Bridged vs. Unabridged: What's the Difference?

A structure spanning and providing passage over a gap or barrier, such as a river or roadway.

Containing the original content; not condensed. Used of books, articles, and documents.

Something resembling or analogous to this structure in form or function

(of a book or document) Not abridged, shortened, expurgated or condensed; complete.

The upper bony ridge of the human nose.

An unabridged publication, especially a reference work

The part of a pair of eyeglasses that rests against this ridge.

Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.

A fixed or removable replacement for one or several but not all of the natural teeth, usually anchored at each end to a natural tooth.

(used of texts) not shortened;

A thin, upright piece of wood in some stringed instruments that supports the strings above the soundboard.

A transitional passage connecting two subjects or movements.

(Nautical) A crosswise platform or enclosed area above the main deck of a ship from which the ship is controlled.

A long stick with a notched plate at one end, used to steady the cue in billiards. Also called rest1.

The hand used as a support to steady the cue.

Any of various instruments for measuring or comparing the characteristics, such as impedance or inductance, of a conductor.

An electrical shunt.

(Chemistry) An intramolecular connection that spans atoms or groups of atoms.

To build a bridge over.

To cross by or as if by a bridge.

Simple past tense and past participle of bridge

Equipped with a bridge (in many contexts).