…a structure carrying a road, path, railway, etc. across a river, road, or other obstacle…
…a card game related to whist, played by two partnerships of two players who at the beginning of each hand bid for the right to name the trump suit, the highest bid also representing a contract to make a specified number of tricks with a specified suit as trumps…
…(1879–1941), English composer, conductor, and violist. His compositions include chamber music, songs, and orchestral works, among them The Sea (1910–11) and Oration (for cello and orchestra, 1930)…
…a movable bridge placed against an aircraft door to allow passengers to embark or disembark…
…a mixture of various bite-size snack foods, such as nuts, raisins, and chocolates, typically served in a bowl at card games, parties, etc.…
…a connection between two land masses, especially a prehistoric one that allowed humans and animals to colonize new territory before being cut off by the sea, as across the Bering Strait and the English Channel…
…a tube containing an electrolyte (typically in the form of a gel), providing electrical contact between two solutions…
…a line of shoals lying between NW Sri Lanka and the SE coast of Tamil Nadu in India, separating the Palk Strait from the Gulf of Mannar…
…a temporary bridge of lattice steel designed for rapid assembly from prefabricated standard parts, used especially in military operations…
…a bridge over water that can be rotated horizontally to allow ships through…
…a bridge across the Thames in London, famous for its twin towers and for the two bascules of which the roadway consists, able to be lifted to allow the passage of large ships. It was completed in 1894…
…an obsolete form of the card game bridge, in which all tricks won counted towards the game whether bid or not…
…a transitional section in a musical composition leading to a new section or theme…
…a suspension bridge between southern Manhattan and northern Brooklyn (on Long Island) in New York City. Constructed 1869–1883, it was one of the period’s engineering marvels and is celebrated in art and literature…
…a simple bridge consisting of slabs of stone or planks laid across a series of rocks or piles of stones…
…the standard form of the card game bridge, in which only tricks bid and won count towards the game, as opposed to auction bridge…
…a bridge of natural rock, the world’s largest natural bridge, situated in southern Utah, just north of the border with Arizona. Its span is 86 m (278 ft)…
…a bridge in which each span is constructed from cantilevers built out sideways from piers…
…a competitive form of bridge in which the same hands are played successively by different partnerships…
…a bridge in which the weight of the deck is supported by vertical cables suspended from further cables that run between towers and are anchored in abutments at each end…
…a bridge complex opened in 1936 that links the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan boroughs in New York City…
…a simple circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by connecting it so as to form a quadrilateral with three known resistances and applying a voltage between a pair of opposite corners…
…a step or act that is regarded as being too drastic to take…
…(of a person) living in the suburbs and perceived as unsophisticated…
…a bridge formed by mooring boats side by side across a river…
…a 16th-century enclosed bridge in Venice between the Doges' Palace and the state prison, originally crossed by prisoners on their way to torture or execution…
…a bridge in which the weight of the deck is supported by a number of cables running directly to one or more towers…
…a suspension bridge across New York harbour between Brooklyn and Staten Island, the longest in the world when it was completed in 1964…
…used to indicate that a task is never-ending…
…used to refer to events that are in the past and consequently no longer to be regarded as important…
…a difference, especially an undesirable one, between two views or situations…
…an open deck above the main bridge of a vessel such as a yacht or cabin cruiser, typically equipped with duplicate controls…
…an arch (or bridge) with the line of the arch not at right angles to the abutment…
…a machine for weighing vehicles, set into the ground to be driven on to…
…deal with a problem when and if it arises…
…a type of bridge with a section which can be raised and lowered using counterweights…
…a narrow sea passage which separates the eastern tip of Siberia from Alaska and links the Arctic Ocean with the Bering Sea, about 85 km (53 miles) wide at its narrowest point. During the Ice Age, as a result of a drop in sea levels, the Bering land bridge formed between the two continents, allowing the migration of animals and dispersal of plants in both directions…
