Words that rhyme with teethridge

v 1: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened" [syn: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, cut, contract, reduce] [ant: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate] 2: lessen, diminish, or curtail; "the new law might abridge our freedom of expression"

n 1: a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn: bridge, span] 2: a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected [syn: bridge, bridge circuit] 3: something resembling a bridge in form or function; "his letters provided a bridge across the centuries" 4: the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose; "her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose" 5: any of various card games based on whist for four players 6: a wooden support that holds the strings up 7: a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth [syn: bridge, bridgework] 8: the link between two lenses; rests on the nose [syn: bridge, nosepiece] 9: an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands [syn: bridge, bridge deck] v 1: connect or reduce the distance between [syn: bridge, bridge over] 2: make a bridge across; "bridge a river" 3: cross over on a bridge

n 1: ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun 2: a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required [syn: magazine, cartridge] 3: a module designed to be inserted into a larger piece of equipment; "he loaded a cartridge of fresh tape into the tape deck" 4: an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable [syn: cartridge, pickup]

n 1: a bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it [syn: drawbridge, lift bridge]

n 1: a bridge designed for pedestrians [syn: footbridge, overcrossing, pedestrian bridge]

n 1: a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor [syn: electric refrigerator, fridge]

n 1: minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water

n 1: the peers of a kingdom considered as a group [syn: peerage, baronage]

n 1: soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick

n 1: a long narrow natural elevation or striation 2: any long raised strip 3: a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean 4: a long narrow range of hills [syn: ridge, ridgeline] 5: any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane 6: a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters [syn: ridge, ridgepole, rooftree] v 1: extend in ridges; "The land ridges towards the South" 2: plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip 3: throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides; "He ridged his corn" 4: spade into alternate ridges and troughs; "ridge the soil" 5: form into a ridge

n 1: the cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship 2: the act of steering a ship [syn: steering, steerage]

n 1: the act of storing something 2: a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store] 3: the commercial enterprise of storing goods and materials 4: (computer science) the process of storing information in a computer memory or on a magnetic tape or disk 5: an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached" [syn: memory, computer memory, storage, computer storage, store, memory board] 6: depositing in a warehouse; "they decided to reposition their furniture in a recommended repository in Brooklyn"; "my car is in storage"; "publishers reduced print runs to cut down the cost of warehousing" [syn: repositing, reposition, storage, warehousing]

n 1: a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920" [syn: right to vote, vote, suffrage]

n 1: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question" [syn: umbrage, offense, offence]

n 1: platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc

n 1: a university in England [syn: Cambridge University, Cambridge] 2: a city in Massachusetts just to the north of Boston; site of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3: a city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University

n 1: general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)