ridge

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

cresta

crinale

colmo

costone

catena

dorsale

montagna

⛰️

schiena

🔙

spigolo

cordigliera

displuvio

giogaia

bava

bavatura

collina

costa

crista

dorso

🔙

lisca

Opposto di

groove, trough

sinonimi

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

⛰️

Traduzioni

Grat

crête

arête

🦴

Kamm

Rücken

🔙

cresta

First

kam

sırt

🔙

Bergrücken

cresta

bergkam

cumeeira

bordure

bosse

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ɹɪd͡ʒ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: rigge

Ereditato da inglese antico: hryċġ

Affine scozzese: rig

Affine frisone settentrionale: reg

Affine frisone occidentale: rêch

Affine olandese: rug

Affine tedesco: Rücken

Affine svedese: rygg

Affine islandese: hryggur

Affine albanese: 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”).