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bridge

Definition

  • noun: a structure built over something (such as a river) so that people or vehicles can get across
  • noun: a structure carrying a pathway or roadway over a depression or obstacle
  • verb: to make a bridge over or across (something)
  • verb: to make a bridge over or across
  • usually used figuratively
  • synonyms: span, overbridge, truss bridge

Examples

  • They hope to 'build a bridge' between the two cultures. [=they hope to help the people in the two cultures understand each other]

  • I don't know how we'll pay the bills if you quit your job, but 'we'll cross that bridge when we come to it'.

  • We had our differences in the past, but that's all 'water under the bridge' now.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Fumm! What now? Get the hooks. ELMONT: Quickly, men! Get that bridge up and secure it! That won't hold them for long. ISABELLE: Jack! JACK: Isabelle. ELMONT: Archers to the parapets! (..)
    2013 Jack the Giant Slayer
  • (..) from a magical pod... ...the monks grew a pathway to seek out their God. When they came to what they thought... With a bridge now before them to the world of men... ...they a But the one taste that caused them to lose all control..." WOMAN: (..)
    2013 Jack the Giant Slayer