Bridges is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BRIDGES in dictionary:

VERB:
• BRIDGE, to connect across a gap
NOUN:
• something intended to reconcile or connect two seemingly incompatible things
• the central part of a pair of glasses, fitting over the bridge of the nose
• a long stick with a frame at the end which is used to support a cue for a difficult shot.
• a structure carrying a road, path, railway, etc. across a river, road, or other obstacle
• the elevated, enclosed platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations
• a partial denture supported by natural teeth on either side.
• the part of a stringed instrument over which the strings are stretched
• a bridge passage or middle eight.
• the support for the tip of a billiard cue formed by the hand.
• an electric circuit with two branches across which a detector or load is connected, used to measure resistance or other property by equalizing the potential across the two ends of a detector, or to rectify an alternating voltage or current.
• 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.
• make (a difference between two groups) smaller or less significant
• be or make a bridge over (something)
• United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)
• the upper bony part of a person's nose

Words related to BRIDGES

bridge10 bridged12 bridging13

Words that contain BRIDGES

abridges12 flybridges20 skybridges21 drawbridges19 footbridges18 overbridges18 telebridges15 tollbridges15 underbridges17 weighbridges23

How to use BRIDGES in a sentence

• But there he is now, building bridges across mountains just as wild as these, in Hungary.
• Some were even taken out in the dead of night and hanged to railway bridges.
• The second of these vast railway bridges crosses the Menai Straits, which separate Caernarvon from the island of Anglesey.
• The nights were often cold and wet, and it became necessary for me to make my couch under bridges or in caves or holes of the earth.
• The picturesque mill bridges across the Marne have been partly saved.
• Karen grows vain of her red shoes, and is forced to dance over the fields, across the bridges, and everywhere CHAPTER THIRD.
• When Chris left I had a chance to burn my bridges and I burned them.
• He had ordered all the baggage wagons loaded, ready to retreat, for he was by no means the kind of general who burns his bridges behind him.
• The flower-women at the corners of the bridges had their baskets full of odorous violets.
• Rounding a wooded corner towards sunset she came suddenly upon the bridges and the palace and the gardens of Stockholm.
• One day Bridges came to see me, and brought me this watch I wear now, a present from the company.
• CHAPTER XXIX Not unusually, when we burn our bridges, we have in the back of our minds the dim hope that there may be a shallow ford somewhere.
• He founded, too, the Ulpian Library at Rome, and adorned every part of his empire with magnificent buildings, roads, bridges, and various useful improvements.
• The Oder, which here breaks into several arms, divides the city into two unequal halves, crossed by numerous bridges.
• Ordinarily bridges are fixed bridges, but there are also movable bridges with machinery for opening a clear and unobstructed passage way for navigation.
• Some of these timber bridges are said to have lasted ninety years with ordinary repairs, but they were road bridges not heavily loaded.
• This bridge suffered some injury in a storm, but it is still in good condition and one of the most graceful of bridges.
• The bridges across the Passaic have apparently been erected without reference to channel capacity.
• Both bridges across it had been cut by the Germans.
• Ouer the streams are sundry bridges both of timber and stone, which being made leuel with the streets, hinder not the passage of the barges too and fro, the chanels are so deepe.
• He was buried in the family vault at Bridges Creek, and left a good estate to be divided among his children.
• They have the power of levying a county rate for roads, bridges, and other public accommodations.
• The Mexicans fell back to a large town called Ozucar, where they joined another great body of their countrymen, who fortified themselves in that post, and broke down the bridges.
• In consequence of this intelligence, the general sent orders to the chiefs to provide canoes and construct bridges at the proper places, but neither of these things were done.
• In this manner chiefly were all the bridges of communication torn to pieces, and scarcely had the troops who fought in front time to leap to the second line of ships.
• There were no bridges across the little river, nor were there boats enough to carry the army across.
• Meanwhile they were made useful in building the military roads, bridges, and walls.
• Hence he could not have confounded bridges, one of which he never saw.
• Under favorable circumstances such bridges can be built at the rate of 200 to 300 feet per hour, and they can be taken up at a still more rapid rate.

Similar words containing BRIDGE without suffix s

bridge10 abridge11 bridged12 abridged13 abridger12 abridges12 abridgers13 flybridge19 skybridge20 unbridged14 bridgeable16 bridgehead18 bridgeless14 bridgework21 drawbridge18 flybridges20 footbridge17 overbridge17 skybridges21 telebridge14 tollbridge14 unabridged15 bridgelike18 abridgeable17 abridgement17 bridgeboard18 bridgeheads19 bridgeworks22 drawbridges19 footbridges18 overbridged19 overbridges18 telebridges15 tollbridges15 underbridge16 weighbridge22 abridgements18 bridgeboards19 unbridgeable18 underbridges17 weighbridges23

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