingbridge
- Three Bridges
- Tower Bridge
- underbridge
- vertical-lift bridge
- Wadebridge
- Wadsley Bridge
- water under the bridge
- Weybridge
- Whaley Bridge
- Wheatstone bridge
- Wien bridge
- Wootton Bridge
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Verb
bridge (third-person singular simple present bridges, present participle bridgeing, simple past and past participle bridgeed)
- To be or make a bridge over something.
- With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge.
- To span as if with a bridge.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, Шаблон:gbooks:
- The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.
- The two groups were able to bridge their differences.
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, Шаблон:gbooks:
- (music) To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.
- We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven".
- (computing, communication) To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
- (wrestling) To go to the bridge position.
- (roller derby) To employ the bridge tactic. (See Noun section.)
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Etymology 2
From the earlier form (name of an older card game) biritch, probably from Руски бири́ч (biríč) (per the OED), or else from Турски bir-üç, "one-three".[1][2]
Noun
bridge (uncountable)
- (card games) A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
- Bidding is an essential element of the game of bridge.
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References
Anagrams
Basque
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Noun
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Noun
bridge m (plural bridges)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bridge c (singular definite bridgen, not used in plural form)
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Pronunciation
- МФА(кључ): /brɪdʒ/ (/r/ may be realised as [ɹ])
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Noun
bridge n (uncountable)
- bridge (card game)
Derived terms
Related terms
Faroese
Etymology
Noun
bridge ?
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bridge
- (card games) bridge
Declension
Inflection of bridge (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | bridge | bridget | |
genitive | bridgen | bridgejen | |
partitive | bridgeä | bridgejä | |
illative | bridgeen | bridgeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | bridge | bridget | |
accusative | nom. | bridge | bridget |
gen. | bridgen | ||
genitive | bridgen | bridgejen bridgeinrare | |
partitive | bridgeä | bridgejä | |
inessive | bridgessä | bridgeissä | |
elative | bridgestä | bridgeistä | |
illative | bridgeen | bridgeihin | |
adessive | bridgellä | bridgeillä | |
ablative | bridgeltä | bridgeiltä | |
allative | bridgelle | bridgeille | |
essive | bridgenä | bridgeinä | |
translative | bridgeksi | bridgeiksi | |
instructive | — | bridgein | |
abessive | bridgettä | bridgeittä | |
comitative | — | bridgeineen |
Possessive forms of bridge (type nalle) | ||
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possessor | singular | plural |
1st person | bridgeni | bridgemme |
2nd person | bridgesi | bridgenne |
3rd person | bridgensä |
Compounds
Француски
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bridge m (uncountable)
Further reading
- “bridge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Noun
bridge
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Италијански
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Pronunciation
Noun
bridge m (plural #)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Derived terms
References
Limburgish
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Noun
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
- bridge (card game)
References
- “bridge” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
- (card games) bridge
References
- “bridge” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Португалски
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bridge m (uncountable)
- (card games) bridge
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing од Енглески bridge.
Noun
bridge n (plural bridge-uri)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
- a game of bridge
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) bridge | bridge-ul | (niște) bridge-uri | bridge-urile |
genitive/dative | (unui) bridge | bridge-ului | (unor) bridge-uri | bridge-urilor |
vocative | bridge-ule | bridge-urilor |
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Noun
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Sicilian
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Noun
bridge ?
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Шпански
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Pronunciation
Noun
bridge m (uncountable)
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Further reading
- “bridge” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Etymology
From Енглески.
Noun
bridge c
- (card games) bridge (card game)
Declension
Derived terms
Welsh
Etymology
Borrowed from Енглески bridge.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- (card games) bridge (card game)
bridge (енглески)
Изговор:
Морфолошке варијације:
- bridge, множина: bridges
Значења: {{{1}}}
- [1] мост
Преводи
Преводи
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Сродни чланци са Википедије:
- [1] bridge
Сличне речи:
- Енглески говор
- Енглески 1-слог речи
- Енглески термини са ИПА изговором
- Риме:Енглески/ɪdʒ
- Риме:Енглески/ɪdʒ/1 слог
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Средњи Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Средњи Енглески
- Енглески изрази наслеђени од Стари Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Стари Енглески
- Енглески појмови изведени из Proto-Germanic
- Енглески појмови изведени из Пра-Индо-Европски
- Енглески леме
- Енглески именице
- Енглески бројевне именице
- Енглески terms with usage examples
- Енглески термини са наводима
- Енглески глаголи
- Енглески појмови изведени из Руски
- Енглески појмови изведени из Турски
- Енглески непребројиве именице
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones
- Terms with manual transliterations different from the automated ones/ar
- en:Bridge
- en:Bridges
- Basque термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Basque појмови изведени из Енглески
- Каталонски термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Каталонски појмови изведени из Енглески
- Каталонски леме
- Каталонски именице
- Дански термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Дански појмови изведени из Енглески
- Дански термини са ИПА изговором
- Дански леме
- Дански именице
- da:Card games
- Холандски термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Холандски појмови изведени из Енглески
- Холандски термини са ИПА изговором
- Холандски леме
- Холандски именице
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- nl:Card games
- Фарски термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Фарски појмови изведени из Енглески
- Фарски леме
- Фарски именице
- Requests for gender in Фарски entries
- Фински термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Фински појмови изведени из Енглески
- Фински леме
- Фински именице
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- fi:Bridge
- Француски говор
- Француски појмови изведени из Енглески
- Француски 1-слог речи
- Француски термини са ИПА изговором
- Француски леме
- Француски именице
- Француски uncountable именице
- Индонезијски термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Индонезијски појмови изведени из Енглески
- Индонезијски леме
- Индонезијски именице
- Италијански говор
- Италијански термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Италијански појмови изведени из Енглески
- Италијански 1-слог речи
- Италијански термини са ИПА изговором
- Риме:Италијански/idʒ
- Риме:Италијански/idʒ/1 слог
- Италијански леме
- Италијански именице
- Италијански бројевне именице
- Limburgish термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Limburgish појмови изведени из Енглески
- Norwegian Bokmål појмови изведени из Енглески
- nb:Card games
- Norwegian Nynorsk термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Norwegian Nynorsk појмови изведени из Енглески
- Португалски говор
- Португалски термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Португалски појмови изведени из Енглески
- Португалски леме
- Португалски именице
- Румунски термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Румунски unadapted позајмице од Енглески
- Румунски појмови изведени из Енглески
- Румунски леме
- Румунски именице
- Romanian nouns with missing plurals
- Romanian countable nouns
- Saterland Frisian термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Saterland Frisian појмови изведени из Енглески
- Sicilian термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Sicilian појмови изведени из Енглески
- Sicilian noun
- Requests for gender in Sicilian entries
- Шпански говор
- Шпански термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Шпански појмови изведени из Енглески
- Шпански термини са ИПА изговором
- Шпански леме
- Шпански именице
- Spanish uncountable именице
- Шведски појмови изведени из Енглески
- Шведски леме
- Шведски именице
- Велшки термини позајмљени од Енглески
- Велшки појмови изведени из Енглески
- Велшки термини са ИПА изговором
- Енглеска именица
- Основни Енглески