bridge | (noun) any of various card games based on whist for four players | - |
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(noun) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. | Synonyms: span |
(noun) an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands | Synonyms: bridge deck |
(noun) the link between two lenses; rests on the nose | Synonyms: nosepiece |
(noun) a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth | Synonyms: bridgework |
(noun) a wooden support that holds the strings up | - |
(noun) a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected | Synonyms: bridge circuit |
(noun) the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose | - |
(noun) something resembling a bridge in form or function | - |
cartridge | (noun) ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun | - |
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(noun) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable | Synonyms: pickup |
(noun) a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment | - |
(noun) a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required | Synonyms: magazine |
drawbridge | (noun) a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it | Synonyms: lift bridge |
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flybridge | (noun) the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house | Synonyms: fly bridge, flying bridge, monkey bridge |
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footbridge | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: overcrossing, pedestrian bridge |
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fridge | (noun) a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric refrigerator |
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midge | (noun) minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water | - |
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partridge | (noun) small Old World gallinaceous game birds | - |
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(noun) a popular North American game bird; named for its call | Synonyms: bobwhite, bobwhite quail |
(noun) valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada | Synonyms: Bonasa umbellus, ruffed grouse |
(noun) heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds | Synonyms: tinamou |
(noun) flesh of either quail or grouse | - |
pepperidge | (noun) columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall | Synonyms: black gum, Nyssa sylvatica, sour gum |
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porridge | (noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick | - |
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ridge | (noun) a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters | Synonyms: ridgepole, rooftree |
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(noun) any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane | - |
(noun) a long narrow natural elevation or striation | - |
(noun) a long narrow range of hills | Synonyms: ridgeline |
(noun) a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean | - |
(noun) any long raised strip | - |
smidge | (noun) a tiny or scarcely detectable amount | Synonyms: iota, scintilla, shred, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit |
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weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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