Ridge

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  • noun. A long narrow upper section or crest.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A long, narrow, elevated section of the earth's surface, such as a chain of hills or mountains or the divide between adjacent valleys.
  • noun. A long mountain range on the ocean floor.
  • noun. A narrow, elongated zone of relatively high atmospheric pressure.
  • noun. A long, narrow, or crested part of the body.
  • noun. The horizontal line formed by the juncture of two sloping planes, especially the line formed by the surfaces at the top of a roof.
  • noun. A narrow, raised strip, as in cloth or on plowed ground.
  • intransitive verb. To mark with, form into, or provide with a ridge or ridges.
  • intransitive verb. To form a ridge or ridges.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To cover or mark with ridges; rib.
  • To rise or stretch in ridges.
  • noun. The back of any animal; especially, the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
  • noun. Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip; a long and narrow pile sloping at the sides; specifically, a long elevation of land, or the summit of such an elevation; an extended hill or mountain.
  • noun. In agriculture, a strip of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows; a bed of ground formed by furrow-slices running the whole length of the field, varying in breadth according to circumstances, and divided from another by gutters or open furrows, parallel to each other, which last serve as guides to the hand and eye of the sower, to the reapers, and also for the application of manures in a regular manner. In wet soils they also serve as drains for carrying off the surface-water. In Wales, formerly, a measure of land, 20 ΒΌ feet.
  • noun. The highest part of the roof of a building; specifically, the meeting of the upper ends of the rafters.
  • noun. In fortification, the highest portion of the glacis, proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
  • noun. In anatomy and zoology, a prominent border; an elevated line, or crest; a lineal protuberance: said especially of rough elevations on bones for muscular or ligamentous attachments: as, the superciliary, occipital, mylohyoid, condylar, etc., ridges.
  • noun. A succession of small processes along the small abaft the hump of a sperm-whale, or the top of the back just forward of the small. The ridge is thickest just around the hump. See scrag-whale.
  • noun. One of the several linear elevations of the lining membrane of the roof of a horse's mouth, more commonly called bars. Similar ridges occur on the hard palate of most mammals.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
  • transitive verb. To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
  • transitive verb. To wrinkle.
  • noun. The back, or top of the back; a crest.
  • noun. A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
  • noun. A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
  • noun. The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
  • noun. The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
  • noun. Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
  • noun. The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
  • noun. Highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
  • noun. A chain of mountains.
  • noun. A chain of hills.
  • noun. A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
  • noun. A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.
  • verb. To form into a ridge
  • verb. To extend in ridges
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane
  • verb. throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides
  • verb. extend in ridges
  • verb. plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip
  • verb. spade into alternate ridges and troughs
  • noun. a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean
  • noun. a long narrow range of hills
  • noun. a long narrow natural elevation or striation
  • noun. any long raised strip
  • noun. 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
  • verb. form into a ridge
  • Word Usage
    "Now, we're going to see this pattern shift a little bit over the next couple of days and we get what we call a ridge pattern."
    cross-reference
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beam  continue  cover  extend  form  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abridge  bridge  fridge  midge  miscavige  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    again  bluff  boulder  cloud  crag  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acme  apex  apogee  arete  back  
    verb-form
    ridged  ridges  ridging