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Vinony

bridge

noun

  1. card game
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verb

  1. to build or provide a bridge
  2. to connect
  3. to temporarily substitute one medicine with another
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noun

  1. fixed dental restoration
  2. structure that spans physical obstacles
  3. command room of a ship
  4. part of a stringed instrument
  5. An edge in a node-link graph whose removal would disconnect the graph
  6. exercise and body posture in which a person stand on their feet and hands with their back turned down
  7. contrasting section of music
  8. valence bond, an atom or an unbranched chain of atoms connecting two different parts of a molecule
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /bɹɪd͡ʒ/

name

Etymology: English surname, from the noun bridge.

  1. A surname.
  2. A surname.
  3. A surname.
  4. A surname.
  5. A surname.
  6. A village and civil parish in Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1854). Recorded as Brige in 1086 (DB), from Old English brycg.
  7. An unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States, named for a river bridge.

noun

Etymology: From the earlier game biritch, probably from Russian бирю́ч (birjúč) or бири́ч (biríč); else from Turkish bir-üç (“one-three”).

  1. Any of a certain family of trick-taking card games.

    “Bidding is an essential element of the game of bridge.”

  2. Any of a certain family of trick-taking card games.

    “She played in a bridge tournament in Las Vegas last year.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English brigge, from Old English brycġ (“bridge”), from Proto-Germanic *brugjō, *brugjǭ (“bridge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerw-, *bʰrēw- (“wooden flooring, decking, bridge”). Cognates Cognate with Scots brig, brigg (“bridge”), Yola burge (“bridge”), North Frisian brag, Bröch (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch, Brääg (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Limburgish brögk (“bridge”), Luxembourgish Bréck (“bridge”), Vilamovian bryk (“bridge”), Yiddish בריק (brik, “bridge”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål brygge (“jetty, pier, wharf”), Faroese, Icelandic bryggja (“pier”), Norwegian Nynorsk brygge, bryggje (“jetty, pier, wharf”), Swedish brygga (“bridge; pier”). The verb is from Middle English briggen, from Old English brycġian (“to bridge, make a causeway, pave”), derived from the noun. Cognate with Dutch bruggen (“to bridge”), Middle Low German bruggen (“to bridge”), Old High German bruccōn (“to bridge”) (whence Modern German brücken). The sense of a part of a stringed instrument is a semantic loan from German Steg, from Old High German steg.

  1. To be or make a bridge over something.

    “With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge.”

    “On this occasion, the damage was far more serious. The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct.”

  2. To span as if with a bridge.

    “The two groups were able to bridge their differences.”

    “Before another word was spoken Inspector Beedel had appeared, and the grip of bone and muscle on the straining wrists was changed to one of steel. Less than thirty seconds bridged the whole astonishing transformation.”

  3. To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.

    “We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven".”

  4. To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
  5. To go to the bridge position.
  6. To employ the bridge tactic. (See Noun section.)