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 →

2) The bridge of your nose is its top part between the eyes. tree →

3) The bridge of a ship is where the captain steers it. tree →

4) To bridge a gap is to join two things or make a difference smaller. tree →

5) Bridge is also a card game. tree →

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 →
• A train crosses the bridge. tree →
• There are 3 bridges over the river. tree →
• How long does it take to cross? tree →
• The Sydney Harbour Bridge is called «the Coathanger». tree →
• We built a bridge from paper straws to hold a toy car. tree →
• The troll lived under the bridge. tree →
• His glasses sat on the bridge of his nose. tree →
• They turned, and ran back across the bridge. tree →

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.
• Snap a chicken bone from Sunday dinner and it is hollow, with thin struts inside like a bridge, light but strong.
• Army ants link their bodies into bridges and even a living nest called a bivouac, with no ant in charge.
• Fronted adverbials of place include Under the bridge, In the garden and Far away.
• "Crossed the rainbow bridge" means the pet died.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bridge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.