ridge
- Proper noun. (surname, from Middle English) after a natural landscape feature.
- Proper noun. (given name, male) transferred from the surname. .
- Noun. (context, anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
- Noun. Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- Noun. The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- Noun. Highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
- Noun. A chain of mountains.
- Noun. A chain of hills.
- Noun. A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- Noun. (meteorology) A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.
- Verb. (transitive) To form into a ridge.
- Verb. (intransitive) To extend in ridges.
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