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
Falke perfects the graphics of buildings, trees, and bridges with just a slight manual adjustment to what the mirror captures.—Anna Goldwater Alexander, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2025 The production shot at an old trestle bridge from the early 1900s, one of the few left, found on someone’s private property.—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
The inability to tune into each other’s feelings creates a gap that cannot be bridged by words alone.—Mark Travers, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2025 That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but this ambiguity, though conceptually intriguing, introduces an emotional distance that even the steady performances of Huppert (Sabine) and Xiao Dong Guo (Wei) cannot fully bridge.—Beandrea July, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 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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