noun:

1. A point in a line where a break in a word unit cannot occur.
2. A prosthesis replacing one or several adjacent teeth.
3. A defensive position in which the wrestler is supported by his feet and head, belly-up, in order to prevent touch-down of the shoulders and eventually to dislodge an opponent who has established a position on top.
4. Anything supported at the ends and serving to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
5. A solid crust of undissolved salt in a water softener.
6. An unintended solder connection between two or more components or pins.
7. A cue modified with a convex arch-shaped notched head attached to the narrow end, used to support a player's (shooter's) cue for extended or tedious shots. Also called a spider.
8. The situation where a lone rider or small group of riders closes the space between them and the rider or group in front.
9. A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
10. A day falling between two public holidays and consequently designated as an additional holiday.
11. The gap between the holes on a bowling ball.
12. Any of several electrical devices that measure characteristics such as impedance and inductance by balancing different parts of a circuit.
13. An edge which, if removed, changes a connected graph to one that is not connected.
14. A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; a bridge wall.
15. An arch or superstructure.
16. A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
17. A song contained within another song, often demarcated by meter, key, or melody.
18. A similar position in gymnastics.
19. A statement, such as an offer, that signals a possibility of accord.
20. A connection, real or abstract.
21. A software component connecting two or more separate systems.
22. An elevated platform above the upper deck of a mechanically propelled ship from which it is navigated and from which all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain, etc; smaller ships have a wheelhouse, and sailing ships were controlled from a quarterdeck.
23. A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.
24. A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from an elevated height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.
25. The piece, on string instruments, that supports the strings from the sounding board.
26. A system which connects two or more local area networks at layer 2 of OSI model.
27. The upper bony ridge of the human nose.
28. A rudimentary procedure before definite solution.
29. An intramolecular valence bond, atom or chain of atoms that connects two different parts of a molecule; the atoms so connected being bridgeheads.
30. A device which connects two or more computer buses, typically in a transparent manner.

verb:

1. To connect two or more computer buses, networks etc. with a bridge.
2. To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping.
3. To be or make a bridge over something.
4. To span as if with a bridge. The two groups were able to bridge their differences.
5. To go to the bridge position.

name:

1. A surname​.
2. A village in Kent, England.