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Definition of Ridge

1. Verb. Extend in ridges. "The land ridges towards the South"

2. Noun. A long narrow natural elevation or striation.

3. Verb. Plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip.

4. Noun. Any long raised strip.

5. Verb. Throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides. "He ridged his corn"

6. Noun. A long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean.

7. Verb. Spade into alternate ridges and troughs. "Ridge the soil"

8. Noun. A long narrow range of hills.

9. Verb. Form into a ridge.

10. Noun. Any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane.

11. 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.

Definition of Ridge

1. n. The back, or top of the back; a crest.

2. v. t. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.

Definition of Ridge

1. Proper noun. (surname from=Middle English dot=) after a natural landscape feature. ¹

2. Proper noun. (surnames male given name) transferred from the surname. ¹

3. Noun. (context: anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. ¹

4. Noun. Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. ¹

5. Noun. The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. ¹

6. Noun. Highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area. ¹

7. Noun. A chain of mountains. ¹

8. Noun. A chain of hills. ¹

9. Noun. A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom. ¹

10. Noun. (meteorology) A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains. ¹

11. Verb. (transitive) To form into a ridge ¹

12. Verb. (intransitive) To extend in ridges ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ridge

1. to form into ridges (long, narrow elevations) [v RIDGED, RIDGING, RIDGES]

Medical Definition of Ridge

1. 1. A (usually rough) linear elevation. See: crest. 2. In dentistry, any linear elevation on the surface of a tooth. 3. The remainder of the alveolar process and its soft tissue covering after the teeth are removed. Origin: A. S. Hyrcg, back, spine (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ridge

rider's muscles rider plate ridered riderless riders ridership riderships rides rideshare ridesharer

ridesharers rideshares ridesharing ridest rideth ridge (current term) ridge-runner ridge course ridge relation ridge resorption

ridge rope ridge tile ridge vent ridge vents ridgeback ridgebacks ridgebone ridgebones ridged

Literary usage of Ridge

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"10.692, to join Lawrence Thompson and James M'Millan's entry of 1000 acres that is laid on the dividing ridge between Spencer's creek and Kingston's fork of ..."

2. Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses (1988)
"The test is, // the ridges on both sides of the ending ridge follow its direction or ... An upthrust, then, must not only be an ending ridge rising at a ..."

3. Publications by Parish Register Society, London, London Parish Register Society, Florida State Historical Society, Deland, Deland Florida State Historical Society, Reparations Commission, North Carolina Historical Commission, Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Yorkshire (1901)
"Tomb enclosed in iron railings, with the ridge crest on each side. ... In Memory of John Christopher ridge who died May 2oth AD 1820 aged 9 months. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"It is manifest that the ridge with its inland-facing escarpment and the denuded inner lowland are typical features of a certain stage in the denudation of a ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"CROWLEY'S ridge, rising above the alluvial lowland of the Mississippi in ... has suggested that the lowland to the west of the ridge was excavated as an ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Sherman was to cross the Tennessee opposite the north end of Missionary ridge, which was unoccupied, and carry it to the railroad tunnel about half a mile ..."

7. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"As the result of this condition, an interesting contrast is noticeable between the character of the rocks on the east and west tides of such a ridge. ..."

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