ridge

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

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