ridge
山脊,山脉,脊柱,脊梁
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Definitions
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- : a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
- : the long and narrow upper edge, angle, or crest of something, as a hill, wave, or vault.
- : the back of an animal.
- : any raised, narrow strip, as on cloth.
- : the horizontal line in which the tops of the rafters of a roof meet.
- : a narrow, elongated area of high pressure.
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ridged, ridg·ing.
- : to provide with or form into a ridge or ridges.
- : to mark with or as if with ridges.
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Examples
Scientists can conclude from those tiny ridges how active someone had been.
I don’t know if I’d normally be hiking at eleven o’clock at night, up on some ridge, during a thunderstorm.
As a mountain-bike trail builder and rider, I have an intimate knowledge of the contours of the forest, of each ridge and each drainage.
One, which came to be known as the CZU Lightning Complex fire, was burning across the ridges and through the canyons towards Nichols’s house.
The traditional “river groover” is an ammo can with an airtight top, which cuts ridges in your behind if you sit on it for too long—hence the name.
The fundamental issue: the boundaries of the underwater Lomonosov Ridge.
That should immediately destroy any illusions about how “libertarian” the Liberty Ridge ruling might be.
This vision, in the context of the incident at Liberty Ridge, reveals a substantial weakness in our constitutional framework.
To dwell on that for a moment is to get a sharp taste of the overarching issue that Liberty Ridge raises for us.
High on the slopes of Everest, some 70 sherpas surged over a ridge to see the beating.
With this company he had rendered valiant service in the campaign which ended with the battle of Pea Ridge.
A short distance off was another ridge or spur of the mountain, widening out into almost a plateau.