Bridge
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.
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.
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.
A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.
A card game resembling whist.
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Bridge Quotations
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau
George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
Steven Wright
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl Nightingale
Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
Audre Lorde
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde
Bridge Translations
bridge in Afrikaans is brug
bridge in Danish is bro
bridge in Dutch is brug, commandobrug
bridge in Finnish is silta
bridge in French is carpette
bridge in Italian is ponte
bridge in Latin is pons pontis
bridge in Norwegian is bro
bridge in Portuguese is ponte
bridge in Spanish is puente
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