bridging

[ brij-ing ]

/ ˈbrɪdʒ ɪŋ /

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noun Building Trades.

a brace or an arrangement of braces fixed between floor or roof joists to keep them in place.

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Origin of bridging

First recorded in 1830–40; bridge¹ + -ing¹

Words nearby bridging

bridgetree, Bridge View, bridgewall, Bridgewater, bridgework, bridging, bridging loan, bridging shot, Bridgman, bridgmanite, Bridgwater

How to use bridging in a sentence

Bridging the divide between the police and those who distrust them will take more than protests and symbolic gestures.
How to Solve the Policing Crisis|Keli Goff|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The best, or at least most successful, are bridging the gap between punk-rock DIY ethos and social-media savvy.
On Tour With The Head and the Heart, Indie Rock’s Next Big Thing|James Joiner|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bridging the world of The Patty Duke Show and Mary Tyler Moore, That Girl was a game changer.
Comedians and Feminism Getting Laughs|Agunda Okeyo|October 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Phillips and her co-authors suggest that work activities may be better-suited than social ones for bridging racial divides.
Office Parties Are Bad for Business|Jesse Singal|December 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST

He talks about bridging the much-discussed military-and-civilian divide.
A Night Along the Military-Civilian Divide: An Iraq Vet in New York|Matt Gallagher|April 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Now it is well understood that in many positions this system is the simplest and most economical method of bridging.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
There were many engineering difficulties to be overcome, the chiefest of which was the bridging of the Motagua River.
Guatemala, the country of the future|Charles M. Pepper
His earnestness impresses her ladyship; trust a bright girl for bridging over a trifling difficulty such as this.
Miss Caprice|St. George Rathborne
And he rushed into work, into danger, when he thought of that; risked terrible leaps in “Bridging the Abyss.”
The Bill-Toppers|Andre Castaigne
Those gantries furnish us with an example of another sort of construction in wood which can be and is often used in bridging.
The Romance of War Inventions|Thomas W. Corbin

British Dictionary definitions for bridging

bridging

/ (ˈbrɪdʒɪŋ) /

noun

one or more timber struts fixed between floor or roof joists to stiffen the construction and distribute the loads

mountaineering a technique for climbing a wide chimney by pressing left hand and foot against one side of it and right hand and foot against the other side

rugby Union an illegal move in which a player leans down and forward onto the body of a prone player in a ruck, thereby preventing opposing players from winning the ball by fair rucking

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bridging

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