Wiktionary

bridge

See also: Bridge and bridgé

EnglishEdit

 
A railway bridge (sense 1.1)

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

 
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  • enPR: brĭj, IPA(key): /bɹɪd͡ʒ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪdʒ

Etymology 1Edit

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”).

Cognate with Scots brig, brigg, breeg (“bridge”), Saterland Frisian Brääch (“bridge”), West Frisian brêge (“bridge”), Dutch brug (“bridge”), German Brücke (“bridge”), Danish bro (“bridge”) and brygge (“wharf”), Icelandic brú (“bridge”) and brygga (“pier”), Gaulish briua (“bridge”), Serbo-Croatian brv (“bridge, crossbar”), Old Church Slavonic бръвъно (brŭvŭno, “beam”) and Russian бревно́ (brevnó, “log”).

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).

NounEdit

 
A bridge (sense 1.1)
 
The bridge (sense 2.1) of a warship
 
The bridge (sense 2.2) of a violin

bridge (plural bridges)

  1. A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
    1. 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.
      • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
        Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
      • 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 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.
    3. (anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
      Rugby players often break the bridge of their noses.
    4. (dentistry) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
      The dentist pulled out the decayed tooth and put in a bridge.
    5. (bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
  2. An arch or superstructure.
    1. (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.
    3. (music, lutherie) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
    4. (billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
    5. (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.
    6. 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.
    7. (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.
    8. (gymnastics) A similar position in gymnastics.
  3. 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.
    1. (medicine) A rudimentary procedure before definite solution
      ECMO is used as a bridge to surgery to stabilize the patient.
    2. (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.
    3. (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.
    4. (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.
    5. (chemistry) An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
    7. (electronics) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
    8. (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."
    9. (graph theory) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
    10. (poetry) A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
    11. (diplomacy) A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
    12. A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
  4. (electronics) Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit
  5. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
  6. (cycling) The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
  7. A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
  8. (roller derby) An elongated chain of teammates, connected to the pack, for improved blocking potential.
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VerbEdit

bridge (third-person singular simple present bridges, present participle bridging, simple past and past participle bridged)

  1. To be or make a bridge over something.
    With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge.
    • 1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
      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.
    • 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, 28:
      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.
  3. (music) To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.
    We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven".
  4. (computing, communication) To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
  5. (wrestling) To go to the bridge position.
  6. (roller derby) To employ the bridge tactic. (See Noun section.)
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Etymology 2Edit

 
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From the earlier form (name of an older card game) biritch, probably from Russian бири́ч (biríč) (per the OED), or else from Turkish bir-üç, "one-three".[1][2]

NounEdit

bridge (uncountable)

  2. (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.
TranslationsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ "bridge." *OED 2nd edition. 1989. (online)
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “bridge”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

AnagramsEdit

BasqueEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge ?

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

CatalanEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge m (plural bridges)

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

DanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From English bridge.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /britsj/, [ˈb̥ʁid̥ɕ]

NounEdit

bridge c (singular definite bridgen, not used in plural form)

  1. bridge (a card game)

InflectionEdit

Declension of bridge
common
gender 		Singular
indefinite definite
nominative bridge bridgen
genitive bridges bridgens

DutchEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /brɪdʒ/ (/r/ may be realised as [ɹ])
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: bridge

NounEdit

bridge n (uncountable)

  1. bridge (card game)

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

FaroeseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge ?

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

FinnishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From English bridge.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈbridɡe/, [ˈbridɡe̞]
  • Rhymes: -idɡe
  • Syllabification(key): brid‧ge

NounEdit

bridge

  1. (card games) bridge

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of bridge (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation)
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)
possessor singular plural
1st person bridgeni bridgemme
2nd person bridgesi bridgenne
3rd person bridgensä

CompoundsEdit

FrenchEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From English bridge.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bridge m (uncountable)

  1. (card games) bridge
  2. (dentistry, France) bridge
    Synonym: (Canada) pont

Further readingEdit

IndonesianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge (first-person possessive bridgeku, second-person possessive bridgemu, third-person possessive bridgenya)

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

ItalianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bridge m (invariable)

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ bridge in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

LimburgishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge ?

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge m (definite singular bridgen, uncountable)

  1. bridge (card game)

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge m (definite singular bridgen, uncountable)

  1. (card games) bridge

ReferencesEdit

PortugueseEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English bridge.

PronunciationEdit

 

NounEdit

bridge m (uncountable)

  1. (card games) bridge

RomanianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge n (plural bridge-uri)

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)
  2. a game of bridge

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bridge
singular plural
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 FrisianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge ? (plural [please provide])

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

SicilianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

NounEdit

bridge ?

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

SpanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bridge m (uncountable)

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From English.

NounEdit

bridge c

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of bridge 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative bridge bridgen — —
Genitive bridges bridgens — —

Derived termsEdit

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English bridge.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

bridge m

  1. (card games) bridge (card game)
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