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# bridge

«bridge» in Mova's school dictionary: **something built over a river, road or valley so people or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (bridge, bridges); verb (bridge, bridges, bridged, bridging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bridge is something built over a river, road or valley so people or vehicles can go across. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#m1)

2) The bridge of your nose is its top part between the eyes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#m2)

3) The bridge of a ship is where the captain steers it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#m3)

4) To bridge a gap is to join two things or make a difference smaller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#m4)

5) Bridge is also a card game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a length; crossing a bridge; a train passing over a bridge (bridge length + train length); bridges counted over a river. In science and design: building bridges from straws or paper to test strength; arch, beam and suspension bridges. In everyday life: famous bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge and Sydney Harbour Bridge. Phrases: «cross the bridge», «over the bridge», «under the bridge», «cross that bridge when we come to it».

### examples

- The bridge is 200 m long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x1)
- A train crosses the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x2)
- There are 3 bridges over the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x3)
- How long does it take to cross? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x4)
- The Sydney Harbour Bridge is called «the Coathanger». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x5)
- We built a bridge from paper straws to hold a toy car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x6)
- The troll lived under the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x7)
- His glasses sat on the bridge of his nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x8)
- They turned, and ran back across the bridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a bridge». Maths: a length; a train passing fully over a bridge goes bridge length + train length. Trap: forgetting the train's own length.

### In the corpora

- [The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/15/)
- [Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/2/)
- [Army ants link their bodies into bridges and even a living nest called a bivouac, with no ant in charge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/238-ants-colonies-queens-farmers-and-living-bridges/10/)
- [Fronted adverbials of place include Under the bridge, In the garden and Far away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/19/)
- ["Crossed the rainbow bridge" means the pet died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/17-school-and-pets/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bridge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bridge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.