Bridge Over

Definition: Bridge Over

Bridge Over

Verb

1. Suffice for a period between two points; "This money will keep us going for another year".

2. Connect or reduce the distance between.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Bridge Over

Compromise

Verb: compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference, meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms; (contract); submit to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange; straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; take the will for the deed.

Connection

Verb: bridge over, span; connect; hang.

Facility

Leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open; give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the way, bridge over; permit.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Pacification

Settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate differences; set straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites; come to an understanding, come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make matters up; shake hands; mend one's fences.

Crosswords: Bridge Over

Like a bridge over troubled water (Bridge Over Troubled Water; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

Grand Trunk R.R. Bridge Over Whirlpool (1899)

The Day Irish Mail from Euston Entering the Tubular Bridge Over the Menai Straits Menai Bridge (1898)

Bridge Over Troubled Water (performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

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Books

• Tales in Time: The Bridge over the Edge of Time and Trolamahr's Blackberries - Trapped in Time (reference)

• The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics (Wildavsky Forum Series) (reference)

• Bridge Over the River Kwai (reference)

• Tarnish: Bridge over Clouds (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Bridge Over Troubled Water [Expanded] [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference)

• Jean: Bridge Over Troubled Water (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Highway 433 Bridge over the Columbia River at Longview. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Route 30 Bridge over Susquehanna River, Lancaster County PA. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Twin Tunnels Bridge over the Deschutes River. Credit: Steve Lent.

"India Ink copy of Photograph of H.I.M. Adler, bow view on reef. Bridge over River Mulvai" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows German gunboat Adler as she lay on the western side of Apia Harbor after the storm, with the Mulivai River bridge in the left background. Credit: NAVY.

Architectural drawing for a bridge over the Potomac River ("Memorial Bridge"), Washington, D.C. and Arlington, Virginia. Perspective rendering and profile section. Credit: Library of Congress.

Panorama of east Krasnoiarsk, with the Kommunalnyi Bridge over Enisei River, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Sunrise over east Krasnoiarsk, with the Kommunalnyi Bridge over Enisei River, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Burnt bridge over Pope's Head, near Devereux Station, Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bird's-eye view of horse-drawn streetcar on M Street Bridge over Rock Creek. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jones' Landing, Va., vicinity. Pontoon bridge over the James, from the north bank. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Portugal

Porto is now connected to Lisbon by a new motorway and a new bridge over the Douro River. (references)

Guyana

Ferry facilities in some areas have been upgraded, and the government has announced plans to build a bridge over the Berbice River and a deep-water harbor in New Amsterdam, Berbice. (references)

Romania

Additional infrastructure projects have been discussed with the World Bank, EBRD, and EU-PHARE for motorway extension and building a new bridge over the Danube at Calafat-Vidin, along the Pan-European Transport Corridor IV. (references)

Trade

Costa Rica

Costa Rica is no longer eligible for PL-480 food aid, and it is hoped the GSM-102 program will enable Costa Rica to bridge over to purchases on normal commercial credit terms. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "bridge over": throw a bridge over a river. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏أقام جسرا على النهر (throw a bridge over a river). (various references)

Danish

kanalbro (canal aqueduct over a river, canal bridge over a river), anvendes et tryk paa ca 200 mm VS opstaar der laminar stroemning, hvorved en tynd luftstraale gennemloeber kammerets frie rum og frembringer et tryksignal ved dens udtraedelse (applying an operating pressure of some 200 millimetres WC produces a laminar flow which can bridge over the free space in the chamber in the form of a laminar jet and which produces at the output a pressure signal). (various references)

Dutch

brug waarmede het kanaal over een rivier wordt gevoerd (canal aqueduct over a river, canal bridge over a river). (various references)

French

pont-canal au-dessus d'une rivière (canal bridge over a river), l'application d'une pression de régime d'environ 200 mm d'eau engendre un écoulement laminaire qui peut franchir l'espace libre de la chambre sous forme d'un jet laminaire et produire � la sortie un signal pression (applying an operating pressure of some 200 millimetres WC produces a laminar flow which can bridge over the free space in the chamber in the form of a laminar jet and which produces at the output a pressure signal). (various references)

German

überbrücken (bridge, get over, get through, reconcile, straddle, to bridge). (various references)

Greek 

διωρυγογέφυρα πάνω από ποταμό (canal aqueduct over a river, canal bridge over a river). (various references)

Hungarian

folyót átszelő híd (bridge over the river), folyón átvezető híd (bridge over the river). (various references)

Italian

ponte canale al di sopra di un corso d'acqua (canal aqueduct over a river, canal bridge over a river), l'applicazione di una pressione di regime di circa 200 mm d'acqua genera un moto fluido laminare che puo oltrepassare lo spazio libero della camera sotto forma di un getto laminare dando luoga all'uscita da un segnale da pressione (applying an operating pressure of some 200 millimetres WC produces a laminar flow which can bridge over the free space in the chamber in the form of a laminar jet and which produces at the output a pressure signal). (various references)

Pig Latin

idgebray overay

Romanian

construi un pod peste. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: overbred, overgird, override, riverbed.

-3 letters: berried, brevier, broider, deriver, diverge, grieved, griever, grodier, overbed, overbid, overbig, rebored, redrive, redrove.

-4 letters: begird, birder, birred, border, boride, bridge, derive, devoir, driver, drover, edgier, girder, gorier, grieve, groved, orbier, oreide, overed, rebore, rebred, regive, reived, reiver, reverb, riever, verbid, verged, verger, verier, voider.

-5 letters: beige, bevor, bider.

+3 letters: overburdening.