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

1. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. 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. noun. A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
5. noun. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
6. transitive verb. To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
7. transitive verb. To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
8. transitive verb. To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.
9. noun. any of various card games based on whist for four players
10. noun. a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

    Synonyms: span

11. noun. an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands
12. noun. the link between two lenses; rests on the nose

    Synonyms: nosepiece

13. noun. a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth

    Synonyms: bridgework

14. noun. a wooden support that holds the strings up
15. noun. a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected
16. noun. the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose

    "her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose"

17. noun. something resembling a bridge in form or function

    "his letters provided a bridge across the centuries"

18. verb. make a bridge across

    "bridge a river"

19. verb. cross over on a bridge
20. verb. connect or reduce the distance between

Synonyms

span, nosepiece, bridgework

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bridge:

begird

Common word forms

bridged, bridger, bridges, bridging, bridgeable, bridgeless

Words from these letters

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