ridge
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- rig (dialectal)
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hrycg (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreuk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
Wikipedia ridge (plural ridges)
- (anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
- Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- Highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
- A chain of mountains.
- A chain of hills.
- A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- (meteorology) A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
line of intersection
highest point on a roof
chain of mountains
chain of hills
elevation on ocean bottom
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Verb [edit]
ridge (third-person singular simple present ridges, present participle ridging, simple past and past participle ridged)
- (transitive) To form into a ridge
- (intransitive) To extend in ridges
