Ridge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

   “The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.”

3. isim The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

   “mountain ridge”

4. isim The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
5. isim 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. isim 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. isim A chain of hills.
8. isim A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
9. isim An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
10. fiil To form into a ridge.
11. fiil To extend in ridges.
12. özel isim A village in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
13. özel isim A toponymic surname from Middle English, named after the natural feature.
14. özel isim A male given name transferred from the surname.