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
But the agency said in its response letter that there would be no need because there wasn’t any lane construction on the bridge, only restriping.
Caltrans also declined to add other protections for nearby wildlife.—Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024 Norman and his team worked with an engineering company to rig the bridge and help with the base structure.—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 June 2024
Verb
However, when your needs and desires are conflicting with those of your family, the healthy solution is compromise and finding a way to bridge these differences.—Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 20 June 2024 Reliever Dillon Tate bridged the game to Akin, whose struggles versus left-handed batters were put on full display when Olson, one of the best sluggers in the game despite his slow start to the season, sat on a high fastball and was rewarded for guessing correctly.—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 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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