ridge

Significat (Anglès)

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. (transitive) To form into a ridge.
2. (intransitive) To extend in ridges.

Conceptes

cresta

aresta

espina de peix

esquena

🔙

cavallonar

Oposat a

groove, trough

Sinònims

crest

spine

back

🔙

mound

edge

peak

top

🔝

mountain range

roof ridge

hill

range

comb

mountain ridge

rooftree

bank

🏦

earthen dyke

ridgepole

ridgeline

rise

line

crease

chain of mountains

brow

ice ridge

wrinkle

wale

swell

backbone

wave

👋

hip

furrow

spur

rib

pass

summit

embankment

butt

earth up

dune

bulge

baulk

dorsum

dome

dam

needle

curl

brush

apex

paddle

mountain

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Traduccions

Grat

crête

arête

🦴

cresta

Kamm

cresta

Rücken

🔙

First

kam

bergkam

cumeeira

sırt

🔙

Bergrücken

crinale

bosse

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ɹɪd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: rigge

Heretat de anglès antic: hryċġ

Cognat amb escocès: rig

Cognat amb frisó septentrional: reg

Cognat amb frisó occidental: rêch

Cognat amb neerlandès: rug

Cognat amb alemany: Rücken

Cognat amb suec: rygg

Cognat amb islandès: hryggur

Cognat amb albanès: 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”).