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ridge

(rĭj)

1. A long narrow upper section or crest: the ridge of a wave.

a. A long, narrow, elevated section of the earth's surface, such as a chain of hills or mountains or the divide between adjacent valleys.

b. A long mountain range on the ocean floor.

3. A narrow, elongated zone of relatively high atmospheric pressure. Also called wedge.

4. A long, narrow, or crested part of the body: the ridge of the nose.

5. The horizontal line formed by the juncture of two sloping planes, especially the line formed by the surfaces at the top of a roof.

6. A narrow, raised strip, as in cloth or on plowed ground.

v. ridged, ridg·ing, ridg·es

v.tr.

To mark with, form into, or provide with a ridge or ridges.

v.intr.

To form a ridge or ridges.

[Middle English rigge, from Old English hrycg; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

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ridge

(rɪdʒ)

1. (Physical Geography) a long narrow raised land formation with sloping sides esp one formed by the meeting of two faces of a mountain or of a mountain buttress or spur

2. any long narrow raised strip or elevation, as on a fabric or in ploughed land

3. (Anatomy) anatomy any elongated raised margin or border on a bone, tooth, tissue membrane, etc

4. (Architecture)

a. the top of a roof at the junction of two sloping sides

b. (as modifier): a ridge tile.

5. (Zoology) the back or backbone of an animal, esp a whale

6. (Physical Geography) meteorol an elongated area of high pressure, esp an extension of an anticyclone. Compare trough⁴

to form into a ridge or ridges

[Old English hrycg; related to Old High German hrucki, Old Norse hryggr]

ˈridgeˌlike adj

ˈridgy adj

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ridge

(rɪdʒ)

n., v. ridged, ridg•ing. n.

1. a long, narrow elevation of land, as a chain of hills.

2. the long and narrow upper edge, angle, or crest of something, as a hill.

3. the back of an animal.

4. any raised, narrow strip, as on cloth.

5. the horizontal line in which the tops of the rafters of a roof meet.

6. (on a weather chart) a narrow, elongated area of high pressure.

v.t.

7. to provide with or form into ridges.

8. to mark with or as if with ridges.

v.i.

9. to form ridges.

[before 900; Middle English rigge (n.), Old English hrycg spine]

ridge

Past participle: ridged
Gerund: ridging

Imperative
ridge
ridge

Present
I ridge
you ridge
he/she/it ridges
we ridge
you ridge
they ridge

Preterite
I ridged
you ridged
he/she/it ridged
we ridged
you ridged
they ridged

Present Continuous
I am ridging
you are ridging
he/she/it is ridging
we are ridging
you are ridging
they are ridging

Present Perfect
I have ridged
you have ridged
he/she/it has ridged
we have ridged
you have ridged
they have ridged

Past Continuous
I was ridging
you were ridging
he/she/it was ridging
we were ridging
you were ridging
they were ridging

Past Perfect
I had ridged
you had ridged
he/she/it had ridged
we had ridged
you had ridged
they had ridged

Future
I will ridge
you will ridge
he/she/it will ridge
we will ridge
you will ridge
they will ridge

Future Perfect
I will have ridged
you will have ridged
he/she/it will have ridged
we will have ridged
you will have ridged
they will have ridged

Future Continuous
I will be ridging
you will be ridging
he/she/it will be ridging
we will be ridging
you will be ridging
they will be ridging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been ridging
you have been ridging
he/she/it has been ridging
we have been ridging
you have been ridging
they have been ridging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been ridging
you will have been ridging
he/she/it will have been ridging
we will have been ridging
you will have been ridging
they will have been ridging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been ridging
you had been ridging
he/she/it had been ridging
we had been ridging
you had been ridging
they had been ridging

Conditional
I would ridge
you would ridge
he/she/it would ridge
we would ridge
you would ridge
they would ridge

Past Conditional
I would have ridged
you would have ridged
he/she/it would have ridged
we would have ridged
you would have ridged
they would have ridged

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ridge

An area of high pressure between two depressions.

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Noun	1.	ridge - a long narrow natural elevation or striation bank - a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth" bar - a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" dune, sand dune - a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans esker - (geology) a long winding ridge of post glacial gravel and other sediment; deposited by meltwater from glaciers or ice sheets ledge, shelf - a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water natural elevation, elevation - a raised or elevated geological formation reef - a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water ripple mark - one of a series of small ridges produced in sand by water currents or by wind
	2.	ridge - any long raised strip raphe, rhaphe - a ridge that forms a seam between two parts convex shape, convexity - a shape that curves or bulges outward corrugation - a ridge on a corrugated surface
	3.	ridge - a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean geological formation, formation - (geology) the geological features of the earth
	4.	ridge - a long narrow range of hills ridgeline arete - a sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains geological formation, formation - (geology) the geological features of the earth hogback, horseback - a narrow ridge of hills
	5.	ridge - any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane appendage, outgrowth, process - a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" superciliary arch, superciliary ridge, supraorbital ridge, supraorbital torus - a ridge on the frontal bone above the eye socket
	6.	ridge - 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 ridgepole, rooftree beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof, saddleback - a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
Verb	1.	ridge - extend in ridges; "The land ridges towards the South" cover, extend, continue - span an interval of distance, space or time; "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres"; "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles"
	2.	ridge - plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip farming, husbandry, agriculture - the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock plow, plough, turn - to break and turn over earth especially with a plow; "Farmer Jones plowed his east field last week"; "turn the earth in the Spring"
	3.	ridge - throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides; "He ridged his corn" throw - propel through the air; "throw a frisbee"
	4.	ridge - spade into alternate ridges and troughs; "ridge the soil"
	5.	ridge - form into a ridge shape, form - give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character"

ridge

noun crest, bank, rise, fell, scar, escarpment In some places the ridge is quite a gentle feature.

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Translations

أرْض مُرْتَفِعَهذُرْوَهسِلْسِلَة تِلال

hřebenhranahřbet

åshøjdedrag

Grat Joch Kamm Rücken Erhöhung

caballete cadena cresta

harjanne

crête faîte arête chaîne

tetõgerinc

hæîarhryggurhryggurkambur, ás, hryggur

costonecresta

kalvų virtinėkraigasšelmuo

grēdajoslakalnu grēdakoremugura

høydedrag møne opphøyd rand rygg takrygg

горная цепь горный хребет гребень океанический хребет

hrana

rygg

çatı sırtıdağ/tepe sırtıdam tepesisırttepe dizisi

大气层的高压脊屋脊山脉山脊脊状

ridge

[rɪdʒ]

A. N [of hills, mountains] → cadena f; [of nose] → puente m, caballete m; [of roof] → caballete m (Agr) → caballón m; (= crest of hill) → cumbre f, cresta f (Met) ridge of high/low pressure → línea f de presión alta/baja

B. CPD ridge pole N (on tent) → caballete m, cumbrera f
ridge tent N → tienda f canadiense
ridge tile N → teja f de caballete

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ridge

[ˈrɪdʒ] n

[hill] → faîte m; [mountain] → arête f

[roof] → arête f

(on object, surface) → strie f

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ridge

(= raised strip, on fabric, cardboard etc) → Rippe f; (on corrugated iron) → Welle f; (on sand) → Rippelmarke f; (on ploughed land) → Grat m; (in sea: = reef) → Riff nt; a ridge of hills → eine Hügelkette; a ridge of mountains → ein Höhenzug m; a ridge of high pressure (Met) → ein Hochdruckkeil m

(of hills, mountains) → Rücken m, → Kamm m; (pointed, steep) → Grat m; (of roof) → First m; (of nose) → Rücken m

vt rocks, land, sand → zerfurchen

ridge

ridgepole

n (of tent) → Firststange f

ridge tent

n → Firstzelt nt

ridge tile

n → Firstziegel m

ridgeway

n (Brit) → Gratweg m

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ridge

[rɪdʒ] n (of mountain, hill) → cresta; (of chain of mountains) → crinale m; (of roof) → colmo; (in ploughed field) → porca (Met) ridge of high pressure → fascia di alta pressione

ridge

(ridʒ) noun

1. a long narrow piece of ground etc raised above the level of the ground etc on either side of it.

2. a long narrow row of hills.

3. anything like a ridge in shape. A ridge of high pressure is a long narrow area of high pressure as shown on a weather map.

4. the top edge of something where two sloping surfaces meet, eg on a roof.

ridge

n. borde, reborde, elevación prolongada.

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Rising from the midst of vast plains and prairies, traversing several degrees of latitude, dividing the waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific, and seeming to bind with diverging ridges the level regions on its flanks, it has been figuratively termed the backbone of the northern continent.

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In the central blinds of bone, as they stand in their natural order, there are certain curious marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature's age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings.

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After ten minutes' rapid progress we gained an open space from which we could just descry the ridge we intended to mount looming dimly through the mists of the tropical shower, and distant from us, as we estimated, something more than a mile.

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It was of lesser height than that on which the Castle was situated; but it was so placed that it commanded the various hills that crowned the ridge. All along the ridge the rock cropped out, bare and bleak, but broken in rough natural castellation.

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Then, when it was about midnight, Zarathustra went his way over the ridge of the isle, that he might arrive early in the morning at the other coast; because there he meant to embark.

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These we decided to attempt to reach in the hope that from some ridge we might discern the missing waterway.

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(21st), and continued to follow the course of the river, which had become very small, till we arrived at the foot of the ridge, that separates the waters flowing into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

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About four miles behind, they had remarked a small ridge of mountains approaching closely to the river.

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Presently another pair of eyes were looking down upon the ape-man, and then another and another, until a full score of hideously trapped, savage warriors were lying upon their bellies along the crest of the ridge watching the white-skinned stranger.

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I then put into the hive, instead of a thick, square piece of wax, a thin and narrow, knife-edged ridge, coloured with vermilion.

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2.--Looking at the stars last night as they rose above the crest of the ridge east of the house, I observed them successively disappear--from left to right.

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I travelled in the care of a mountain boy, Jake Marpole, one of the `hands' on my father's old farm under the Blue Ridge, who was now going West to work for my grandfather.