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bridge structure built over water or any obstacle or depression to allow the passage of pedestrians or vehicles. See also viaduct .
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"bridge." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bridge." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-bridge-riv.html "bridge." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-bridge-riv.html |
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bridge, an elevated platform built above the upper deck of a powered vessel, from which a ship is normally navigated and from where all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain or officer of the watch. Except in the case of some fishing and similar vessels, where it may be in the form of a wheelhouse, it usually runs athwartships. The bridge of a modern ship is normally totally enclosed by glass screens or windows to give protection from the weather, but in earlier vessels the bridge was usually open and protected from the weather only by a canvas dodger and, in very hot weather, from the sun by a canvas awning. The main magnetic compass and a repeater from the gyroscopic compass are normally situated on the bridge together with the steering wheel, a chart table for chart work, GPS displays, and radar scanners. In very large ships, such as ocean liners etc., the bridge structure may contain two or even more bridges extending the full width of the ship.
A flying bridge in motor yachts is a steering platform located a level above the deck. In the USA a bridge deck is the deck between the cockpit and the cabin in a monohull and between the hulls in a catamaran. In the days of sail, ships were controlled from the quarterdeck, with the steering wheel in the after part of the waist, but as steam propulsion was developed, first in the paddle steamer, it was discovered that the platform between the two paddle boxes, known at the time as a bridge, gave a much better all-round view of operations on deck. When the propeller replaced the paddle wheel the elevated structure amidships was retained as the navigational control position, and as further development took place, particularly in the number of boilers required to produce steam in sufficient quantity, this central bridge was moved forward and raised to keep it clear of the funnel smoke. The modern tendency in larger ships, particularly tankers and bulk carriers, and some cruise ships, is to construct the bridge well aft in the ship, mainly in order to keep the upper deck as clear as possible in order to give an uninterrupted view of it, and to provide easier and more economical working conditions at sea and in harbour. This is made possible because the propulsion machinery is placed as far aft as possible, with funnels or diesel exhausts, which affect the position of the bridge in the ship, close to the stern. See also dodger. |
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"bridge." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bridge." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-bridge.html "bridge." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-bridge.html |
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bridge1 / brij/ • n. 1. a structure carrying a road, path, railroad, or canal across a river, ravine, road, railroad, or other obstacle: a bridge across the river a railroad bridge. ∎ something that makes a physical connection between two other things. ∎ something that is intended to reconcile or form a connection between two things: a committee that was formed to create a bridge between rival parties. ∎ a partial denture supported by natural teeth on either side. See also bridgework. ∎ the support formed by the hand for the forward part of a billiard cue. ∎ a long stick with a frame at the end that is used to support a cue for a shot that is otherwise hard to reach. ∎ Mus. an upright piece of wood on a string instrument over which the strings are stretched. ∎ Mus. a bridge passage. 2. the elevated platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations. 3. the upper bony part of a person's nose: he pushed his spectacles further up the bridge of his nose. ∎ the central part of a pair of glasses, fitting over this: these sunglasses have a special nose bridge for comfort. 4. an electric circuit with two branches across which a detector or load is connected. • v. [tr.] be a bridge over (something): a covered walkway that bridged the gardens. ∎ build a bridge over (something): earlier attempts to bridge the channel had failed. ∎ make (a difference between two groups) smaller or less significant: bridging the gap between avant garde art and popular culture. DERIVATIVES: bridge·a·ble adj. bridge2 • n. a card game descended from whist, played by two partnerships of two players who at the beginning of each hand bid for the right to name the trump suit, the highest bid also representing a contract to make a specified number of tricks with a specified suit as trumps. |
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"bridge." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bridge." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-bridge005.html "bridge." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-bridge005.html |
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bridge A unit that supports a low-level link of two regions of a single network. In networks using a broadcast protocol, in which all network nodes receive all messages, it is helpful to subdivide the network into a number of regions in which the majority of traffic is between pairs of nodes within that region, with only a small amount of traffic leaving the region. A bridge can be inserted between two such regions: it allows interregion traffic to cross the bridge but will not forward into the second region traffic that is addressed to a destination in the same region as the sender. To achieve this, a bridge must be capable of interpreting the sender and receiver addresses in the data. It must therefore be capable of interpreting the network protocol, and will almost certainly need to store an entire packet before forwarding it. The bridge will be designed so as to function at the lowest possible level within the protocol stack, consistent with achieving correct partitioning of the network.
Despite the complexity of the unit, and the delay it introduces, large networks almost invariably include bridges since their presence greatly reduces the total network traffic. A bridge may be adaptive, determining the addresses in each region by examining the contents of the address fields of the packets. A bridge may operate as a filtering bridge, with a fixed set of node identities that will be allowed to send packets across the bridge, providing a limited form of safeguard against unwanted attempts to connect to a sensitive system. See also router, firewall. |
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JOHN DAINTITH. "bridge." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN DAINTITH. "bridge." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-bridge.html JOHN DAINTITH. "bridge." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O11-bridge.html |
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bridge a structure carrying a road over a river or other obstacle, often in figurative use. Bridge-building is the promotion of friendly relations between groups.
Bridge Fraternity from the 12th century, a confraternity of laymen dedicated to the building or maintenance of a bridge, especially one carrying a pilgrimage route over a river. The best-known example of such a fraternity is that of the bridge of Avignon, founded by St-Bénézet in the late 12th century and linking Avignon with Villeneuve on the opposite bank of the Rhone. bridge of boats a bridge formed by mooring boats side by side across a river; the bridge of boats over the river Rhône at Arles was in use throughout the 2nd and 3rd centuries ad. Bridge of Sighs in Venice, a bridge connecting the Doge's palace with the state prison originally crossed by prisoners on their way to torture or execution. cross that bridge when one comes to it deal with a problem when and if it arises; from the proverbial saying don't cross the bridge till you come to it (see cross3). it is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy it is wiser to give passage to an enemy in flight, who may be desperate; the idea is attributed to Aristides (480 bc), who warned Themistocles against destroying the bridge of boats which the Persian king Xerxes had constructed across the Hellespont for the invasion of Greece. The saying is recorded from the late 16th century. See also everyone speaks well of the bridge that carries him over at speak, water of Chancery. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "bridge." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "bridge." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-bridge.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "bridge." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-bridge.html |
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bridge An apparent structure of stars or gas linking one galaxy with another. In some cases this may be the result of physical (tidal) interaction between the two galaxies, as in the case of the Antennae. In other cases the feature may be an observational artefact, or a chance, line-of-sight superposition of luminous material in the galaxies that is unrelated to any interaction. A combination of both artefact and line-of-sight effects probably accounts for the apparent bridge between the quasar Markarian 205 and the spiral galaxy NGC 4319, which have very different velocities of recession (21 000 and 1700 km/s respectively). A chain of galaxies linking two clusters or groups of galaxies is also sometimes known as a bridge.
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"bridge." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bridge." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-bridge.html "bridge." A Dictionary of Astronomy. 1997. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O80-bridge.html |
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bridge Structure providing a continuous passage over a body of water, roadway or valley. Bridges are built for people, vehicles, pipelines, or power transmission lines. Bridges are prehistoric in origin, the first probably being merely logs over rivers or chasms. Modern bridges take a great variety of forms including beams, arches, cantilevers, suspension bridges and cable-stayed bridges. They can also be movable or floating pontoons. They can be made from a variety of materials, including brick or stone (for arches), steel or concrete.
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"bridge." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bridge." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-bridge.html "bridge." World Encyclopedia. 2005. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O142-bridge.html |
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bridge A hardware device which allows data to flow between two networks, usually LOCAL AREA NETWORKS. It examines the destination address of data that flows through it and forwards it to the network that it bridges if the address matches. If it does not, then the data is sent to other networks which contain bridges so that they can check whether the data is intended for them.
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DARREL INCE. "bridge." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. DARREL INCE. "bridge." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O12-bridge.html DARREL INCE. "bridge." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O12-bridge.html |
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bridge.
1. In str. instr., the piece of wood that supports the str. and communicates their vibrations to the belly. 2. A term, usually ‘bridge passage’, in comp., meaning a short section which links together—perhaps by a key change—2 important sections of a large-scale sym. or similar work. |
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-bridge.html MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-bridge.html |
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bridge. Cúchulainn has to cross the Bridge of Leaps to reach the realm of Scáthach. It is high, narrow, and slippery as an eel's tail; anyone failing to cross it will fall to sea-monsters below. Cúchulainn does cross, and on a second crossing kills a hag who opposes him.
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JAMES MacKILLOP. "bridge." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES MacKILLOP. "bridge." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-bridge.html JAMES MacKILLOP. "bridge." A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. 2004. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O70-bridge.html |
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Bridge, mechanical device (called an elevator in America) for raising heavy pieces of scenery or a tableau of actors from below up to stage level. The electrically controlled bridges of a large theatre may reach a high degree of engineering complexity.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Bridge." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Bridge." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-Bridge.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Bridge." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-Bridge.html |
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bridge1 elevated structure (often arched over water) forming a passageway between two points. OE. bryċġ = OS. bruggia, OHG. brucca (G. brücke), ON. bryggja :- Gmc. *bruʒjō.
Hence vb. OE. bryċġian. |
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T. F. HOAD. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-bridge.html T. F. HOAD. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-bridge.html |
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bridge n. the elevated, enclosed platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations.
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"bridge." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bridge." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-bridge.html "bridge." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-bridge.html |
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Bridge Kent. Brige 1086 (DB). ‘(Place at) the bridge’. OE brycg.
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A. D. MILLS. "Bridge." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. A. D. MILLS. "Bridge." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Bridge.html A. D. MILLS. "Bridge." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Bridge.html |
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bridge2 card game based on whist. XIX. of unkn. orig.
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T. F. HOAD. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-bridge1.html T. F. HOAD. "bridge." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-bridge1.html |
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bridge
•abridge, bridge, fridge, frig, midge, ridge
•quayage • verbiage • foliage • lineage
•ferriage
•stowage, towage
•buoyage, voyage
•sewage
•Babbage, cabbage
•garbage • cribbage
•Burbage, herbage
•adage • bandage • yardage • headage
•appendage • windage • bondage
•vagabondage • cordage • poundage
•wordage • staffage • roughage
•baggage • mortgage • luggage
•package, trackage
•tankage • wreckage • breakage
•leakage
•linkage, shrinkage, sinkage
•blockage, dockage, lockage
•boscage • corkage • soakage
•truckage • tallage • assemblage
•railage
•grillage, pillage, spillage, stillage, tillage, village
•pupillage (US pupilage) • sacrilege
•ensilage • mucilage • cartilage
•sortilege • tutelage • curtilage
•privilege
•mileage, silage
•acknowledge, college, foreknowledge, knowledge
•haulage, stallage
•spoilage • Coolidge
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"bridge." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "bridge." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bridge.html "bridge." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-bridge.html |
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