Blue Rock Traditional Cache

Entertainment, arts, and media

Card games

• Bridge whist or straight bridge, the original game

• Auction bridge, the form of the card game popular from its derivation from whist and bridge whist in about 1903 until superseded by contract bridge beginning in 1926

• Contract bridge, the modern and most common form of bridge; derived from auction bridge primarily by means of changes to the scoring system

Any of these may be played as:

• Duplicate bridge, in which the same set of deals are played by all competitors, each scored separately, and then the results are based upon their relative performance

• Rubber bridge, the basic game, where two partnerships play until one has won two games, called a rubber

• Singaporean bridge, a re-invention of the game with very different rules

• Chicago (bridge card game), which is played similarly to rubber bridge but a session is limited to four deals

Fictional characters

• Bridge Carson, a Power Rangers character

Film

• Bridge (1949 film), a 1949 Chinese film, generally considered the first film produced in the Peoples Republic of China

• Bridge (1988 film), a 1988 USA–USSR film

Music

• Bridge (music), an interlude that connects two parts of song

• Bridge (instrument), the device that anchors the strings to or holds the strings above the body of a string instrument, such as a violin or guitar

  • 3rd bridge, an additional bridge added to a string instrument to produce overtones and a distinct timbre

• Bridge (Blues Traveler album)

• Bridge (Joey Cape album), Cape's first solo album, released in 2008

• Bridge (Speed album)

• Bridge Records, Inc., a record label

• Red House Painters (Bridge), the third album by Red House Painters, often referred to as the Bridge album.

• Bridge, a Japanese-language album by Hound Dog (band)

• W281BE, a radio station licensed to Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States called 104.1 the Bridge

Electronics, engineering and technology

• Adobe Bridge, digital asset management software

• Bridge, in clock- and watchmaking, a component in an ébauche

• Bridge circuit

  • Bridge rectifier, an electronic circuit for converting alternating current to direct current

  • H-bridge, an electronic circuit which enables DC electric motors to be run forwards or backwards

  • Wheatstone bridge, an electronic circuit for comparing resistors, capacitors or inductors to high standards of accuracy

• Bridge camera, generally considered to fill the niche between single-lens reflex (SLR) and compact point-and-shoot cameras

• Bridge pattern, a computer science design used to separate an abstraction and its actual implementation

• Bridging (networking), the action taken by IT network equipment to allow two or more communication networks to create an amalgamated network

• Protocol bridge, an electronics device or piece of software that translates from one communications protocol or programming API to another

People

• Bridge (surname)

Places

• Bridge, California, a former town in Fresno County

• Bridge, Kent, in Kent, England

• Bridge River, a river in British Columbia, Canada

• Bridge River Cones, a group of volcanoes in British Columbia, Canada

• Bridge of Allan, a number of places in Scotland

• Bridge (ward), a ward in London

Science and mathematics

• Bridge (chemical), an unbranched chain of atoms or an atom or a covalent bond connecting two bridgeheads in a polycyclic compound

  • Salt bridge (protein) (or salt bond), in protein chemistry, is the term used to denote chemical bonds between positively and negatively charged side-chains of proteins

• Bridge (graph theory), an edge whose removal disconnects a graph

• Myocardial bridge, a heart defect

• Salt bridge, in chemistry, a laboratory device used to connect the oxidation and reduction half-cells of a galvanic cell (electrochemical cell)

• Brownian bridge, in probability theory, the conditional distribution of a process pinned both at the origin and at the end point.

Transportation

• Bridge (nautical), the area of a ship from which it is commanded

• SS Empire Bridge or SS Bridge, an Empire ship

• USS Bridge, several ships of the name.

• Bridge-class OBO carrier, a class of ship

• Bridge class stores ship, a class of ship

Other uses

• Bridge (dentistry), a fixed prosthesis used to replace missing teeth

• Bridge (exercise), most commonly, the balancing of the body on the head and feet

• Bridge (grappling), in wrestling, a move intended to dislodge an opponent in top control

• Bridge (interpersonal), in social networks, a relationship that acts as a communication channel between different groups

• Bridge loan, a short-term loan to cover a gap in time until a new long-term financing is realized

• Bridge program (higher education), a higher education program