ridge
//ɹɪd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- ridges
- present (v1)
- ridge
- past (v2)
- ridged
- past participle (v3)
- ridged
- present participle
- ridging
- 3rd person singular
- ridges
Definitions
1.The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
2.Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.
3.The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick.
4.The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
1.To form into a ridge.
2.To extend in ridges.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4100
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”).