Bridge (disambiguation)

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A bridge is a structure built so that a transportation route can cross above an obstacle.

Bridge can also refer to:

Entertainment, arts, and media

Card games

• Bridge whist or straight bridge, derived from whist
• Auction bridge, a further derivation popular in the early 20th century
• Contract bridge, the modern form of the game consisting of two main variants:
  • Duplicate bridge, in which the same set of deals are played by all competitors
  • Rubber bridge, the basic game, where two partnerships play until one has won two games, called a rubber

Additional variants:

• Singaporean bridge, a re-invention of the game with very different rules
• Chicago (bridge card game), which is played similarly to rubber bridge but a session is limited to four deals

Fictional characters

• Bridge Carson, a Power Rangers character

Film

• Bridge (1949 film), a 1949 Chinese film
• The Bridge (1969 film), a Yugoslav film
• Bridge (1988 film), a USA–USSR film

Novels

• The Bridge (1930), a long poem by Hart Crane
• The Bridge (1973), a science fiction novel by D. Keith Mano
• The Bridge (1986), a science fiction novel by Iain Banks
• The Bridge (1986), a fantasy novel by Jeri Massi
• The Bridge (1987), a short story by Franz Kafka
• The Bridge (1991), a horror novel by John Skipp and Craig Spector
• The Bridge (2000), a Christian novel by Lisa Tawn Bergren
• The Bridge (2000), a science fiction novel by Janine Ellen Young
• The Bridge (2001), a novel by Doug Marlette
• The Bridge (2003), a mystery novel by Solomon Jones
• Bridge (2011), a fantasy short story by Jeri Smith-Ready
• The Bridge (2011), a dystopian novel Jane Higgins
• The Bridge (2011), a novella by Kay Bratt
• The Bridge (2012), a romance novel by Karen Kingsbury
• The Bridge (2013), a romance novel by Ashley Pullo
• The Bridge (2013), a romance novel by Rebecca Rogers Maher
• Bridge (2014), a novel by Patrick Jones
• Bridge (2014), a novel by Robert Thomas
• The Bridge (2014), a thriller novel by C.L. Walker

Music

• Bridge (music), an interlude that connects two parts of song
• Bridge (instrument), the device that anchors the strings to or holds the strings above the body of a stringed instrument
  • 3rd bridge, an additional bridge added to a stringed instrument
• Bridge (Blues Traveler album)
• Bridge (Joey Cape album), 2008
• Bridge (Speed album)
• Bridge Records, Inc., a record label
• Red House Painters (Bridge), the third album by Red House Painters, often referred to as the Bridge album
• Bridge, a Japanese-language album by Hound Dog (band)
• W281BE, a radio station licensed to Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States called 104.1 the Bridge
• "Bridge" (song), a song by Queensrÿche

Electronics, engineering and technology

• Adobe Bridge, digital asset management software
• Bridge, in clock- and watchmaking, a component in an ébauche
• Bridge circuit
  • Bridge rectifier, an electronic circuit for converting alternating current to direct current
  • H-bridge, an electronic circuit which enables DC electric motors to be run forwards or backwards
  • Wheatstone bridge, an electronic circuit for comparing resistors, capacitors or inductors to high standards of accuracy
• Bridge camera, generally considered to fill the niche between single-lens reflex (SLR) and compact point-and-shoot cameras
• Bridge pattern, a computer science design used to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation
• Bridging (networking), the action taken by IT network equipment to allow two or more communication networks to create an amalgamated network
• Protocol bridge, an electronics device or piece of software that translates from one communications protocol or programming API to another

People

• Bridge (surname)

Places

• Bridge, California, United States, a former town in Fresno County
• Bridge, Kent, in Kent, England
• Bridge River, a river in British Columbia, Canada
• Bridge River Cones, a group of volcanoes in British Columbia, Canada
• Bridge of Allan, a number of places in Scotland
• Bridge (ward), a ward in London

Science and mathematics

• Bridge (chemical), an unbranched chain of atoms or an atom or a covalent bond connecting two bridgeheads in a polycyclic compound
  • Salt bridge (protein) (or salt bond), in protein chemistry, is the term used to denote chemical bonds between positively and negatively charged side-chains of proteins
• Bridge (graph theory), an edge whose removal disconnects a graph
• Myocardial bridge, a heart defect
• Salt bridge, in chemistry, a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell (electrochemical cell)
• Brownian bridge, in probability theory, the conditional distribution of a process pinned both at the origin and at the end point
• British Mid-Ocean Ridge Initiative

Transportation

• Bridge (nautical), the area of a ship from which it is commanded
• SS Empire Bridge or SS Bridge, an Empire ship
• USS Bridge, several ships of the name
• Bridge-class OBO carrier, a class of ship
• Bridge class stores ship, a class of ship

Other uses

• Bridge (dentistry), a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth
• Bridge (exercise), most commonly, the balancing of the body on the head and feet
• Bridge (grappling), in wrestling, a move intended to dislodge an opponent in top control
• Bridge (interpersonal), in social networks, a relationship that acts as a communication channel between different groups
• Bridge loan, a short-term loan to cover a gap in time until a new long-term financing is realised
• Bridge program (higher education), a higher education program
• Mechanical bridge, a piece of cue sports equipment

See also

• Bridge the gap (disambiguation)
• Bridge to Nowhere (disambiguation)
• Bridges (disambiguation)
• Stamford Bridge (disambiguation)
• The Bridge (disambiguation)