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Definition: Ridge |
RidgeNoun1. A long narrow natural elevation or striation. 2. Any long raised strip. 3. A long narrow range of hills. 4. Any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane. 5. A beam laid along the ridge of a roof; provides attachment for upper end of rafters. Verb1. Extend in ridges: "The land ridges towards the South". 2. Plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip. 3. Through soil toward (a crop row) from both sides: "He ridged his corn". 4. Spade into alternate ridges and troughs, of soil. 5. Form into a ridge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ridge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Food & Agriculture | Natural or artificial hillock. Artificial banks are sometimes constructed with the slope oriented so as to secure maximum sunlight for the vines planted thereon. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Strip of land between vines in the row which is not cultivated by ordinary mechanical implements. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A raised line or strip(as of ground thrown up by a plow between furrows). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | Region of the atmosphere in which the pressure is high relative to the surrounding region at the same level ; term synonymous with "ridge", though usually applied to a fast-moving ridge between two depressions or troughs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Hydrologic | A line or wall of broken ice forced up by pressure. May be fresh or weathered. (references) |
Mining | A. A long, narrow elevation of the Earth's surface, generally sharp crested with steep sides, either independently or as part of a larger mountain or hill. b. A long elevation of the deep-sea floor having steeper sides and lessregular topography than a rise. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | RIDGE. A guinea. Ridge cully; a goldsmith. CANT. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Weather | An elongated area of relatively high atmospheric pressure; the opposite of trough. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ridge is a town located in Suffolk County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 13,380.Geography
Ridge is located at 40°54'26" North, 72°52'58" West (40.907128, -72.882909)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.1 km² (13.6 mi²). 34.9 km² (13.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.66% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 13,380 people, 5,545 households, and 3,476 families residing in the town. The population density is 383.5/km² (993.6/mi²). There are 5,922 housing units at an average density of 169.7/km² (439.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 92.99% White, 3.45% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.90% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.75% from other races, and 1.59% from two or more races. 3.51% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 5,545 households out of which 27.4% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.9% are married couples living together, 7.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 37.3% are non-families. 34.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 28.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.38 and the average family size is 3.09. In the town the population is spread out with 23.2% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 24.5% from 25 to 44, 17.8% from 45 to 64, and 29.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 43 years. For every 100 females there are 82.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 76.9 males. The median income for a household in the town is $44,140, and the median income for a family is $60,039. Males have a median income of $49,539 versus $31,384 for females. The per capita income for the town is $23,387. 6.5% of the population and 4.4% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 7.5% are under the age of 18 and 6.0% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ridge, New York."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
RIDGE | English | Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiment | Environment |
RIDGE | Italian | Esperimento Globale Interdisciplinare sulla Dorsale | Environment |
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Synonyms: RidgeSynonyms: ridgepole (n), rooftree (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag. |
Height | Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height. |
Narrowness Thinness | Middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well, he'd better have those units in the South Ridge repaired by midday, or there'll be hell to pay. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) Pickett's charge was up Cemetary Ridge, not Little Round Top. (The Living Daylights; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) Let's kill every first born male child in Rock Ridge. (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) Maybe I could turn this thing into my advantage if I could find a sheriff who so offends the citizens of Rock Ridge that his very appearance would drive them out of town (Blazing Saddles; writing credit: Andrew Bergman; Mel Brooks) | |
Lyrics | And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) And then she said I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry) Blue Ridge Mountains ("Take Me Home Country Roads"; performing artist: John Denver) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sniper's Ridge (1961) Gunsight Ridge (1957) The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955) Outlaws of Pine Ridge (1942) Banana Ridge (1941) | |
Song Titles | Carry On Wayward Son (performing artist: The Oak Ridge Boys) Elvira (performing artist: The Oak Ridge Boys) | |
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 | Aerial view of CDC Field Station, Ridge Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio. Credit: CDC. |  | Note the ocular seta in front of the eye, a V-shaped ridge on the mesopleuron, and a spermatheca which has a round unpigmented basal portion. Credit: CDC. |
 | 3-D image from NOAA Exclusive Economic Zone Mapping Project Ridge to south of Pioneer Seamount Turbidity currents debouch from Pioneer Canyon, strike ridge, and are deflected Huge dune structures are formed which extend many miles to the south. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Small wooden stand on ridge in Mojave Desert Station built during observations on Transcontinental Traverse work Triangulation party of Woodrow Johnson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Knife-edged ridge showing effects of erosion with multiple steep stream valleys. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A knife-edge ridge on Kauai on the Na Pali coast. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Looking down from the top of a pressure ridge. Man in picture provides sense of height of ridge. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | View of a weasel from the top of a pressure ridge out on the Beaufort Sea. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Inspecting pressure ridge in northern Bering Sea. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Chart showing world's largest mountain range - the mid-ocean ridge system. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "Blue Ridge Parkway" by Justin Wilder Commentary: "A ride through the blue ridge parkway on my motorcycle." | "Aspen Fire 3" by Jean Ilderton Commentary: "Aspen Fire near Tucson June 2003 - fire along the ridge line ." |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | At the expiration of ten years there will be evacuated: the bridgehead of Coblenz and the territories north of a line to be drawn from the intersection between the frontiers of Belgium, Germany and Holland, running about from 4 kilometres south of Aix-la-Chapelle, then to and following the crest of Forst Gemund, then east of the railway of the Urft valley, then along Blankenheim, Valdorf, Dreis, Ulmen to and following the Moselle from Bremm to Nehren, then passing by Kappel and Simmern, then following the ridge of the heights between Simmern and the Rhine and reaching this river at Bacharach; all the places valleys, roads and railways mentioned above being excluded from the area evacuated. (reference) |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | That night Al stole a fence rail and made a ridge pole on the truck, braced at both ends |
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Economic History | Solomon Islands | In 1998 Ross Mining of Australia began producing gold at Gold Ridge on Guadalcanal. (references) |
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Dennis Miller | Strawberry Zinfandel goes with Filet o' Fish or Chicken McNuggets while Boone's Blackberry Ridge should be reserved for McRibb or a Quarter Pounder. |
Mark Shields | Governor Ridge, nobody questions the closeness of your relationship, the trust and confidence between you and the president. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Majority Leader, a very prominent, conservative Republican, Congressman Ernest Istook of Oklahoma, has joined Democrats in demanding that Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge testify in open session before Congress. |
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James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | But eighty years ago our population was confined on the west by the ridge of the Alleghanies. |
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| "Ridge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.52% of the time. "Ridge" is used about 1,225 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.52% | 1,023 | 7,253 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.48% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,225 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ridge" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Ridge | Last name | 2,000 | 6,295 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "ridge". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Rigby | Male | English | A ridge farm |
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| USA | Blue Ridge Real Estate Company |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Ridge, MD 2. Ridge, NY (CDP, FIPS 61665) 3. Ridge, VA |
Expressions using "ridge": alum Ridge ♦ alveolar ridge ♦ Alveolar Ridge Augmentation ♦ basking Ridge ♦ Beckett Ridge ♦ bee Ridge ♦ Benton Ridge ♦ blue Ridge ♦ blue Ridge Manor ♦ blue Ridge Mountains ♦ blue Ridge Summi ♦ Buckhead Ridge ♦ buffalo Ridge ♦ burr Ridge ♦ center Ridge ♦ chestnut Ridge ♦ Chicago Ridge ♦ consolidated ridge ♦ cool Ridge ♦ cutler Ridge ♦ Dry Ridge ♦ East Ridge ♦ Elk Ridge ♦ Florida Ridge ♦ Garden Ridge ♦ Glen Ridge ♦ Grand Ridge ♦ Gravel Ridge ♦ Green Ridge ♦ gum ridge ♦ Hickory Ridge ♦ High Ridge ♦ Holly Ridge ♦ Huber Ridge ♦ Iron Ridge ♦ Karbers Ridge ♦ Lake Ridge ♦ Lime Ridge ♦ maple ridge ♦ Mineral Ridge ♦ Mission Ridge ♦ moving ridge ♦ Mustang Ridge ♦ Oak Ridge ♦ Oak Ridge North ♦ Ocean Ridge ♦ Park Ridge ♦ pea ridge ♦ Pine Island Ridge ♦ Pine Ridge ♦ Pine Ridge at Crestwood ♦ pleasant ridge ♦ Pleasure Ridge P ♦ Pleasure Ridge Park ♦ Pound Ridge ♦ Prairie Ridge ♦ Ridge Farm ♦ Ridge Manor ♦ Ridge Manor Esta ♦ Ridge Manor West ♦ ridge of high pressure ♦ ridge of the nose ♦ ridge of the roof ♦ ridge pole ♦ ridge problem ♦ ridge regression ♦ ridge rope ♦ Ridge Spring ♦ ridge tent ♦ ridge tile ♦ Ridge Wood Heights ♦ River Ridge ♦ Rocky Ridge ♦ Sand Ridge ♦ Sandy Ridge ♦ Silver Ridge ♦ South Gate Ridge ♦ Stone Ridge ♦ subtropical ridge ♦ superciliary ridge ♦ supraorbital ridge ♦ Taylor Ridge ♦ teeth ridge ♦ Tennessee Ridge ♦ Thompson Ridge ♦ Villa Ridge ♦ Walnut Ridge ♦ Wheat Ridge ♦ Wind Ridge ♦ Wood Ridge. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ridge": ridge-and-furrow, ridge-backed, ridge-board, ridge-filler, ridge-like, ridge-line, ridge-lines, ridge-piece, ridge-pole, ridge-top, ridge-walk, ridge-walkers, ridge-walks. | |
Ending with "ridge": Bel-Ridge, box-ridge, mid-ocean-ridge, skyline-ridge, tie-ridge, Wood-Ridge. | |
Containing "ridge": oceanic-ridge-basalt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
blue ridge mountain | 1,721 | tom ridge | 149 |
garden ridge | 1,559 | oak ridge | 142 |
basking ridge nj | 1,431 | ruby ridge | 139 |
blue ridge parkway | 1,068 | fingernail ridge | 135 |
park ridge illinois | 523 | pound ridge ny | 121 |
blue ridge mountain resort | 420 | chicago ridge illinois | 111 |
blue ridge georgia | 341 | maple ridge | 110 |
oak ridge tennessee | 341 | desert marriott ridge | 108 |
blue ridge | 314 | blue cable ridge | 106 |
oak ridge boy | 309 | wheat ridge co | 105 |
vimy ridge | 270 | oak ridge nj | 101 |
ridge | 242 | the ridge tahoe | 100 |
garden ridge pottery | 237 | pine ridge | 95 |
blue college community ridge | 235 | chicago ridge mall | 95 |
eagle ridge | 191 | vista ridge mall | 94 |
willow ridge | 183 | high ridge mo | 93 |
park ridge new jersey | 181 | eagle ridge resort | 91 |
ridge vent | 172 | ridge ny | 87 |
glen ridge new jersey | 169 | dry ridge kentucky | 80 |
hurricane ridge | 154 | walnut ridge ar | 78 |
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| Language | Translations for "ridge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bergrug (mountain ridge), bergkam (mountain ridge). (various references) | |
Albanian | zhubër (crease, wrinkle), vargmal (edge, ghat), varg (cavalcade, chain, column, concatenation, course, file, in file, line, network, nexus, number, range, rank, row, series, string, succession, train, variety, verse), kurriz (back), kreshtë (crest, frill, top), hullizë (flute, pinstripe). (various references) | |
Arabic | كورنيش (cornice), نتوء جبلي (buttress, rib), قمة جبل (pinnacle, spine, summit, top), سلسلة تلال, جعل للشيء قمة, إمتد و كأنه سلسلة تلال, أوج (acme, apex, climax, culmination, noontide, pinnacle, pitch, summit, top, zenith), رصيف (dock, flagging, footpath, kerb, levee, path, recife, sidewalk, stance). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръб (arris, board, border, brim, brink, crease, edge, flange, fold, fringe, hem, keel, ledge, limb, list, margin, rand, rib, rim, shoulder, side), рязка (incision, notch, scar, score, streak, stria, stripe, weal, welt), риф (key, ledge, reef, shelf, skerry), хребет (comb, crest, knife edge), гребен (comb, crest, edge, heckle, rack, ripple, screw), водораздел, образувам ивици (ribbon), насаждам в леха, набраздявам (furrow, gully, gutter, line, rib, seam), било на покрив, било (back, comb, crest, summit), подводна скала (reef, sunken rock), планинска верига (chain, hump), ивица между бразди, изпъкнала ивица. (various references) | |
Chinese | 脊 (back, spine), 鑲 (border, to embed, to inlay), 土坎, 岡 (mound). (various references) | |
Czech | páteř (backbone, spine, vertebrae), hřeben (comb, crest, spine, top), hřbet (back, bridge, Chine, dorsum, saddle, spine). (various references) | |
Danish | rygning (fumigation, smoking), ryg (back), kant (border, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, rand, rim), bed (bed), højderyg, højtryksryg (ridge of high pressure, wedge), hoejderyg (crest, ridges), jordstykke (block, break, field, parcel of land, patch of land, plot, plot of land), bakkekam, kam (comb), skrueisvold, kip (kip), kiplinie, mønning, oceanryg, jordvold (bank). (various references) | |
Dutch | rug van hoge druk (ridge of high pressure, wedge), rug (back, mountain ridge), zijkant (sideissue, sideshow), wig (wedge), standrug, ophoging (back-filling, bank, banking, embankment, fill, fill embankment, rock fill), onderzeese rug (crest), oceanische rug (crest), nok (coping), niet-beploegbare strook grond onder de wijnstokken, kant (bank, border, brim, brink, edge, edging, fringe, lace, margin, rim, shore, side), ijsrug, hoek (angle, corner), dakruiter. (various references) | |
Esperanto | montspino (mountain ridge), montodorso (mountain ridge), montkresto (mountain ridge), kresto (mountain ridge), eĝo (mountain ridge). (various references) | |
Faeroese | reykur (mountain ridge), kambur (mountain ridge), egg (egg, eggs, mountain ridge). (various references) | |
Farsi | مرزبندی کردن , مرز (Balk, Border, Bound, Boundary, Mark, Outskirt, Precinct, Rand), نوک (Apex, Ascendant, Barb, Bill, End, Head, Horn, Jag, Peak, Point, Summit, Tip, Top, Vertex), لبه (Border, Brim, Edge, Hem, Ledge, Lip, Margin, Rand, Rim, Verge, Wayside, Welt), خطالراس , خرپشته (Mound), شیاردارکردن (Channel, Groove, Gutter, Rib, Rut), برامدگی (Bulge, Bump, Burr, Ganglion, Knob, Ledge, Mound, Nook, Nub, Outgrwth, Overhang, Projection, Stigma, Tumor). (various references) | |
Finnish | selänne (crest, ridge of high pressure, wedge), harju (eskar), harjanne (crest). (various references) | |
French | faîte, crête (mountain ridge), arête (mountain ridge, rib). (various references) | |
German | Rücken (back, backs, crest, hitch, Mount, move, move on, move over, move up, push, saddle, spine, thrust), Kamm (comb, crest, mountain ridge, stalk, top), Grat (border, brim, brink, burr, edge, edging, fin, fringe, hip, razor edge, rim, thorn), First (crest, peak, summit, surface, top). (various references) | |
Greek | κορυφογραμμή (crest), ράχη (backboard, spine, tergum). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לתלם (furrow), תלם (furrow, groove, rut), רכס (buckle, mound, mountain, range). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gerinc (backbone, crest, keel, saddle, spine, stagnation, trough, web), tetőgerinc (creasing), taréj (cop, crest), orom (gable, head, peak, pinnacle, spire, summit, top, vertex, vertices), hegyhát, hegygerinc (apex, apices), hátság (table-land), bakhát (balk, open furrow, rig). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bubungan (cam, pitch, ridgepole). (various references) | |
Italian | porca (bed), colmo (crown, full, height, peak, pitch, pride, summit). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 峰 (peak), 峠 (difficult part, mountain pass), 尾 (tail). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おね (spur), お (at, cord, drawing, figure, illustration, in, on, picture, strap, tail, thong), リッジ , ねじやま (screw thread), うね (rib), かいれい (going from door to door greeting relatives and friends), むね (breast, chest, instructions, principle, purport, thinking, will), やまのせ, みね (back of a sword, peak), とうげ (difficult part, pass). (various references) | |
Korean | 능선. (various references) | |
Manx | sker (key, ledger, ledger in sea, reef, rockface, sea rock, skerry, underwater rock), rinn (foreland, hook, point of a weapon, rinn), ooiraghey (earth, mould), oirrag (term), mullagh (apex, capital, ceiling, ceiling of prices, crest, crest of wave, crisis, crisis of illness, culmination, eminence, peak, pinnacle, roofing, summit, top, vertex), jannoo oirragyn (ridging), immyr (bed, butt, headland, shelf under water), drommey (dorsal), dreeym (arch, back, camber, down, edge, fret, hillside, instep, saddle, shed, terrace). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | idgeray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | crista (chaplet, crest, currycomb, edge, gardenbed, hummock, spine, tip, top). (various references) | |
Romanian | strat (bed, coating, film, layer, ledge, lick, mantle, measures, overlay, ply, seam, sheet, stratum), se umfla (bag, balloon, belly out, billow, bloat out, bulge, bulk, distend, fill out, flow, swell), ondula (corrugate, crape, Crimp, crisp, curl, float, ripple, roll, wave, wind), lanţ (bands, cable, catena, catenation, chain, concatenation, fetters, link, range, series, string, succession, train), culme (acme, apex, apogee, climax, crest, culmination, height, heyday, it, noon, noonday, noontide, paroxysm, peak, perfection, perisher, summit, top, vertex, zenith), creastã (aigrette, back, brow, comb, coping, crest, edge, height, hogback, knoll, razor edge, spine, top, tuft), creţ (crease, Crimp, crisp, curly, curly haired, frizzy, kinky, pleated, wrinkle), coamã (coping, crest, fillet, mane), brãzda (furrow, gutter, line, plough, score, slice, streak, wrinkle), aşeza în straturi (layer), încreţiturã (cockle, crease, dimple, flow, rugosity, wrinkle), încreţi (corrugate, crisp, curl, dimple, fold, frizz, frizzle, knit, pleat, purse, ripple, ruffle, shrivel, wave, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Russian | хребет (back, chain), конек (crease, fancy, hobbyhorse, ice skate, pipit, skate, titlark), грядка (garden bed, garden-bed), гребень (arris, cam, comb, crest, crown, flange, hackle, peak, pectination, ruff, tongue), подводная скала (reef). (various references) | |
Scottish | fàir, fàire, druim (back), balc (misdeed). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sleme (purlin), greben (card, comb, crag, crest, mull, overfall, reef, ripple, skerry), grba nosa. (various references) | |
Spanish | caballón (balk, baulk). (various references) | |
Swedish | ås (purlin, ridges, rise), tilta (furrow slice, worked strip), takås (purlin), rygg (back, Chine, spine), nock (cam, end). (various references) | |
Thai | แนวหรือสัน, เป็นแนวสัน, ส่วนที่นูน (bulge), สันเขา, ทำให้เป็นสัน. (various references) | |
Turkish | yükselti (altitude, elevation, rise), tepe (apex, apical, cap, crest, crown, down, eminence, eminency, fell, head, height, hill, hump, Mount, peak, rise, roof, tip, top, topknot, vertex), sırt (back, dors-, dorsal, dorso-, saddle, shoulder), kabarık çizgi, dağ silsilesi (chain of mountains, mountain chain, mountain range), dağ sırası (mountain chain, mountain range), çapalanmış düz sıra, çıkıntı (bulge, foreland, jut, ledge, offset, outgrowth, overhang, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, raise, salience, saliency, spur, style, stylus, tab). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ulgam. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хребет (edge, spine, vertebrae), край (area, border, brim, brink, edge, edging, end, lip, list, margin, outskirts, rand, skirt, tail, verge), гребінь гори (nab), вододіл (divide, watershed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ngọn (crown, head, top), chóp (cap, comb, crown, top), chỏm (cap, crest, cusp, head, summit). (various references) | |
Welsh | trum, grynio, grwn, esgair (leg, shank), crib (brow, comb, crest). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dorsa, dorsi, dorso, dorsum, iuga, iuge, iugi, iugis, iugo, iugum, jugum, promontorium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ridge": ridged, ridgel, ridgeline, ridgelines, ridgeling, ridgelings, ridgels, ridgepole, ridgepoles, ridges. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ridge": abridge, bridge, browridge, cartridge, drawbridge, flybridge, footbridge, fridge, parridge, partridge, porridge, teethridge. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ridge": abridged, abridgement, abridgements, abridger, abridgers, abridges, bridgeable, bridged, bridgehead, bridgeheads, bridgeless, bridges, bridgework, bridgeworks, browridges, cartridges, drawbridges, flybridges, footbridges, fridges, parridges, partridgeberries, partridgeberry, partridges, porridges, teethridges, unabridged, unbridgeable, unbridged. (additional references) | |
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"Ridge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cridge, dridge, eridge, Erridge, kidge, prodge, radgy, rdig, redge, rerge, riage, rideg, ridex, ridgy, Ridiger, ridje, Riege, Riegel, Rigden, rige, riged, rigge, rigu, ringe, rodeg, Rodga, Rodge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ridge" (pronounced ri"j) |
| 3 | r i" j | abridge, bridge, fridge. |
| 2 | -i" j | Midge. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dirge, gride. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-r" | |
-1 letter: dire, dreg, gied, gird, grid, ired, ride. | |
-2 letters: die, dig, erg, ged, gid, gie, ire, red, reg, rei, rid, rig. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, er, id, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-r" | |
+1 letter: begird, bridge, digger, dinger, dirges, dreigh, driegh, edgier, engird, fridge, gilder, girded, girder, girdle, girned, girted, glider, grided, grides, grimed, griped, guider, reding, regild, ridged, ridgel, ridges, rigged, ringed. | |
+2 letters: abridge, begirds, bridged, bridges, brigade, cringed, deraign, diggers, digress, dingers, dingier, diverge, dodgier, doggier, dreeing, druggie, dungier, energid, engirds, ergodic, eroding, figured, firedog, fridges, frigged, fringed, gaudier, giddier, gilders, girders, girdled, girdler, girdles, girthed, gladier, glaired, gliders, gloried, godlier, gradine, grained, gridder, griddle, grieved, grifted, grilled, grinded, grinder, grinned, gripped, gritted, grodier, groined, guiders, guilder, hagride, hedgier, herding, ignored, ledgier, negroid, podgier, prigged, pudgier, reading, redding, redoing, redwing, reeding, regilds, regrind, reigned, rending, ridgels, ridgier, righted, sedgier, triaged, trigged, wedgier, wergild, wringed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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