Meadow vs Bridge - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between meadow and bridge

is that meadow is a field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river while bridge is a construction or natural feature that spans a divide.

As a proper noun Meadow

is a town in Texas.

As a verb bridge is

to be or make a bridge over something.

meadow

English

(wikipedia meadow)

Noun

(en noun)

A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.

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Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

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, volume=101, issue=1, page=59, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

Derived terms

* catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow

bridge

English

Alternative forms

* bridg (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) brigge, from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) briggen, from (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges , hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}

# (senseid)(label) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.

# (label) A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.

# (bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball

An arch or superstructure.

# (label) An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.

# (label) The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.

# A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.

# A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.

# Anything supported at the ends and serving 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.

# (label) A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.

A connection, real or abstract.

# (label) A rudimentary procedure before definite solution

# (label) A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.

# (label) A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2.

# (label) An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.

# (label) An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.

# (label) A song contained within another song, often demarcated by meter, key, or melody.

# (label) An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.

# (label) A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.

# (label) A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.

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

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

A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.

Derived terms

* Bailey bridge * bridge loan * bridge mount * bridge the gap * bridge over troubled waters * cross that bridge when one comes to it * drawbridge * footbridge * ice bridge * Kelvin bridge * land bridge * low bridge * Maryland bridge * Schering bridge * suspension bridge * swing bridge, swingbridge * water under the bridge * Wheatstone bridge * Wien bridge

Verb

(bridg)

To be or make a bridge over something.

With enough cable, we can bridge this gorge.

To span as if with a bridge.

The two groups were able to bridge their differences.

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

We need to bridge that jam into "The Eleven".

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

(wrestling) To go to the bridge position.

Etymology 2

Name of an older card game biritch , probably (etyl) , "one-three". "bridge." *OED 2nd edition. 1989. (online) "bridge." Online Etymology Dictionary. 2008.

Noun

(-)

(card games) A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.

Bidding is an essential element of the game bridge .

References

Anagrams

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