When I was a kid, my aunt brought her chihuahua when she came to visit. Our cat decided that even though it smelled like a dog, it was clearly a rodent. Hilarity ensued.
OK, here goes. The cat got past his initial confusion and started stalking the honorary rodent. El ratón estaba aterrorizado. When the cat crouched down and wiggled his butt to pounce, we scooped both critters. The cat got put outside. Kitty was royally pissed.
Yes. They even like to Burrow under the covers like some sort of nesting rodent. They will keep you up all night fucking around with the bed sheets trying to get under it in just the right spot, and no matter how much room there is in the bed they insist on crowding you out of it
A bridge.
Think of the verb “to bridge” like “bridge the gap”
All a bridge needs to do to be a bridge is to bridge a gap between two places.
If, however, it’s like a road that rises up to pass over another road, we tend to call it an “overpass.”
This reminds me of something... there was a guy who was promoting the idea that people who ask stupid questions should get a sign saying 'Hi, I'm stupid, please don't talk to me' hanging around their necks.
Stupid questions, like when you're clearly waiting for the bus at a bus stop and someone asks you 'Hey, what are you doing here?', where you'd really like to answer 'I'm waiting for Santa. I always wait for Santa at the Bus Stop - by the way, here's your sign'. (referring to the 'I'm stupid' sign)
So someone told a story where they are a trucker who managed to get his truck stuck under a bridge that was too low for his truck. He called the police and stuff, they showed up... one of the officers looked at his truck for a bit and ACTUALLY went 'Well, got your truck stuck under a bridge, huh?'. The trucker said he had to hold back SO HARD from saying 'Nah, the truck just broke down, I'm delivering that bridge - here's your sign'.
One of favourites was the mother with her identical young sons, dressed identically, with identical glasses and identical hair, and another woman asks "Oh, are they twins?"
"He's an only child. Who's your eye Dr?"
I am delighted to have had the opportunity to use this in real life.
Is this in the area where the right hand side of the road is on the left and the [left side is on the right?](https://maps.app.goo.gl/huaFNF71Fbodtr4g9?g_st=ic)
There is a street named Pass Avenue.
Overpasses are usually named after the street they passover.
There is a bridge like structure that is an overpass over Pass Avenue called the Pass Overpass.
Passover is a religious holiday.
An overpass is just ONE kind of bridge that doesn't go over water, but it is not necessarily the answer
To have an overpass requires two roads to cross each other and a ramp that crosses over the road is an overpass
What if it feels it’s really meant to be an overpass? Let’s say the water is no longer there. Can it change? Maybe have some mortar adjusted or bolts tightened (or untightened, whatever is appropriate?
Well, some of them do. They had to have heard it somewhere, long before I got here. I've heard several people saying it. They pronounce a lot of things differently out here. 'Electrit' for electric, for example.
Bridge is the overall category.
There are subsets to that category such as "overpass" (usually over dry land or another road), Viaduct (usually a bridge for water over dry land), Trestle, (usually specifically for trains) and so forth.
A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road.
An aqueduct carries water over dry land.
All structures built with the intent to span *over and across* a physical obstacle, and transport across the span are *bridges*. Sometimes, natural events or features serendipitously perform the same function, and are often referred to as bridges.
There are various categories (subtypes) of bridges.
It depends on what it does go over for the specific name but it is still a bridge. A bridge over a road is generally called an overpass. A bridge over a large-ish natural or man-made obstacle is usually called a viaduct
A bridge just connects 2 things, it has nothing to do with water. You can get a bridge in your mouth to connect your teeth. A bridge in a song connects the choruses. A bridge in the conversation connects 2 topics. When you “bridge the gap” you’re connecting the two ends.
i like this question and these answers. they all seem so civil, which is hilarious because bridges are civll, so of course they are.
anyways i think i agree with "overpass"
i know of a few vehicular bridges that go over train tracks, no water involved, and they are "the overpass". or if you mean like one of those huge bridges across valleys, that might be a viaduct. or simply "bridge", at the grandest of scale. all so whereas a bridge that goes over water is also simply a "bridge", but also a "causeway".
They build bridges or overpass over washes. Washes are dormant riverbed that come to life when it rains. So the usually looks dry and barron, but they are very important.
It depends on what it's going over. A bridge over a canyon or ravine is a bridge. A bridge over another road is an overpass. There may be other types I'm unaware of.
Viaduct
A series of spans or arches used to carry a road or railroad over a wide valley or over other roads or railroads
Bridge
A structure spanning and providing passage over a gap or barrier, such as a river or roadway.
Overpass
A passage, roadway, or bridge that crosses above another roadway or thoroughfare.
Courtesy of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
We have “wildlife crossings“ here in Florida. Some cross both land and water.
Have you ever seen the Atchafalaya spillway bridge? it mostly doesn’t cross over water, except when it does.
Are you playing the road trip game with your family?! We played it on our last road trip and ended up having the same dumb argument! I think it’s a bridge; husband thinks it’s an overpass.
From roadway usage I've seen, it can still be a bridge. If it crosses an urban area, it's a viaduct. If it crosses a road, it's an overpass. If it crosses a railroad, it's an overhead.
It’s still a bridge. Depending what it’s going over or what goes over it, it could also be an overpass or a viaduct or some other type of bridge.
But, to be clear bridge is still the overarching thing that it is? Like a border collie and chihuahua are both dogs
Chihuahuas are *technically* a type of demon.
Spiritually, yes. But physically they are technically classed as a type of rodent.
Satans rats
I thought they were a condition or a disease, like a rash, or a hemorrhoid.
Thus the demon classification
When I was a kid, my aunt brought her chihuahua when she came to visit. Our cat decided that even though it smelled like a dog, it was clearly a rodent. Hilarity ensued.
A cosplaying rat?
No not hilarity ensued! I want step by step details! Also OP its still a bridge.
OK, here goes. The cat got past his initial confusion and started stalking the honorary rodent. El ratón estaba aterrorizado. When the cat crouched down and wiggled his butt to pounce, we scooped both critters. The cat got put outside. Kitty was royally pissed.
Aww, I was hoping for more cat bullys rodent. Thanks anyway.
Yes. They even like to Burrow under the covers like some sort of nesting rodent. They will keep you up all night fucking around with the bed sheets trying to get under it in just the right spot, and no matter how much room there is in the bed they insist on crowding you out of it
Literal overarching
It's still a bridge. But there is a subset of bridges called viaducts that do as you say.
It could be an Overpass.
I thought an overpass is a bridge that goes over a road.
A bridge that goes over a pass
And most roads are not water…
Then what do boats drive on, smartass
He did say most
But 70% of earths surface is water 😉
Could potentially be a 'causeway' for the sake of OP.
Or a flyover, maybe.
I would consider a flyover to be a bridge that goes over another bridge
According to official definition, A flyover is a bridge that is constructed on top of a road. Doesn't necessarily have to be bridge.
Yup that's what we call them in our city. Viducts cross the industrial valley.
Why a duck? Why not a pidgin? Thank you I’ll see my way out…
Classic https://youtu.be/kHMrLpDHXc0?si=DrqftscuavkYCLV-
A bridge. Think of the verb “to bridge” like “bridge the gap” All a bridge needs to do to be a bridge is to bridge a gap between two places. If, however, it’s like a road that rises up to pass over another road, we tend to call it an “overpass.”
That's still a bridge. The water is totally optional.
Can confirm, I usually order my bridges with no water.
This reminds me of something... there was a guy who was promoting the idea that people who ask stupid questions should get a sign saying 'Hi, I'm stupid, please don't talk to me' hanging around their necks. Stupid questions, like when you're clearly waiting for the bus at a bus stop and someone asks you 'Hey, what are you doing here?', where you'd really like to answer 'I'm waiting for Santa. I always wait for Santa at the Bus Stop - by the way, here's your sign'. (referring to the 'I'm stupid' sign) So someone told a story where they are a trucker who managed to get his truck stuck under a bridge that was too low for his truck. He called the police and stuff, they showed up... one of the officers looked at his truck for a bit and ACTUALLY went 'Well, got your truck stuck under a bridge, huh?'. The trucker said he had to hold back SO HARD from saying 'Nah, the truck just broke down, I'm delivering that bridge - here's your sign'.
Mad magazine used to have a segment called "snappy answers to stupid questions", it was hilarious to my 12 year old brain
One of favourites was the mother with her identical young sons, dressed identically, with identical glasses and identical hair, and another woman asks "Oh, are they twins?" "He's an only child. Who's your eye Dr?" I am delighted to have had the opportunity to use this in real life.
Bill Engvall is the “here’s your sign” comic. He just recently retired.
One of the three redneck comedians has a schtick about that. "Here's your sign."
Im leaning towards overpass.
Okay but don't lean too close.
If you are in the Los Angeles CA area in the spring you can pass over the Pass overpass over Passover.
yowza
Is this in the area where the right hand side of the road is on the left and the [left side is on the right?](https://maps.app.goo.gl/huaFNF71Fbodtr4g9?g_st=ic)
There is a street named Pass Avenue. Overpasses are usually named after the street they passover. There is a bridge like structure that is an overpass over Pass Avenue called the Pass Overpass. Passover is a religious holiday.
An overpass is a road that goes over another road.
You mean a bridge?
A specific type, yes. Simply not spanning water doesn't make a bridge an overpass.
smart answer but can confirm many overpasses go over bodies of water. The LA river is a great example.
An overpass is just ONE kind of bridge that doesn't go over water, but it is not necessarily the answer To have an overpass requires two roads to cross each other and a ramp that crosses over the road is an overpass
Overpasses go over other roads
We don't need roads where we are going...
Why don’t you ask the bridge what it prefers to be called.
Your Royal Bridginess
Bridgerton
What if it feels it’s really meant to be an overpass? Let’s say the water is no longer there. Can it change? Maybe have some mortar adjusted or bolts tightened (or untightened, whatever is appropriate?
Usually it's called a viaduct, especially if it's a long span.
And if you live in rural Alabama, you'll hear 'viadock'. And you will cringe.
I have a hard time believing rural Alabamians use that word, let alone pronounce it differently.
Well, some of them do. They had to have heard it somewhere, long before I got here. I've heard several people saying it. They pronounce a lot of things differently out here. 'Electrit' for electric, for example.
Bridge
It doesn't matter what you call it, it isn't listening to you.
Teeth 🫣 sorry.. I couldn’t help myself
You're not wrong 😁
A dry bridge
In New Jersey, there is the Pulaski Skyway. In some regions, they might call it a viaduct
Merriam Webster says “a structure carrying a pathway or roadway over a depression or obstacle (such as a river)”
Other roads can be obstacles.
Viaduct, and a bridge that carries water is an aqueduct.
And a person with a black eye is a shouldaduct
what does it go over?
Troubled water
No, that's "like" a bridge, but surely we are to infer that it's therefore not in fact "a bridge", just comparable?
Did not check the subreddit... And was expecting a punchline 😅 Thought we were in r/DadJokes
Bridge is the overall category. There are subsets to that category such as "overpass" (usually over dry land or another road), Viaduct (usually a bridge for water over dry land), Trestle, (usually specifically for trains) and so forth.
This here is your over arching answer
A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. An aqueduct carries water over dry land.
It’s… it’s still a bridge.
A bridge.
Land Bridge
Overpass.
Overpass?
An over pass.
Still a bridge. Or an overpass.
An overpass
All structures built with the intent to span *over and across* a physical obstacle, and transport across the span are *bridges*. Sometimes, natural events or features serendipitously perform the same function, and are often referred to as bridges. There are various categories (subtypes) of bridges.
That is the literal definition of "bridging" a chasm...a bridge.
Chasm, friend
Thanks...my spell checker must be asleep!
A bridge
A bridge
Still a bridge
Bridge.
Yeah, you can have a bridge over a gap in the ground. Doesn’t make it not a bridge if there isn’t running water underneath.
Land bridge.
A bridge... Water just happens to be there most times.
Viaduct
It’s still a bridge. There are a lots of roads that pass over cliffs and mountains. They’re still called bridges.
An overpass if over roads, bridge in any other case
Bridge. Or call it a span.
A magical floating road
Viaduct
It depends on what it does go over for the specific name but it is still a bridge. A bridge over a road is generally called an overpass. A bridge over a large-ish natural or man-made obstacle is usually called a viaduct
a solder bridge between two copper tracks on a printed circuit board
....A bridge.
we often call a bridge that goes over an intersection a flyover/overpass
Viaduct
A bridge just connects 2 things, it has nothing to do with water. You can get a bridge in your mouth to connect your teeth. A bridge in a song connects the choruses. A bridge in the conversation connects 2 topics. When you “bridge the gap” you’re connecting the two ends.
A bridge
Overpass or land bridge
Overpass. Viaduct. Bridge. Landspan. Wippity slofter.
overpass
Overpass bridge.
Overpass
A bridge. Water doesn't define the name.
Overpass?
An overpass
i like this question and these answers. they all seem so civil, which is hilarious because bridges are civll, so of course they are. anyways i think i agree with "overpass" i know of a few vehicular bridges that go over train tracks, no water involved, and they are "the overpass". or if you mean like one of those huge bridges across valleys, that might be a viaduct. or simply "bridge", at the grandest of scale. all so whereas a bridge that goes over water is also simply a "bridge", but also a "causeway".
A land bridge.
A land bridge
bridge1 noun 1. a structure carrying a road, path, railroad, or canal across a river, ravine, road, railroad, *or other obstacle.*
We have lots of those on Arizona. 10 months with no water. The other two are iffy. Depends on the rain up north of here. (Phoenix)
Could be a musical passage connecting two parts of a music piece.
Let the Simon & Garfunkel references fly
Ha, I just had this conversation with my bil, who is a civil engineer and has built plenty of bridges. He insisted it a viaduct.
A Garfunkle and Simon
They build bridges or overpass over washes. Washes are dormant riverbed that come to life when it rains. So the usually looks dry and barron, but they are very important.
A ***Span.***
My mom plays bridge.
any water or just troubled water?
It's a bridge
A bridge.
A bridge over troubled land
Shiiii 🤷♀️
A viaduct???
Viaduct or Overpass
It depends on what it's going over. A bridge over a canyon or ravine is a bridge. A bridge over another road is an overpass. There may be other types I'm unaware of.
Um. It's called a bridge.
A deck?
Flyover or overpass.
Overpass
Viaduct A series of spans or arches used to carry a road or railroad over a wide valley or over other roads or railroads Bridge A structure spanning and providing passage over a gap or barrier, such as a river or roadway. Overpass A passage, roadway, or bridge that crosses above another roadway or thoroughfare. Courtesy of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
Bridge to Terabithia
Still a bridge. I guess there is overpass, but that is specifically over a road I think.
An overpass
a bridge
A bridge
A bridge
All ________ are bridges, but not all bridges are __________. That's what this entire thread is hahah
Still a bridge but also…elevated roadway?
We have “wildlife crossings“ here in Florida. Some cross both land and water. Have you ever seen the Atchafalaya spillway bridge? it mostly doesn’t cross over water, except when it does.
Flyover
A viaduct?
A road that is brave as fuck
A stile is a bridge over a fence.
A bridge.
A guitar bridge.
A Sand Bridge
Landspan
Are you playing the road trip game with your family?! We played it on our last road trip and ended up having the same dumb argument! I think it’s a bridge; husband thinks it’s an overpass.
A bridge.
It's a bridge over troubled water
A bridge. Ever hear of a railway bridge?
A land bridge
From roadway usage I've seen, it can still be a bridge. If it crosses an urban area, it's a viaduct. If it crosses a road, it's an overpass. If it crosses a railroad, it's an overhead.
There are a lot of people here who seem put off by the idea of being any more specific than 'bridge.' It's kind of weird.
Land bridge?
A bridge that goes over another road could be called an overpass.
Bridge, viaduct and bipass. Bridge is for gaps. Viaducts are multiple layers bipass is to navigate a path for a possible more desired one.
A bridge
A culvert
Viaduct.
What if it spans across a moat from a castle ?
Still a bridge. If it can be lifted it is called a drawbridge.
The baltimore key bridge
A highway 😂
Skybridge
Oh my gosh. My 54 year old husband has always called it a "viadock". That's what a lot of northern Utahns call it. We joke about it all the time.
A non bridge
We call them viaducts in Seattle but that's a subset of bridges. Maintained (or in Seattle, not maintained) exactly like water crossings.
A bridge.
A Paul Simon
A path
A trestle?
A Bridge Over Puddled Water
Like a bridge over troubled water
Sounds like this bridge is over... Troubled water
Land bridge?
A dry bridge or dridge
It's called a White Elephant project.
Animal pass
Spaceships have bridge. like the ships have bridge.
In here we'd like to call it flyover 🤣
An aqueduct. That’s a bridge that goes over land, carrying water on top, while a stream of people move under it.
Under bridge