Commentary: BRIDGE[+entity][+artifact][+construction][+span][+navigable][+elevated]
Examples:
Several bridges over the river fell down during the big earthquake.
That bridge is an overpass of the north-south freeway.
Erosion left a natural land bridge of sandstone between the two rock outcrops.
The boy was injured playing on a railroad bridge.
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: BRIDGE[+relation][+role][+connector]
NOTE: this is an abstract notion of linkage, not a concrete object that connects things
Examples:
A committee was formed to create a bridge between the rival political factions.
His idea provides the major conceptual bridge between the fields of micro and macro-evolutionary study.
That architectural style is the bridge between early and late neoclassical structure.
She's burned a lot of bridges at work through her conduct. (metaphoric extension)
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Commentary: BRIDGE[+structure][+physical][+anatomical][+nose][+ridge]
Examples:
A fast ball hit John on the bridge of his nose and cracked it.
She admired the high bridge of the aristocrat's nose.
The surgeon reconstructed the bridge of the patient's nose after the accident.
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4
Commentary: BRIDGE[+activity][+diversion][+game][+card]
Examples:
We need a fourth person in order to play bridge.
Mary is having a bridge party at her house this evening.
In contract bridge, one player is the dummy.
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5
Commentary: BRIDGE[+entity][+artifact][+support][+wooden][+instrument][+stringed]
Examples:
What kind of wood is the bridge of your violin made of?
This 12-string guitar has a rather sturdy bridge.
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6
Commentary: BRIDGE[+entity][+artifact][+support][+denture][+partial]
NOTE: implies there are existing teeth on either side of the bridge
Examples:
John has a lower bridge to replace two lost teeth.
The dentist told the patient that a new bridge would cost about a thousand dollars.
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7
Commentary: BRIDGE[+entity][+artifact][+link][+lenses][+spectacles]
Examples:
The optician adjusted the bridge of Mary's new wireframe glasses.
These sunglasses have a special nose bridge for comfort.
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 8
Commentary: BRIDGE[+location][+vessel][+deck][+upper] [+relation][+role][+command_center] [+structure][+deck][+elevated]
Examples:
The captain of the cruise ship gave some of the passengers a tour of the bridge.
Who is manning the bridge while the captain and first officer are off the ship?
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 9
Commentary: BRIDGE[+entity][+artifact][+device][+electronics][+circuit]
Examples:
Power supplies often use a bridge circuit.
All three types of bridge circuits compare the output of two potentiometers sharing a common source.
Mappings:
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary: BRIDGE[+structure][+abstract][+musical][+passage][+transitional]
Examples:
I can play the main melody of the song, but the bridge is a little tricky.
There's 12 bars in a major key, but the bridge switches into a minor one.
Mappings:
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 1g
Commentary: BRIDGE[+entity][+artifact][+support][+wooden][+pool_cue]
Examples:
John used a bridge to support his pool cue for the tricky shot.
I think the bridge is hanging under the pool table.
Mappings:
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 1e
Commentary: BRIDGE[+entity][+artifact][+device][+electronics][+network][+data][+transfer]
Examples:
This chapter of the book describes how bridges, routers and repeaters are used in networks.
Network bridges operate at a lower level of the network than routers.
Mappings:
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: network_bridge
Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)
Examples:
Mappings: