Dictionary Entry
bridge
bridge is a 6-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 20 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
- 5noun
A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
- 6transitive verb
To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
- 7transitive verb
To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
- 8transitive verb
To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.
- 9noun
any of various card games based on whist for four players
- 10noun
a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
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- 11noun
an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands
- 12noun
the link between two lenses; rests on the nose
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- 13noun
a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth
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- 14noun
a wooden support that holds the strings up
- 15noun
a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected
- 16noun
the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose
"her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose"
- 17noun
something resembling a bridge in form or function
"his letters provided a bridge across the centuries"
- 18verb
make a bridge across
"bridge a river"
- 19verb
cross over on a bridge
- 20verb
connect or reduce the distance between
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