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Definition: Ledge |
LedgeNoun1. A projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ledge" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Building & Civil Engineering | A loose term meaning hard rock underlying gravel or other loose surface soil. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Rock of relatively great thickness and extent in its native location. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | A shelf-like projection, on the side of a rock or mountain; under-water, a ridge of rocks near the shore. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A narrow shelf or projection of rock, much longer than wide, formed on a rock wall or cliff face b. A rocky outcrop; solid rock c. An underwater ridge of rocks, esp. near the shore; also, a nearshore reef d. A quarry exposure or natural outcrop of a mineral deposit e. A bed or several beds in a quarry or natural outcrop, particularly those projecting in a steplike manner f. The surface of such a projecting bed g. In mining, a projecting outcrop or vein, commonly of quartz, that is supposed to be mineralized; also, any narrow zone of mineralized rock h. A mass of rock that constitutes a valuable mineral deposit i. A colloquial syn. of bedrock, used in northern Michigan j. The only true ledges are deposits of oil-shale, slate, or the like. A ledge is a horizontal layer, therefore a vein or lode is not a ledge. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A stratum in the ionosphere within which the gradient of ionisation density with respect to height decreases and then increases but without becoming negative. Source: European Union. (references) |
Transportation | Raised or projecting edge or molding on a piece. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: LedgeSynonym: shelf (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Hill; (height); cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze, ness. |
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. |
Horizontality | Table land, plateau, ledge; butte; mesa (plain). |
Support | Board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet, trivet, arbor, rack; mantel, mantle piece, mantleshelf; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ledge |
| English words defined with "ledge": Berme ♦ hand truck ♦ Ledgy, Lidge, Linch ♦ thriftily, truck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ledge": block field, block sea, blockmeer, breakback ♦ catch bench, chaos of rocks, chip blasting, crusted strand ♦ F1 layer, felsenmeer ♦ Mantel-piece, mountain-top detritus, multiple-bench quarrying ♦ primary drilling ♦ rimstone, rimstone shelf ♦ shelf quarry, shelfstone, single-bench quarrying, stone field. (references) |
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Screenplays | You could be walking down the street tomorrow, feeling good about yourself, drink free, drug free, looking forward to the future and somebody accidentally nudges their poodle off of a 75th floor ledge. And he's headed for the ground at a hundred-and-seventy-five thousand miles per hour (Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer; writing credit: Denis Leary) You're on the ledge Silver (Beverly Hills, 90210; writing credit: Ed Ferrara; Jim Lincoln) | |
Lyrics | I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend, (Jumper; performing artist: Third Eye Blind) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Man on the Ledge (1955) The Lost Ledge (1915) Over the Ledge (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rocky ledge skirting island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A Maryland Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, seeking shelter under a rocky ledge. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | R. Clifford prepares A. Bryson for dive to Jeffries Ledge off Mass. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | A nurse shark under a ledge. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Vertical ledge of massive Porites sp. coral. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | A ledge and trough of Gray's Reef. Credit: Sanctuaries. |
 | Loggerhead Sea Turtle under a ledge. Credit: Sanctuaries. |  | 10 Big Horn Sheep standing on rocky ledge. Credit: Academy of Natural Science. |
 | Blue Heron standing on a rocky ledge in the Deschutes River area. Credit: Unknown. |  | Stranded on Bembridge Ledge, Isle of Wight, circa early February 1919. She had gone aground while en route to Southampton, England, during post-World War I transport operations, and was later refloated and returned to service. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Ledge" by Hank Furnbach Commentary: "A ledge in NH (note; there is a climber in the center of the picture)." | "Hole in the Rocks" by Ron McCray Commentary: "A natural juxstoposition of small boulders guarding an opening to a small ledge overlooking Garner Valley in the San Jacinto Mountains of southern California." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ma took the cup and set it on the window ledge. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Ledge" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.22% of the time. "Ledge" is used about 338 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) | 98.22% | 332 | 15,754 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.89% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 338 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ledge": epitaxial ledge ♦ Grand Ledge ♦ ledge rock ♦ window ledge. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "ledge": window-ledge. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ledge"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtresë xeherore, sergjen (shelf), parvaz (door-case, fingerplate), buzë shkëmbi. (various references) | |
Arabic | نتوء (bulge, bump, bunch, cusp, facet, jut, knob, lump, nub, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salience, salient, shell, snag, spur, stick, stick up), حافة (board, border, brim, brink, edge, fringe, hem, lip, margin, plinth, rim, verge), سلسلة صخور تحت الماء, عرق معدني (lode, reef, rib, streak), رف (bracket, rack, tablet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ръб (arris, board, border, brim, brink, crease, edge, flange, fold, fringe, hem, keel, limb, list, margin, rand, rib, ridge, rim, shoulder, side), рудна жила (course, lode, reef, rib), реборд (rib), риф (key, reef, ridge, shelf, skerry), тераса (bench, deck, decking, terrace), корниз (coping, cornice, drip-moulding, dripstone, eaves, label, molding, moulding, perch, trim), залеж (deposit, lode, mine, pocket), перваз (baseboard, border, edge, sill, skirt, skirting, skirting board, trim, washboard), издатина (burr, horn, hump, jut, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, salient, set off, shelf, swell, tuber). (various references) | |
Chinese | 壁架. (various references) | |
Czech | lišta (ribbon, slat), polièka (stand), římsa (cornice, moulding). (various references) | |
Danish | stenroese, klippeundergrund (bedrock, bed-rock), ionisationsbanke, grundfjeld (basal complex, basement, basement complex, basement rock, bedrock, bed-rock, bur, burr, country rock, enclosing rock, fundamental complex, main bottom, native rock, partition rock, wall rock), fjeld (bedrock, bed-rock), afsats (banks, inset, shaft station, station in the shaft). (various references) | |
Dutch | wakende klip, vast gesteente (bedrock, bed-rock, main bottom), rotsachtige ondergrond (bedrock, bed-rock), neuslat, klip (cliff, reef), ionisatierichel, ionisatiebank, blinde klip (sunken rock). (various references) | |
Farsi | لبه (Border, Brim, Edge, Hem, Lip, Margin, Rand, Ridge, Rim, Verge, Wayside, Welt), طاقچه (Niche), برامدگی (Bulge, Bump, Burr, Ganglion, Knob, Mound, Nook, Nub, Outgrwth, Overhang, Projection, Ridge, Stigma, Tumor). (various references) | |
Finnish | vedenalainen kallioriutta, uloke (projection), peruskallio (ground-rock), kallioseinämän ulkonema, kallioperä (bedrock, bed-rock, main bottom), ionisaatioporras. (various references) | |
French | sous-sol rocheux (ledge rock), saillie, roche de fondation (ledge rock), rebord, récif, haut-fond, couche métallifère, bedrock, barre rocheuse, banc d'ionisation, banc de terrain métallifère, assise rocheuse, arêtier. (various references) | |
German | leiste (bar, baseboard, border, groin, rail, strip, trim), fenstersims (sill). (various references) | |
Greek | χείλος (brim, edge). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעקה (balustrade, banister, guard rail, handrail, parapet, rail, railing), מדף (plank, rack, shelf, tab, tray), מסגרת (bordure, compass, frame, framework, orbit, rim, setting, skeleton, stronghold), זיז (boss, bracket, jutty, lug, projection, shelf, tooth), אדן החלון (sill, windowsill), אצטבה (shelf). (various references) | |
Hungarian | párkány (berm, eaves, fascia, list, offset, ridge, shelf, shelves, sill, string). (various references) | |
Italian | scogliera (bluff, cliff, reef, rock), roccia madre (bedrock, bed-rock), roccia di base (bedrock, bed-rock), ripiano (level ground, shelf, terrace), cornice (cornice, frame, molding, moulding, picture frame), catena di scogli, barra rocciosa, banco roccioso, banco di ionizzazione, baglio (beam). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 岩棚 , 出張り (projection). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | でばり (projection), いわたな, いわだな. (various references) | |
Korean | 선반 (lathe, mill, Mills, Rack, shelf, Shelves). (various references) | |
Manx | rimmey (berm, rim), oirr (border, brim, brink, butt, edge, edging, margin, rim, verge), leod. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hylle. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edgelay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | saliência (buckle, burr, calk, jut, knurl, lug, outstanding, projection, prominence, prominency, protrusion, protuberance, relief, salience). (various references) | |
Romanian | terasã (terrace), strat (bed, coating, film, layer, lick, mantle, measures, overlay, ply, ridge, seam, sheet, stratum), proeminenţã (dint, knob, nose, primacy, projection, prominence, protuberance, salience), prichici (mantel piece), margine (abutment, bank, border, bounds, brim, brink, compass, curb, edge, edging, end, extremity, fringe, kerb, limit, list, Marge, margin, outskirts, periphery, precinct, rim, seam, termination, tether, verge), ieşiturã (dint, flange, overhang), bordurã (binding, border, curb, curb-stone, edging, flange, frame, fringe, kerb, list, margin, trimming). (various references) | |
Russian | риф (reef, shelf, skerry), выступ (bench, brow, bulge, claw, cog, eminence, flange, horn, jut, knob, lug, nib, offset, overhang, perch, prominency, promontory, protrusion, salience, salient, shelf, stud, tongue, torus, tuber), залежь (bed, lode), полочка;уступ. (various references) | |
Scottish | uirigh (a couch, bed, couch, ledge in a precipice), tàdh (a ledge), farragan (a ledge). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ležište (bearing), sloj (coat, layer, patch, ply, strata, stratum, thickness), obod (arris, brim, edge, flange, rim, shoulder, visor), ispupčena ivica. (various references) | |
Spanish | anaquel (bracket, rack, shelf). (various references) | |
Swedish | hylla (acclaim, acknowledge, congratulate, embrace, espouse, hail, shelf), avsats. (various references) | |
Turkish | pencere pervazı, çıkıntı (bulge, foreland, jut, offset, outgrowth, overhang, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, raise, ridge, salience, saliency, spur, style, stylus, tab). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kert. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | риф (bank, reef), карниз (cornice, eaves, perch), виступ (address, appearance, corbel, gibbosity, jut, nib, offset, overhang, projection, promontory, protrusion, salience, salient, shoulder, snag, spine, teat, ward), планка (batten, cleat, lath, splint, splinter, stave, strip). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | gờ (bank, edge, edging). (various references) | |
Welsh | ysgafell (brow, shelf), astell (plank, shelf). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ledge": ledger, ledgers, ledges. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ledge": acknowledge, fledge, foreknowledge, frankpledge, impledge, kentledge, knowledge, misknowledge, pledge, repledge, sledge. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ledge": acknowledged, acknowledgedly, acknowledgement, acknowledgements, acknowledges, fledged, fledges, foreknowledges, frankpledges, impledged, impledges, kentledges, knowledgeabilities, knowledgeability, knowledgeable, knowledgeableness, knowledgeablenesses, knowledgeably, knowledges, misknowledges, pledged, pledgee, pledgees, pledgeor, pledgeors, pledger, pledgers, pledges, pledget, pledgets, repledged, repledges, sledged, sledgehammer, sledgehammered, sledgehammering, sledgehammers, sledges, unacknowledged, unfledged, unknowledgeable. (additional references) | |
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"Ledge" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aldega, delge, leage, lede, Ledyen, leedex, leege, lege, leige, lenge, lergie, Letgen, leuga, leuge, Lidget, pedge, vedge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ledge" (pronounced le"j) |
| 3 | l e" j | allege, fledge, pledge, sledge. |
| 2 | -e" j | dredge, edge, hedge, sedge, wedge. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: glede, gleed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-l" | |
-1 letter: dele, edge, geed, geld, gled, glee. | |
-2 letters: dee, del, eel, eld, ged, gee, gel, led, lee, leg. | |
-3 letters: de, ed, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-l" | |
+1 letter: deluge, fledge, gelded, gelder, gelled, gledes, gleeds, gleyed, ledger, ledges, legend, legged, pledge, redleg, sledge. | |
+2 letters: alleged, angeled, deglaze, deleing, deluged, deluges, fledged, fledges, gaveled, gelated, gelders, gentled, glaceed, gleamed, gleaned, gleeked, gleeted, goldeye, grueled, lagered, leagued, ledgers, ledgier, legated, legends, pledged, pledgee, pledger, pledges, pledget, redlegs, regaled, reglued, sledged, sledges, wergeld. | |
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