Bridge: Definition and part of speech

Bridge

n. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; — usually called a bridge wall.
n. A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
n. Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
n. The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
n. A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. The act or practice of giving or taking bribes; the act of influencing the official or political action of another by corrupt inducements.
n. Robbery; extortion.

n. Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.

n. A good fellow; a merry person; as, you ‘re a brick.
n. A block or clay tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp.
n. Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.
n. Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).