suspension bridge

English

Brooklyn Bridge in New York City

A pedestrian suspension bridge in Vancouver, Canada

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Noun

suspension bridge (plural suspension bridges)

2. A bridge whose deck or roadway is suspended from wire ropes (cables) or (for some pedestrian bridges) fibrous rope.

   Hypernyms: bridge < infrastructure

   Hyponym: swing bridge (shaky-bridge sense)

   Coordinate terms: cable-stayed bridge, catenary bridge, truss bridge, trestle bridge, lattice bridge; (movable) movable bridge, swing bridge (movable-bridge sense)

Usage notes

• In a suspension bridge, the deck is attached by vertical suspenders to thick suspension cables that from a catenary shape. By contrast, in a cable-stayed bridge, straight cables attach the deck directly to the pillars.

Translations

bridge where the deck or roadway is suspended from cables

• Arabic: جِسْر مُعَلَّق m (jisr muʕallaq)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܓܸܫܪܵܐ ܬܸܠܝܵܐ m (gišrā tilyā)

• Armenian: կախովի կամուրջ (kaxovi kamurǰ)
• Azerbaijani: asma körpü
• Bulgarian: висящ мост m (visjašt most)
• Catalan: pont penjant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 懸索橋 / 悬索桥 (zh) (xuánsuǒqiáo), 吊橋 / 吊桥 (zh) (diàoqiáo)

• Czech: visutý most m
• Danish: hængebro (da)
• Dutch: hangbrug (nl) f
• Estonian: rippsild
• Finnish: riippusilta (fi)
• French: pont suspendu (fr) m
• German: Hängebrücke (de) f
• Greek: κρεμαστή γέφυρα f (kremastí géfyra)
• Hebrew: גֶּשֶׁר תָּלוּי m (gésher talúi)
• Hindi: झूला पुल (jhūlā pul)
• Hungarian: függőhíd (hu)
• Indonesian: jembatan gantung (id)
• Irish: droichead crochta m
• Italian: ponte sospeso (it) m
• Japanese: 吊橋 (ja) (つりばし, tsuribashi), 吊り橋 (ja) (つりばし, tsuribashi)
• Kazakh: аспалы көпір (aspalı köpir)
• Korean: 현수교(懸垂橋) (hyeonsugyo)
• Latvian: iekārtais tilts m
• Lithuanian: kabantis tiltas m
• Malay: jambatan gantung
• Māori: piriti whakatārewa
• Mongolian: дүүжин гүүр (düüžin güür)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hengebro m or f, hengebru m or f

  Nynorsk: hengebru f, hengjebru f

• Plautdietsch: Henjbrigj f
• Polish: most wiszący (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponte pênsil f
• Romanian: pod suspendat (ro)
• Russian: вися́чий мост (ru) m (visjáčij most)
• Slovak: visutý most m
• Spanish: puente colgante m
• Sundanese: ᮞᮞᮊ᮪ ᮌᮔ᮪ᮒᮥᮀ (sasak gantung)
• Swedish: hängbro (sv)
• Thai: สะพานแขวน
• Tibetan: འཕྱངས་ཟམ ('phyangs zam)
• Turkish: asma köprü (tr)
• Vietnamese: cầu dây võng, cầu treo dây võng
• Welsh: pont grog f

Further reading

• suspension bridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• simple suspension bridge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia