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bridgehead
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies; "an attempt to secure a bridgehead behind enemy lines"; "the only foothold left for British troops in Europe was Gibraltar" [syn: foothold ] a defensive ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An area around the end of a bridge. 2 (context military English) A fortification around the end of a bridge. 3 (context military English) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All we have to do is get in and establish a bridgehead , so to speak. ▪ There were thousands more slaves now, working to finish the bridgehead .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bridgehead \Bridge"head`\, n. A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a t[^e]te-de-pont.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bridgehead is a military fortification that protects the end of a bridge that is closest to the enemy. Bridgehead may also refer to: Bridgehead Coffee , a Canadian coffeehouse business "Bridgehead" atoms in a bicyclic molecule or polycyclic compound , ...
Usage examples of bridgehead.
Bridging and amphib tank operations last night at Mirpur Khas, here, and Khewari, up here, appear to have been completely successful in establishing bridgeheads across the river and canal barriers along the edge of the desert.
French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken!
At Szeged the Russians have very soon gained a strong bridgehead which we are unable to dent, and from which they make a swift thrust N.
The new Russian assault on the Theiss is considerably delayed and weakened by this interruption of their lines of communication, at least in this northern sector, but they are able to keep expanding the big bridgehead at Szeged and joining it up with a smaller one further north.
He could try other more energetic transmissions, bursts of positrons, muons, gamma rays, or antiprotons that might attract attention to the Bridgehead.
It had been his first bridgehead in space, and was still the key to the planets.
Reports of English dogcapture positions near Elbe bridgehead in Lauenburg and of American dogcapture in Fichtel Mountains unconfirmed.
When the way was open, it was to come through first, to survey the new space and secure a bridgehead for their invasion.
Those in favor of dismantling the first bridgehead were called, by someone, Seekers of the Holy Grail, and the name of Grail stuck to that area of opencast mining.
Once the first nerve connections had established their bridgeheads, message traffic flooded the available channels.
Enemy armored spearheads reach the Oder and establish a bridgehead near Steinau.
Two morsels of drifting marine food, he thought, about to be sucked into the enormous waiting funnel of the bridgehead, digested into the heart of Cerberus.
She had named the vast conic object the bridgehead, because that was its function.
Shock waves would rush up the length of the bridgehead as it hit the surface, but piezoelectric crystal boundaries would gradually bleed energy from the shock waves, energy which could be redirected into weapons systems.
The impact speed would be relatively slow, in any case -- less than a kilometre a second, since the bridgehead would decelerate massively just before puncturing the crust.