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BRIDGES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)
Synonyms:
Bridges; Harry Bridges
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
labor leader (a leader of a labor movement)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb bridge
Context examples:
These are basically of two types, ribonucleic (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic (DNA) acids, both of which consist of nucleotides (nucleoside phosphates linked together by phosphate bridges).
(Nucleic Acids, Nucleosides, and Nucleotides, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
They usually avoid elevators, bridges, and public places.
(Agoraphobia, NCI Dictionary)
The loss of astrocytes, a supporting cell in the brain, was most prominent in the corpus callosum, a part of the brain that bridges the two hemispheres.
(Study in mice identifies type of brain cell involved in stuttering, National Institutes of Health)
Thus, B-Cell Linker represents a central linker protein that bridges the B-cell receptor-associated kinases with a multitude of signaling pathways and may regulate biologic outcomes of B-cell function and development.
(B-Cell Linker, NCI Thesaurus)
The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life
(Architecture, NCI Thesaurus)
A craniopharyngioma consisting of broad strands, cords and bridges of a multistratified squamous epithelium with peripheral palisading of nuclei.
(Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)
This acknowledgment comprises about 4-6 years of university study in total with a professional engineering discipline that deals with the construction and design of public and private sector works such as bridges, roads, dams and buildings.
(Master of Civil Engineering, NCI Thesaurus)
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A dozen times, Perrault, nosing the way broke through the ice bridges, being saved by the long pole he carried, which he so held that it fell each time across the hole made by his body.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Impaired Cytoskeletal Integrity consists of activities that interfere with, or restrain, fabrication, construction, or maintenance of the network of protein scaffolding, filaments, tubules, and interconnecting filamentous bridges (microfilaments, microtubules, intermediate filaments, and associated proteins) that give shape, structure, and organization to the cytoplasm and to a cell.
(Impaired Cytoskeletal Integrity, NCI Thesaurus)
