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 ridge [ridʒ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 脊, 山脊, 山脉

[医] 嵴, 脊, 棱线




    ridge
    [ noun ]
    1. a long narrow natural elevation or striation

    2. <noun.object>
    3. any long raised strip

    4. <noun.shape>
    5. a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean

    6. <noun.object>
    7. a long narrow range of hills

    8. <noun.object>
    9. any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane

    10. <noun.body>
    11. a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters

    12. <noun.artifact>
    [ verb ]
    1. extend in ridges

    2. <verb.stative>
      The land ridges towards the South
    3. plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip

    4. <verb.creation>
    5. throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides

    6. <verb.contact>
      He ridged his corn
    7. spade into alternate ridges and troughs

    8. <verb.contact>
      ridge the soil
    9. form into a ridge

    10. <verb.change>


    Ridge \Ridge\ (r[i^]j), n. [OE. rigge the back, AS. hrycg; akin
    to D. rug, G. r["U]cken, OHG. rucki, hrukki, Icel. hryggr,
    Sw. rugg, Dan. ryg. [root]16.]
    1. The back, or top of the back; a crest. --Hudibras.

    2. A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a
    range; any extended elevation between valleys. ``The
    frozen ridges of the Alps.'' --Shak.

    Part rise crystal wall, or ridge direct. --Milton.

    3. A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow
    or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface
    of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.

    4. (Arch.) The intersection of two surface forming a salient
    angle, especially the angle at the top between the
    opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.

    5. (Fort.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from
    the salient angle of the covered way. --Stocqueler.


    Ridge \Ridge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ridged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Ridging}.]
    1. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to
    make into a ridge or ridges.

    Bristles ranged like those that ridge the back
    Of chafed wild boars. --Milton.

    2. To form into ridges with the plow, as land.

    3. To wrinkle. ``With a forehead ridged.'' --Cowper.

    1. A fire in the mountains increased from 3,000 acres Monday to 4,175 acres after winds fanned flames 200-300 feet high and sent the blaze racing along a mountain ridge into heavy timber.
    2. Gloves weren't removed for fear of frostbite. 'I'm not turning back now,' said John. 'Nor I' We stood on the summit ridge of McKinley at about 9pm.
    3. Showers and isolated thunderstorms dampened the eastern half of Texas and western Louisiana as warm air from the Gulf of Mexico rolled over a ridge of cooler air hovering over the area.
    4. "The rail spread apart enough to cause the wheels to drop into a ridge between the rails," he said. "The wheels dropped down between the rails and that's what kept it upright.
    5. Police said Aoun's gunners on a mountain ridge overlooking the Mediterranean fired two warning shots from a 155mm howitzer at the Victory I ferry as it approached the port of Jounieh on Friday morning.
    6. Motorcyle policemen, a cavalry unit and white-jacketed presidential guards with drawn swords lined the route of de Klerk's motorcade to an amphitheater at Union Buildings, the seat of the executive branch of government, on a ridge overlooking Pretoria.
    7. Atop the rooster-comb ridge, a dozen Karen soldiers crouch behind rocks overlooking a saddle where the Burmese have dug in. Rifle bullets whine over the outpost where the soldiers have already spent 10 difficult days.
    8. Five water-dropping helicopters and about 450 firefighters attempted to douse the fire as it raced along the ridge of homes near Hacienda Heights about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.
    9. Temperatures will shoot into the 90s this week across Iowa and other Midwestern growing regions as a high pressure ridge spreads into the area from the Southwest, said Harvey Freese, co-founder of FreeseNotis Weather Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa.
    10. Firefighters believe they have the upper hand on a 175-acre blaze along a mountain ridge north of Dinosaur that began Wednesday, said BLM spokesman Jim Anderson.
    11. The 13-member group led by James Frush, a writer and attorney from Seattle, climbed Everest via the traditional southeast ridge, the ministry said.
    12. Although the high pressure ridge is expected to shift east again and bring hot and dry weather back to the Midwest as soon as this weekend, some meteorologists expect it to also weaken again.
    13. The first flock of the gray birds, a quintet that flushed in unison, rose out-of-range along the side of a ridge to the east of guide Mike Smyth and his three gunners.
    14. Blue, who had carefully studied his surroundings from the top of the box, took off over the ridge east of camp and was gone.
    15. The Skycrane dropping its "bullet" punches four 15-to-20-foot holes in the ice at 75-yard intervals, but a massive pressure ridge of ice stands in the way.
    16. Radio messages received by the British base camp said Ms. Flowers fell from an ice ridge on Thursday, and she was knocked unconscious and broke her glasses.
    17. The twin-engine plane on a chartered flight crashed Sunday less than 200 feet from the top of a 2,270-foot ridge in the Santa Ana Mountains, 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
    18. Brice, 36, said their expedition established its advanced base camp where the ridge begins, at 21,000 feet in the east Rongbuk Glacier.
    19. As the helicopter swooped over a small ridge, Zarate looked down on a woman and child standing next to a thatched hut with their latest coca harvest drying in the sun nearby.
    20. Scientists believe this ridge and others in the ocean floor may help create polynyas by pushing warmer water from the bottom up to the ice cover, where it melts the ice or prevents it from forming, Gordon said.
    21. It is a notable (climb) in the history of Everest." This was the fifth British Everest expedition to tackle the ridge.
    22. Further back, for 20 or so miles along the border sand ridge, tanks stand poised at 100 yard intervals, waiting for the order to advance.
    23. The hoopla started in February when Robert Maurer, a real-estate developer, planted 87 very tall palm trees along a mountain ridge.
    24. Two trapped whales reversed course and headed back toward shore, frustrating efforts to coax them toward open water, as scientists probed an ice ridge for a weak spot that Soviet icebreakers could attack.
    25. Residents of suburban Sunshine Canyon were asked to be ready to leave their homes in case the fire crossed a ridge into their area, the sheriff's department said.
    26. Light sweeps up from behind the east ridge, then pours down over the cliff like liquid gold.
    27. We had to drive through flames." In Glendale, 10 miles north of Los Angeles, a wind-driven fire raced along a ridge, blackening about 100 acres of brush, threatening about 30 homes and prompting evacuation of about 50 people.
    28. Seventeen years ago he bought an Edwardian house, high on a wooded ridge above Redhill, in Surrey.
    29. A short time later, Guzman and Iltis were on a seed collecting expedition in the Sierra de Manatlan Mountains when they stepped over a ridge into a valley of overgrown pastures broken by clumps of trees where the laboratory now stands.
    30. Hike up the ridge, look to the east, and all you see is nature.
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