ridge
pronunciation
How to pronounce ridge in British English:
UK [rɪdʒ]
How to pronounce ridge in American English:
US [rɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- a long narrow natural elevation or striation
- any long raised strip
- a long narrow range of hills
- any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane
- a beam laid along the ridge of a roof; provides attachment for upper end of rafters
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- Verb:
- extend in ridges
- plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip
- throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides
- spade into alternate ridges and troughs
- form into a ridge
Word Origin
- ridge
- ridge: [OE] Old English hrycg denoted ‘the back’, as its modern Germanic relatives – German rücken, Dutch rug, Swedish rygg, and Danish ryg – still do. But a gradual semantic focussing on the ‘backbone’ led by the 14th century to the emergence of ‘long narrow raised area’, today’s main meaning. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khrugjaz, which may have been related to Sanskrit krunc- ‘be crooked’ – in which case the notion underlying the word would be of a ‘bent back’.
- ridge (n.)
- Old English hrycg "back of a man or beast," probably reinforced by Old Norse hryggr "back, ridge," from Proto-Germanic *khrugjaz (cognates: Old Frisian hregg, Old Saxon hruggi, Dutch rug, Old High German hrukki, German Rücken "the back"), of uncertain origin. Also in Old English, "the top or crest of anything," especially when long and narrow. The connecting notion is of the "ridge" of the backbone. Spelling with -dg- is from late 15c. Ridge-runner "Southern Appalachian person" first recorded 1917.
Synonym
Example
- 1. How fast is the new supercomputer at oak ridge national laboratory ?
- 2. The idea inspired two other schools on the pine ridge reservation to publish their own papers .
- 3. Meanwhile another team at oak ridge national laboratory has announced plans to build a machine of comparable power .
- 4. In fact , he wrote his dissertation on the midocean ridge .
- 5. At oak ridge national laboratory , they 're using supercomputers to get a lot more power out of our nuclear facilities .