ridge

Betekenis (English)

Noun

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.
3. The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
4. The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
5. The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
6. A chain of mountains.
7. A chain of hills.
8. A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
9. An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.

Verb

1. To form into a ridge
2. To extend in ridges

Synonyms

crest

spine

back

🔙

mound

top

🔝

edge

peak

range

hill

roof ridge

comb

mountain range

mountain ridge

rise

ridgeline

rooftree

bank

🏦

earthen dyke

ridgepole

swell

summit

backbone

pass

furrow

hip

wale

wave

👋

rib

wrinkle

chain of mountains

line

brow

ice ridge

spur

crease

paddle

pinnacle

pleat

prominence

rear

ridge of high pressure

roof

sandbank

screw thread

scrubber

seam

shovel

spade

spinal column

tail

tergum

tiptop

trowel

undulation

vertebrae

vertex

weal

wedge

wheal

wold

hot-bed

raised bed

high ground

difficult part

hill-top

push broom

submarine ridge

field ridge

border dike

ridge of pressure

acknowledger

apex

balk

baulk

behind

border

boundary

broom

🧹

brush

bulge

butt

causeway

climax

contour

coping

crown

👑

curl

dam

dome

dorsum

dune

earth up

embankment

eminence

eyebrow

fin

flipper

🐬

fold

horseback

ledge

mane

mark

mountain

⛰️

needle

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɹɪd͡ʒ/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: rigge

Inherited from Old English: hryċġ

Cognate with Skots: rig

Cognate with Noord-Fries: reg

Cognate with Fries: rêch

Cognate with Nederlands: rug

Cognate with Duits: Rücken

Cognate with Sweeds: rygg

Cognate with Yslands: hryggur

Cognate with Albanees: kërrus

In summary

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”).
Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).