present participle of bridge

That acts as a bridge (in many contexts)

The act of building a bridge. / (architecture) The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.

Obsolete form of bridge.

plural of bridging

a skew bridge

A temporary system of shuttle buses bypassing a failure, overhaul, or other outage in some other mode of transit (usually rail).

A type of movable bridge that carries a segment of suspended roadway across a river.

A guard railing.

A dental prosthetic replacing a missing tooth by a bridging piece which is glued to the backs of the adjacent teeth (as opposed to an ordinary dental bridge, which is attached by grinding down the adjacent teeth and covering them).