Word Finder - bridges

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A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.

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An arch or superstructure.

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A connection, real or abstract.

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Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit

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A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.

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The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.

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A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.

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To be or make a bridge over something.

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With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge.

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To span as if with a bridge.

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The two groups were able to bridge their differences.

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To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.

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(communication) To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.

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To go to the bridge position.

Don't burn your bridges behind you.

The river is crossed by two bridges, and its banks are bordered by picturesque old houses.

The bridges were all destroyed, and the old barriers from the war are back up.

We burned our bridges trying to get custody of Martha last winter.

He was author of the article "Bridges" in the ninth edition of this encyclopaedia.

The Neckar is spanned by two bridges.

The modern highroad follows the ancient line, and some of the original bridges still exist.

By means of bond labour roads and bridges were con structed, and a route opened into the interior beyond Rise of the Blue Mountains.

The city is divided by the rivers (including the small streams Lieve and Moere) and by canals, some navigable, into numerous islands connected by over 200 bridges of various sorts.

Two bridges connect the city with the borough of West Pittston (pop., 1 9 00, 5846).

In 1812 he was promoted general, and made director of roads and bridges.

In the meanwhile nearly all the French infantry posted between the two villages and in front of the bridges had been drawn into the fight on either flank.

The Danube bridges, which had broken down once already, had at last been cut by heavy barges, which had been set adrift down stream for the purpose by the Austrians.

Of the bridges which cross the canals by which Padua is now intersected, four go back to Roman times.

Dr Bridges took his M.A.

The cole des Fonts et Chausses at Paris is maintained by the government for the training of the engineers for the construction and upkeep of roads and bridges.

The former category comprises the maintenance of provincial roads, bridges and watercourse embankments;, secondary education, whenever this is n.ot provided for by private, institutions or by the state (elementary education being maintained by the communes), and the maintenance of foundlings and pauper lunatics.

In the reign of Tiberius he held the office of praetor, and was appointed to the superintendence of the roads and bridges.

At the time of Strabo and Horace, however, it was the practice to travel by canal from Forum Appii to Lucus Feroniae; to Nerva and Trajan were due the paving of the road and the repair of the bridges along this section.

Thus the scenery of a limestone country depends on the solubility and permeability of the rocks, leading to the typical Karst-formations of caverns, swallowholes and underground stream courses, with the contingent phenomena of dry valleys and natural bridges.

He encouraged commerce, and, by constructing highways and building bridges, did much to facilitate it.

It stands near the border of Victoria, on the right bank of the Murray river, here crossed by two bridges, one built of wood carrying a road, the other of iron bearing the railway.

Three or four piers or sometimes bridges of masonry are run out into the bed of the river, frequently from both sides at once, raising the level of the stream and thus giving a water power sufficient to turn the gigantic wheel or wheels, sometimes almost 40 ft.

Through this part of its course the current of the river, except where restricted by floating bridges - at Feluja, Mussaib, Hillah, Diwanieh and Samawa - does not normally exceed a mile an hour, and both on the main stream and on its canals the jerd or oxbucket takes the place of the naoura or water-wheel for purposes of irrigation.

Orihuela is situated in a beautiful and exceedingly fertile huerta, or tract of highly cultivated land, at the foot of a limestone bridge, and on both sides of the river Segura, which divides the city into two parts, Roig and San Augusto, and is spanned by two bridges.

Artels of one or two hundred carpenters, bricklayers, &c., are common wherever new buildings have to be erected, or railways or bridges constructed; the contractors always prefer to deal with an artel, rather than with separate workmen.

Bridges Adams, the intention being by " fishing " the joints to convert the rails into continuous beams. In the original design two chairs were placed, one under each rail, a few inches apart, as in fig.

When, however, a company desires to construct a line on a commercial scale, to acquire land compulsorily, to divert rivers and streams, to cross roads either on the level or by means of bridges, to pass near houses, to build tunnels or viaducts, and to execute all the other works incidental to a.

On the one hand he may make the line follow the natural inequalities of the ground as nearly as may be, avoiding the elevations and depressions by curves; or on the other he may aim at making it as nearly straight and level as possible by taking it through the elevations in cuttings or tunnels and across the depressions on embankments or bridges.

Larger rivers, canals, roads, other railways and sometimes deep narrow valleys are crossed by bridges (q.v.) of timber, brick, stone, wrought iron or steel, and many of these structures rank among the largest engineering works in the world.

In connexion with a railway many bridges have also to be constructed to carry public roads and other railways over the line, and for the use of owners or tenants whose land it has cut through (" accommodation bridges ").

There are no bridges, except where watercourses occur.

Of the bridges connecting the sections of the lower town the most interesting is the Obere Bri cke, completed in 1455.

All fines collected under the penal laws, all escheats and 2% of the receipts of toll roads and bridges go into the school fund, which is invested in state and Federal securities and the interest apportioned among the counties according to their school population.

The councils assess within certain limits the communal taxes, maintain roads, bridges, &c., and generally superintend local affairs.

The commissioners supervise the penal and charitable institutions, schools, roads, bridges and finances of the county.

The borough is connected with the City of London by Blackfriars, Southwark and London bridges; the thoroughfares leading from these and the other road-bridges as far up as Lambeth converge at St George's Circus; another important junction is the "Elephant and Castle."

He second wife was Joanna Bridges, said on very doubtful authority to have been a natural daughter of Charles I.

The Nith is crossed by three bridges and the railway viaduct.

Within the city's lines the river is crossed by two bridges (to Manchester) for vehicles and pedestrians, and three railway bridges.

The canals were crossed by wooden bridges without steps, and in the case of the wide Grand Canal the bridge at Rialto was carried on boats.

The early bridges were inclined planes and could easily be crossed by horses.

It was not till the city became more populous and when stone-stepped bridges were introduced that the use of horses died out.

On occasions of festivals or pageants the balconies, the bridges, the boats, and even the facades of the houses, were hung with rich Eastern carpets or patterned textiles in gold and coloured silk.

It consists of the old town on the left, the new town on the right, bank of the Werra, and BrUckenhausen on a small island connected with the old and new town by bridges.

Highroads, maintained by the government, traverse every part of the country, and bridges have been built across the Caledon.

Nevertheless, of the death of a man, and of a maihem done in great ships, being and hovering in the main stream of great rivers, only beneath the [[[bridges]]] of the same rivers [nigh] to the sea, and in none other places of the same rivers, the admiral shall have cognizance, and also to arrest ships in the great flotes for the great voyages of the king and of the realm; saving always to the king all manner of forfeitures and profits thereof coming; and he shall have also jurisdiction upon the said flotes, during the said voyages only; saving always to the lords, cities, and boroughs, their liberties and franchises."

There are several bridges over the river, the old wooden bridge having been replaced in 1905 by one built of stone.

It is served by the International & Great Northern, the National of Mexico, the Texas Mexican and the Rio Grande & Eagle Pass railways, and is connected by bridges with Nuevo Laredo.

It is pleasantly situated at the foot of a lofty range of hills, which here dip down to the river, at the junction of the main lines of railway from Bremen and Hanover to Hamburg, which are carried to the latter city over two grand bridges crossing the southern and the northern arms of the Elbe.