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
Also part of the Rebuild Illinois plan are IDOT plans to replace the Route 20 bridge over the Fox River, an $80 million project.—Gloria Casas, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025 After the car finished crossing the bridge and arrived on Canal Street in lower Manhattan, Majors asked the driver to stop.—Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2025
Verb
The Wolverines bridged the first and second halves with 18 unanswered points to turn a 34-31 deficit in the opening period into a 49-34 advantage with 17:16 left in the game.—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 15 Mar. 2025 To bridge this gap, the Evo Sessions invited these women and other influential figures to experience the sport firsthand and authentically share it with their audiences.—Jenn Nelson, Forbes, 14 Mar. 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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