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  Bridge (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bridge (exercise), most commonly the balancing of the body on the head and feet.
Bridge (instrument), the device that anchors the strings to the body of a modern string instrument such as the electric guitar.
Bridge loan, a short-term loan to cover a gap in time until a new long-term financing is realised.
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 Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A bridge is usually either designed for trains, pedestrian or road traffic or may carry a pipeline or waterway for water transport or barge traffic.
This kind of bridge is particularly pleasing to the visual senses, with the most beautiful of the type being generally acknowleged as the Golden Gate Bridge at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
Smaller moveable bridges, called jetways, are used in airports to allow passengers to cross the variable distances and heights between the terminal building and aircraft of varying sizes.
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 Bridge article - Bridge suspended deck compression arch road railroad track river water - What-Means.com
Since most early bridges of this type were constructed largely of wood, it is typical that they are either formed from treated wood (typically using creosote) or are protected with a roof and enclosed in building-like siding, forming a covered bridge.
Owing to practical limitation in the grade and the response to dynamic loads of the bridge deck this type is quite restricted in its load carrying capacity relative to its span.
This kind of bridge is particularly pleasing to the visual senses, with the most beautiful of the type being generally acknowledged as the Golden Gate Bridge at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
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 London Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Rufus levied a tax to fund the new stone bridge, and construction of a new stone bridge was begun in the reign of Henry II, under de Colechurch's direction, in 1176.
The population of the bridge was such that it was made a ward of the City with its own alderman, which it retained until the 18th century.
Rennie's bridge was constructed from Dartmoor granite, with a length of 928 feet (283 m) and a width of 49 feet (15 m).
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 Encyclopedia: Bridge (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A log bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle.
Bridge of the brigantine LEtoile The bridge of a ship is an area or room where the ships navigational controls and other essential equipment related to ship operations are housed and operated.
A Wheatstone bridge is a measuring instrument invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1843.
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 London_Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
London Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames, between the City of London and Southwark.
On the south side of the bridge is Southwark Cathedral and London Bridge station.
Rennie's bridge was constructed from Dartmoor granite, with a length of 928 feet (283 m)and a width of 49 feet (15 m).
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These rope bridges must of course be periodically renewed owing to the limited lifetime of the materials, and rope components are made and contributed by families as contributions to a community endevor.
This kind of bridge is particularly pleasing to the visual senses, with one beautiful example of the type being the Golden Gate Bridge at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
A bridge type combining elements of a suspended-deck suspension bridge and a cable stayed bridge has been proposed as a replacement for the eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and would be the largest bridge this type constructed.
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 Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For example, it may be a bridge carrying a highway and forbidden for pedestrians and bicycles, or a pedestrian bridge, possibly also for bicycles.
An aqueduct is a bridge that carries water, resembling a viaduct.
Bridges may be classified by how the four forces of tension, compression, bending and shear are distributed through their structure.
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Bridge loans are typically taken out for a period of 2 weeks to 3 years in order to finance other projects.
Bridge loans are used in real estate transactions to cover the down payment on a new home, when the borrower has equity in his old home, but not enough cash.It is generally a short term, interest only loan that is repaid when the homeowner sells his old house....
You may take out a bridge loan, or interim financing, to help with a knotty situation: closing on the home you are buying before you close on the property you are selling.
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 Bridge (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A bridge is a dental prosthesis used in place of missing teeth and may be removable or permanently attached.
Electronics: a bridge is an electronic device used to connect two segments of a computer network (combining two networks) or of a telephone network (to support multi-party conference call on telephone).
A bridge, short for bridge loan is the financing for a construction project that is replaced by (paid off with the proceeds of) a mortgage on the property once it is built.
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 Bridge (disambiguation) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Bridge or (A variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid) contract bridge is also the name of a (A game played with playing cards) card game.
Historically, "bridge" could also refer to other games that were superseded by contract bridge, notably (A variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge) auction bridge.
Bridge is a place in (A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans) Kent, (A division of the United Kingdom) England.
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 Bridge -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The first bridges were spans made of wooden logs or planks and eventually stones, using a simple support and crossbeam arrangement.
For example, it may be a bridge carrying a (A major road for any form of motor transport) highway and forbidden for (A person who travels by foot) pedestrians and (A wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals) bicycles, or a pedestrian bridge, possibly also for bicycles
An (A conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley) aqueduct is a bridge that carries water, resembling a viaduct.
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 The world's top Bridge websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In such bridges, the roadbed of the bridge may follow the downward and upward arc of the load bearing cables, with additional light ropes at a higher level used to form handholds.
Bridges are usually composed of pairs of towers, but the method is not restricted to this form.
To allow ships to pass which can not pass under it, a bridge may be constructed such that it (or part of it) can be turned up (drawbridge; either one part or two) or sideways (swing bridge).
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 ipedia.com: Bridge (disambiguation) Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Terrestrial: A bridge is a structure built so that a road, railway, or other transportation route can cross above an obstacle such as a river, valley, or another road.
"Bridge" is also short for diode bridge or bridge rectifier, a simple electronic device to produce DC current.
A bridging loan is a short-term loan to cover a gap in time between two long-term loans.
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 wikien.info: Main_Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The reconstructed bridge was destroyed by a storm in 1091 and destroyed yet again, this time by fire, in 1136.
In 1799, a competition for designs to replace the old bridge was held, prompting the engineer Thomas Telford to propose a bridge with a single iron arch spanning 600ft.
In 1968, Rennie's bridge was sold to the American entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch for the sum of $2,460,000 (it has been claimed that he was under the mistaken belief that he was buying Tower Bridge).
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On the south side of the bridge is Southwark Cathedral and the London Bridge rail station.
The buildings on London Bridge created a major fire hazard and served to increase the load on its arches, so it is not surprising that there were several disasters.
Thomas Telford to propose a bridge with a single iron arch spanning 600ft.
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 Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, railroadrailroad track, river, body of water/, or any other physical obstacle.
A bridge is usually designed for trains, pedestrian or road traffic, a pipeline transportpipeline or waterway for water transport or barge traffic.
Workers blast bridge segment at Charleston, S.C. Workers on Tuesday used explosives to send a 500-foot segment of an aging bridge plunging into the water, one of two spans replaced by the futuristic Ravenel Bridge, the longest one of its kind in North America.
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 Bridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The arch was first used by the Roman Empire for bridges and aqueducts, some of which still stand today.
Brick and mortar bridges were built after the Roman era, as the technology for cement was lost but it was refound.
Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere Photos, information, and maps of historic bridges in and around Michigan.
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 Encyclopedia: London Bridge (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The current London Bridge London Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames, between the City of London and Southwark.
Outside view Platform London Bridge station is a railway station in central London (in the London Borough of Southwark), occupying a large area on two levels, immediately south-east of London Bridge.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 JOT: Journal of Object Technology - CentiJ: An RMI Code Generator
The legacy bridge problem may be stated simply as follows, given a large number of methods in a variety of classes, find a single interface to these methods and an implementing class so that there is a reuse of the implementations in the existing (i.e., legacy code).
The bridge pattern consists of an interface, or protocol of communication and an implementation of the communication.
The bridge pattern serves to regulate the communications between the legacy code and the new code.
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 San Francisco, California article - San Francisco, California Francisco (disambiguation) Bridge California United ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the foreground is downtown, the waterfront, and the Bay Bridge.
It was a center of the dot-com boom at the end of the century.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was opened in 1936 and the Golden Gate Bridge in 1937.
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 Encyclopedia of Musical Topics -Bridge (disambiguation) -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Transportation: a bridge is a structure built to carry a way across an obstacle, such as a valley.
In song writing, a bridge is a part of a song that connects two parts of that song, building a harmonic connection between those parts.
Dentistry: a bridge, or partial plate, is a dental prosthesis used in place of missing teeth and may be removable or permanently attached.
www.musicwalrus.com /Musical_Topics/bridge_(disambiguation).htm   (445 words)

  
 Forth Bridge (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term "Forth Bridge" is the correct term for the railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
However, since the completion of the road bridge in the mid 1960s the term has become ambiguous and can refer to:
The Forth Bridge (railway) (by far the more famous)
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 definition:Nut - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A nut is a small strip of hard material used to stop string vibrations on some stringed instruments.
It is located at the upper end of a fingerboard and, along with the bridge, defines the vibrating lengths of the strings.
Nut is a slang term for testicle, and also for male ejaculate.
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 bridge - OneLook Dictionary Search
Bridge (nt), bridge, bridge, bridge, bridge, bridge (m) : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include bridge: wheatstone bridge, suspension bridge, auction bridge, bridge loan, brooklyn bridge, more...
Words similar to bridge: span, bridgeable, bridged, bridgeing, bridgeless, bridgework, bridging, nosepiece, bridge circuit, bridge deck, bridge over, viaduct, more...
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 Brooklyn,_New_York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This boundary is defined in its westernmost section by Newtown Creek, crossed by Kosciusko Bridge and Pulaski Bridge, which flows into the East River.
At its westernmost section, Brooklyn is closest to Staten Island at the Narrows, and the two are connected there by the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which separates Upper and Lower New York Bays.
The southeastern coast lies on island-filled Jamaica Bay and is connected to Rockaway by the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge, named after the Brooklyn Dodgers' first baseman who made his home in the borough.
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