BRIDGES

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IPA (US):

• BRIDGES (noun)
  The noun BRIDGES has 1 sense:

1. United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)

  Familiarity information: BRIDGES used as a noun is very rare.

• BRIDGES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bridges; Harry Bridges

Instance hypernyms:

labor leader (a leader of a labor movement)

 Context examples 

An adaptor protein which bridges cell surface tyrosine kinase receptors with downstream signal transmitters such as ras p21.

(GRB2 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

A carbohydrate comprised of eleven or more monosaccharides joined by ether bridges (covalent bonds centered by an oxygen).

(Dietary Polysaccharide, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Bound to TGFBR2 and TNFRSF6 FAS death domain via C-terminus, DAXX bridges apoptotic FAS activation with caspase-independent ASK1 activation of JNK.

(Death Domain-Associated Protein 6, NCI Thesaurus)

The high winds and heavy rains can destroy buildings, roads and bridges, and knock down power lines and trees.

(Hurricanes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Type 1 Cystatins contain multiple cystatin-like domains and lack disulfide bridges.

(Kininogen Family Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Broken fences, crumbling walls, vineyards littered with stones, the shattered arches of bridges—look where you might, the signs of ruin and rapine met the eye.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A carbohydrate comprised of three to ten monosaccharides joined by ether bridges (covalent bonds centered by an oxygen).

(Oligosaccharide, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Intercellular bridges and cytoplasmic keratinization may be present, but keratin pearls are absent.

(Cervical Non-Keratinizing Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Intercellular bridges and cytoplasmic keratinization are usually present.

(Cervical Keratinizing Squamous Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The fences and houses and bridges were all painted bright red, just as they had been painted yellow in the country of the Winkies and blue in the country of the Munchkins.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)