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engineering's quiet brag — turning a fatal gap into a Tuesday commute
means Structures built to carry a path, road, or rail across an obstacle like a river, valley, or another road — and by extension, anything that connects two separated things.
from From Old English 'brycg,' a word with deep Germanic roots — kin to Dutch 'brug' and German 'Brücke.' Linguists trace these back to a Proto-Germanic ancestor and possibly a Proto-Indo-European root meaning something like 'log' or 'beam,' which fits: the first bridges were likely just a felled tree laid across a stream. The figurative sense — bridging a gap, a card game, the dental kind, the part of a song — all grew naturally from the literal one, since the whole point of a bridge is to join what's apart.
- march ban
- Soldiers break step crossing, lest rhythm shake bridges apart
- roman flex
- Some Roman bridges still carry traffic after 2,000 years
- selling con
- Brooklyn Bridge was famously sold to gullible tourists
- living kind
- India's root bridges are grown, not built, from trees
- expansion gaps
- They secretly stretch and shrink with summer and winter
golden gate bridge — suspension bridge in san francisco bay, opened 1937, 1.7 miles long
brooklyn bridge — cable-stayed bridge connecting manhattan and brooklyn, completed 1883
millau viaduct — tallest bridge in the world by deck height at 336 meters, opened 2004 in france
ponte vecchio — medieval arch bridge in florence spanning the arno river, built 1345