spæn any of various card games based on whist for four players make a bridge across bridge a river cross over on a bridge connect or reduce the distance between a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands the link between two lenses; rests on the nose a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth a wooden support that holds the strings up a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose something resembling a bridge in form or function his letters provided a bridge across the centuries