"swing bridge" meaning in All languages combined

See swing bridge on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: swing bridges [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} swing bridge (plural swing bridges)
  1. A movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its centre of gravity, about which the turning span can then pivot horizontally. Wikipedia link: swing bridge Categories (topical): Bridges Synonyms: swingbridge Translations (movable bridge): вдигащ се мост (vdigašt se most) (Bulgarian), kääntösilta (Finnish), pont tournant [masculine] (French), droichead lúdrach [masculine] (Irish), luascdhroichead [masculine] (Irish), svingbro [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), svingbru [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), svingbru [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), поворо́тный мост (povorótnyj most) [masculine] (Russian)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for swing bridge meaning in All languages combined (3.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swing bridges",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "swing bridge (plural swing bridges)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Bridges",
          "orig": "en:Bridges",
          "parents": [
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Architecture",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 86",
          "text": "Turn right here and walk along the harbour side to the swing bridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 44",
          "text": "Then we cross a white swing bridge over the wide Caledonian Canal, which is opened several times a day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its centre of gravity, about which the turning span can then pivot horizontally."
      ],
      "id": "en-swing_bridge-en-noun-0DOaEYKF",
      "links": [
        [
          "movable",
          "movable"
        ],
        [
          "bridge",
          "bridge"
        ],
        [
          "structural",
          "structural"
        ],
        [
          "support",
          "support"
        ],
        [
          "vertical",
          "vertical"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "swingbridge"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "vdigašt se most",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "word": "вдигащ се мост"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "word": "kääntösilta"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "pont tournant"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "droichead lúdrach"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "luascdhroichead"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "svingbro"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "svingbru"
        },
        {
          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "svingbru"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "povorótnyj most",
          "sense": "movable bridge",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "поворо́тный мост"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "swing bridge"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "swing bridge"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "swing bridges",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "swing bridge (plural swing bridges)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Bridges"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 86",
          "text": "Turn right here and walk along the harbour side to the swing bridge.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 44",
          "text": "Then we cross a white swing bridge over the wide Caledonian Canal, which is opened several times a day.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its centre of gravity, about which the turning span can then pivot horizontally."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "movable",
          "movable"
        ],
        [
          "bridge",
          "bridge"
        ],
        [
          "structural",
          "structural"
        ],
        [
          "support",
          "support"
        ],
        [
          "vertical",
          "vertical"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "swing bridge"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "swingbridge"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vdigašt se most",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "word": "вдигащ се мост"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "word": "kääntösilta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pont tournant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "droichead lúdrach"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "luascdhroichead"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "svingbro"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "svingbru"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "svingbru"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "povorótnyj most",
      "sense": "movable bridge",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "поворо́тный мост"
    }
  ],
  "word": "swing bridge"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.