What's the difference between bridge and viaduct?

Bridge


Definition:

  • (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
  • (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves 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.
  • (n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
  • (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
  • (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
  • (v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
  • (v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
  • (v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
  • (2) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
  • (3) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
  • (4) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (5) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
  • (6) Acute coronary angiography showed myocardial bridging and total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery in the middle one-third of its course.
  • (7) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
  • (8) Segmental function was diminished an average of 67.8% in "noses" and 46.6% in "bridges".
  • (9) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (10) Close van der Waals' contacts between the Cys22-Cys63 and Cys51-Cys75 disulfide bridges and the central hydrophobic core composed of the Trp25, Leu46, His48a and Trp62 side-chains are among the distinguishing features of the kringle 2 fold.
  • (11) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
  • (12) The cartilage of the concha is a valuable substitute of the bridge and the posterior wall of the external auditory conduct.
  • (13) It is shown from an analysis of the transient force responses observed after sudden changes in muscle length applied both at full and reduced overlap and during the rising phase of short tetani that these responses can be explained on the basis of varying numbers of cross bridges attached at the time of the length step.
  • (14) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.
  • (15) The dynamic properties of cross-bridge movement were investigated in glycerol-treated muscle fibers under various conditions by analyzing tension responses to two types of length change.
  • (16) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (17) It is suggested that a general manner of folding may be a common feature of the heterogeneous population of kappa-chains: one bridge which folds an invariable stretch of the chain, another bridge which folds a stretch that varies from protein to protein, and a bridge at the C-terminus which is the interchain link.
  • (18) 1-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3- nitrosourea hydrochloride (ACNU) causes chloroethylation of DNA strand followed by cross linking through an ethylene bridge.
  • (19) Optimal staining of antigen rich tissue, such as frozen sections, with the peroxidase antiperoxidase method required low antiserum concentrations apparently to minimize the binding of both antigen-binding fragments of the bridging antibody to the tissue bound antiserum.
  • (20) The results provided information on the energetics of actin-myosin-ligand states that occur in the portion of the cross-bridge cycle where MgATP binds to myosin.

Viaduct


Definition:

  • (n.) A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) C-particles were present in t-tubules, which were possible intracellular viaducts of infection or dissemination and perhaps were the loci of receptors of viral invasion of the cytoplasm and sites of egress.
  • (2) An obvious comparison, made by Gensler, is with the High Line in New York, the phenomenally successful park made out of an old railway viaduct, which like the River Park is long and thin.
  • (3) Six years before the opening of the Forth Railway Bridge, Gustave Eiffel had completed the lightweight Garabit Viaduct.
  • (4) The Birmingham and Fazeley viaduct, part of the proposed route for the HS2 high speed rail scheme.
  • (5) HS2 will pass over local fields on a viaduct, and skirt a new-ish housing development called Sandwath Drive, built around a snooker-table green and a childrens' play area.
  • (6) The narrative begins with the story of her sister's illness but also incorporates local history, namely the lives (and deaths) of the men who worked on the nearby Ribblehead viaduct in the 1870s; then there are the stories of fell runners, cavers and farmers.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Birmingham and Fazeley viaduct, part of the proposed route for the HS2 network.
  • (8) After all the romantic mythologising of On the Road 's Americana, it was genuinely comforting to watch a film mapping a journey from Redditch through to Shipton, Chesterfield and Ribblehead viaduct.
  • (9) An Italian coach crashes through a "safety" barrier and plunges off a viaduct, leaving at least 37 people dead .
  • (10) While poor Craig was foraging for nettles and chip scraps in the wilderness (the grass next to the railway viaducts), something strange was happening.
  • (11) There are two particular infrastructure investments in the county that could make a big contribution to capacity and speed challenges on the line as a whole – a single track section at Usan south of Montrose and the old South Esk viaduct at Montrose itself.
  • (12) HS2 Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘No sensible transport economist stands behind HS2.’ The Birmingham and Fazeley viaduct, part of the proposed route for the HS2 rail scheme.
  • (13) HS2 has said it is aiming to avoid an increase in flood risk by using water management techniques and viaducts.
  • (14) Among those apparently ignored was Alistair Lenczner, who led the design team on the world-famous Millau Viaduct in southern France.
  • (15) If Musk really found a way to build viaducts for $5 million per kilometer,” Levy wrote, “this is a huge thing for civil engineering in general and he should announce this in the most general context of urban transportation, rather than the niche of intercity transportation.” Similarly, the proposal briefly discusses thermal expansion: as the steel of the tubes heats in the hot California sun, the metal expands.
  • (16) Boarding at Fort William close to Ben Nevis, passengers cross the famous 21-arch Glenfinnan Viaduct .
  • (17) A mile out of Okehampton is the Meldon Viaduct, a gently curved, tottering Victorian lattice of wrought and cast iron 150ft above the West Okement river.
  • (18) Those viaducts, already curiously undercosted in Musk’s plan?
  • (19) Although we are more able to appreciate pure engineering structures today, it has been fascinating to witness the publicity surrounding the Millau Viaduct.
  • (20) Tunnels will hide a proportion of the line, but one historic area, the Missenden valley, will be dissected diagonally by miles of concrete viaducts and embankments.

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