"bridge strike" meaning in English

See bridge strike in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: bridge strikes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bridge strike (plural bridge strikes)
  1. An instance of a vehicle or ship colliding with a bridge; most strikes by vehicles are by those which are too high to pass under a low overbridge.
    Sense id: en-bridge_strike-en-noun-KUDICynn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for bridge strike meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bridge strikes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bridge strike (plural bridge strikes)",
      "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"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 October 23, Rail, page 18",
          "text": "Transport for London is providing detailed information on height restrictions on tunnels and bridges in the capital, in a bid to reduce the number of bridge strikes. [...] TfL is affected by at least two bridge strikes a month.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instance of a vehicle or ship colliding with a bridge; most strikes by vehicles are by those which are too high to pass under a low overbridge."
      ],
      "id": "en-bridge_strike-en-noun-KUDICynn",
      "links": [
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ],
        [
          "overbridge",
          "overbridge"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bridge strike"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bridge strikes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bridge strike (plural bridge strikes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 October 23, Rail, page 18",
          "text": "Transport for London is providing detailed information on height restrictions on tunnels and bridges in the capital, in a bid to reduce the number of bridge strikes. [...] TfL is affected by at least two bridge strikes a month.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An instance of a vehicle or ship colliding with a bridge; most strikes by vehicles are by those which are too high to pass under a low overbridge."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vehicle",
          "vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "ship",
          "ship"
        ],
        [
          "overbridge",
          "overbridge"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bridge strike"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.