ridge

«ridge» in Mova's school dictionary: A long, narrow, high strip of land along the top of hills… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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

• 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.
• Most of the Earth's volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor along mid-ocean ridges.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ridge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.