ALL meanings of paint bridge
paint bridge
P p - noun paint bridge a structure spanning and providing passage over a river, chasm, road, or the like. 1
- noun paint bridge a connecting, transitional, or intermediate route or phase between two adjacent elements, activities, conditions, or the like: Working at the hospital was a bridge between medical school and private practice. 1
- noun paint bridge Nautical. a raised transverse platform from which a power vessel is navigated: often includes a pilot house and a chart house. any of various other raised platforms from which the navigation or docking of a vessel is supervised. a bridge house or bridge superstructure. a raised walkway running fore-and-aft. 1
- noun paint bridge Anatomy. the ridge or upper line of the nose. 1
- noun paint bridge Dentistry. an artificial replacement, fixed or removable, of a missing tooth or teeth, supported by natural teeth or roots adjacent to the space. 1
- noun paint bridge Music. a thin, fixed wedge or support raising the strings of a musical instrument above the sounding board. a transitional, modulatory passage connecting sections of a composition or movement. (in jazz and popular music) the contrasting third group of eight bars in a thirty-two-bar chorus; channel; release. 1
- noun paint bridge Also, bridge passage. a passage in a literary work or a scene in a play serving as a movement between two other passages or scenes of greater importance. 1
- noun paint bridge Ophthalmology. the part of a pair of eyeglasses that joins the two lenses and rests on the bridge or sides of the nose. 1
- noun paint bridge Also called bridge circuit. Electricity. a two-branch network, including a measuring device, as a galvanometer, in which the unknown resistance, capacitance, inductance, or impedance of one component can be measured by balancing the voltage in each branch and computing the unknown value from the known values of the other components. Compare Wheatstone bridge. 1
- noun paint bridge Railroads. a gantry over a track or tracks for supporting waterspouts, signals, etc. 1
- noun paint bridge Building Trades. a scaffold built over a sidewalk alongside a construction or demolition site to protect pedestrians and motor traffic from falling materials. 1
- noun paint bridge Metallurgy. a ridge or wall-like projection of fire brick or the like, at each end of the hearth in a metallurgical furnace. any layer of partially fused or densely compacted material preventing the proper gravitational movement of molten material, as in a blast furnace or cupola, or the proper compacting of metal powder in a mold. 1
- noun paint bridge (in a twist drill) the conoid area between the flutes at the drilling end. 1
- noun paint bridge Billiards, Pool. the arch formed by the hand and fingers to support and guide the striking end of a cue. a notched piece of wood with a long handle, used to support the striking end of the cue when the hand cannot do so comfortably; rest. 1
- noun paint bridge transitional music, commentary, dialogue, or the like, between two parts of a radio or television program. 1
- noun paint bridge Theater. a gallery or platform that can be raised or lowered over a stage and is used by technicians, stagehands, etc., for painting scenery (paint bridge) arranging and supporting lights (light bridge) or the like. British. a part of the floor of a stage that can be raised or lowered. 1
- noun paint bridge Horology. a partial plate, supported at both ends, holding bearings on the side opposite the dial. Compare cock1 (def 10). 1
- noun paint bridge Chemistry. a valence bond illustrating the connection of two parts of a molecule. 1
- noun paint bridge a support or prop, usually timber, for the roof of a mine, cave, etc. 1
- noun paint bridge any arch or rooflike figure formed by acrobats, dancers, etc., as by joining and raising hands. 1
- verb with object paint bridge to make a bridge or passage over; span: The road bridged the river. 1
- verb with object paint bridge to join by or as if by a bridge: a fallen tree bridging the two porches. 1
- verb with object paint bridge to make (a way) by a bridge. 1
- verb without object paint bridge Foundry. (of molten metal) to form layers or areas heterogeneous either in material or in degree of hardness. 1
- adjective paint bridge (especially of clothing) less expensive than a manufacturer's most expensive products: showing his bridge line for the fall season. 1
- idioms paint bridge burn one's bridges (behind one), to eliminate all possibilities of retreat; make one's decision irrevocable: She burned her bridges when she walked out angrily. 1