ridge

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ɹɪd͡ʒ/    /ɹɪd͡ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
    — He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid[…]
  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.
    — mountain ridge
  4. The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
    — Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
  5. The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
    — the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights
  6. A chain of mountains.
    — […]Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote.
  7. A chain of hills.
  8. A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
  9. An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
动词 v.
  1. To form into a ridge. transitive
  2. To extend in ridges. intransitive

词形变化

ridges plural rig alternative,dialectal ridges present,singular,third-person ridging participle,present ridged participle,past ridged past rig alternative,dialectal

词汇关系

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词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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