BRIDGES
Bridges, Harry Bridges
(noun) United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
bridges
plural of bridge
Verb
bridges
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bridge
Anagrams
• begirds
Proper noun
Bridges
A surname.
Anagrams
• begirds
Source: Wiktionary
BRIDGE
Bridge, n. Etym: [OE. brig, brigge, brug, brugge, AS. brycg, bricg;
akin to Fries. bregge, D. brug, OHG. bruccu, G. brücke, Icel. bryggja
pier, bridge, Sw. brygga, Dan. brygge, and prob. Icel. br bridge, Sw.
& Dan. bro bridge, pavement, and possibly to E. brow.]
1. A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over
a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to
make a passageway from one bank to the other.
2. Anything supported at the ends, which serves 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.
3. (Mus.)
Definition: The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a
violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their
vibrations to the body of the instrument.
4. (Elec.)
Definition: A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor
forming part of an electric circuit.
5. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace,
for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall. Aqueduct
bridge. See Aqueduct.
– Asses' bridge, Bascule bridge, Bateau bridge. See under Ass,
Bascule, Bateau.
– Bridge of a steamer (Naut.), a narrow platform across the deck,
above the rail, for the convenience of the officer in charge of the
ship; in paddlewheel vessels it connects the paddle boxes.
– Bridge of the nose, the upper, bony part of the nose.
– Cantalever bridge. See under Cantalever.
– Draw bridge. See Drawbridge.
– Flying bridge, a temporary bridge suspended or floating, as for
the passage of armies; also, a floating structure connected by a
cable with an anchor or pier up stream, and made to pass from bank to
bank by the action of the current or other means.
– Girder bridge or Truss bridge, a bridge formed by girders, or by
trusses resting upon abutments or piers.
– Lattice bridge, a bridge formed by lattice girders.
– Pontoon bridge, Ponton bridge. See under Pontoon.
– Skew bridge, a bridge built obliquely from bank to bank, as
sometimes required in railway engineering.
– Suspension bridge. See under Suspension.
– Trestle bridge, a bridge formed of a series of short, simple
girders resting on trestles.
– Tubular bridge, a bridge in the form of a hollow trunk or
rectangular tube, with cellular walls made of iron plates riveted
together, as the Britannia bridge over the Menai Strait, and the
Victoria bridge at Montreal.
– Wheatstone's bridge (Elec.), a device for the measurement of
resistances, so called because the balance between the resistances to
be measured is indicated by the absence of a current in a certain
wire forming a bridge or connection between two points of the
apparatus; -- invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone.
Bridge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bridged (; p. pr. & vb. n. Bridging.]
1. To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
Their simple engineering bridged with felled trees the streams which
could not be forded. Palfrey.
2. To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
Xerxes . . . over Hellespont Bridging his way, Europe with Asia
joined. Milton.
3. To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with
over.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition