ridge
part of speech
noun (a ridge, ridges)
meaning for a pupil
1) A long, narrow, high strip of land along the top of hills or mountains. tree →
2) A raised line on a surface: the ridges on a coin's edge. tree →
3) The top edge where two sloping parts of a roof meet. tree →
4) (weather) A long area of high air pressure. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Psalm it means the raised strip of plowed ground between furrows, which God waters with rain. Interpretation: Tradition reads this psalm as praise for God who sends rain and gives the harvest. In the primary lessons: In geography lessons, mountain ridges and ridge walks. In science, fingerprints have ridges. In everyday life, ridges on a crisp or a coin. Phrases: mountain ridge, ridge of high pressure.
examples
- Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof. (Writings PSA.65.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- We walked along the ridge and saw both valleys. tree →
- The roof's ridge was covered in moss. tree →
- Your fingerprints have tiny ridges. tree →
- Ridged crisps hold more dip. tree →
- A ridge of high pressure brought sunshine. tree →
- The coin has ridges round its edge. tree →
- Once they wandered a long way into the forest, and even ventured together to climb the high ridge. tree →
note
Countable. Adjective: ridged. Sounds like «fridge» without f.
In the corpora
- Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof.
- A spider monkey's tail grips a branch like a fifth hand, with ridged bare skin on the tip like a fingerprint.
- The ridges form before birth, shaped by how the baby's skin grows and moves in the womb.
- Where plates move apart, magma rises to fill the gap and makes new crust, as along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
- Most volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor, along the mid-ocean ridges where new crust is made.
Trees and pragmatics
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