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
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Noun
The game unfolds more like an interactive movie than a video game, with the player needing to select the right direction of the controller and hit the action button in time to survive threats like giant skeletal hands or collapsing bridges.—Michileen Martin, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025 The work is part of a plan to upgrade eight bridges at the interchange, which MassDOT says are safe but deteriorating.—Matthew Medsger, Boston Herald, 19 June 2025
Verb
When the visitors come, it's not spoken language but instead a musical theme that bridges the intergalactic gap between us and them, and Richard Dreyfuss' blue-collar worker is every dreamer who's ever looked into the sky and wanted to see the stars.—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025 Based on these experiences, here are five ways to bridge the AI skills gap at your organization:
1.—Jyoti Shah, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for bridge
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English brigge, from Old English brycg; akin to Old High German brucka bridge, Old Church Slavic 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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