card games: any of various card games for usually four players in two partnerships that bid for the right to declare a trump suit, seek to win tricks (see trickentry 1 sense 4) equal to the final bid, and play with the hand of declarer 's partner exposed and played by declarer
To simply get to the ninth inning, the Dodgers constructed a creaky bridge of hold-your-breath relievers to preserve their early lead.—Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2024 His work touched the state's most significant bridges, including the bridge over the Arkansas River at Dardanelle and the (now Interstate 55) Memphis-Arkansas Bridge over the Mississippi River in West Memphis.—arkansasonline.com, 13 July 2024
Verb
Our product bridges this gap, offering luxury condos at an attainable price.—Kansas City Star, 10 July 2024 The research bridges economics and psychology to explain why financial incentives can backfire.—Simon Makin, Scientific American, 8 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for bridge
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English brigge, from Old English brycg; akin to Old High German brucka bridge, Old Church Slavonic brŭvŭno beam
Verb
Middle English briggen, going back to Old English brycgian, noun derivative of brycgbridge entry 1
Noun (2)
alteration of earlier biritch, of unknown origin
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
: a strand of protoplasm extending between two cells
c
: a partial denture held in place by anchorage to adjacent teeth
d
: a connection (as an atom or group of atoms) that joins two different parts of a molecule (as opposite sides of a ring)
e
: an area of physical continuity between two chromatids persisting during the later phases of mitosis and constituting a possible source of somatic genetic change
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