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ridge

/rij/US // rɪdʒ //UK // (rɪdʒ) //

山脊,山脉,脊柱,脊梁

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a long, narrow elevation of land; a chain of hills or mountains.
    • : the long and narrow upper edge, angle, or crest of something, as a hill, wave, or vault.
    • : the back of an animal.
    • : any raised, narrow strip, as on cloth.
    • : the horizontal line in which the tops of the rafters of a roof meet.
    • : a narrow, elongated area of high pressure.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ridged, ridg·ing.

    • : to provide with or form into a ridge or ridges.
    • : to mark with or as if with ridges.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ridged, ridg·ing.

    • : to form ridges.

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Examples

  • Scientists can conclude from those tiny ridges how active someone had been.

  • I don’t know if I’d normally be hiking at eleven o’clock at night, up on some ridge, during a thunderstorm.

  • As a mountain-bike trail builder and rider, I have an intimate knowledge of the contours of the forest, of each ridge and each drainage.

  • One, which came to be known as the CZU Lightning Complex fire, was burning across the ridges and through the canyons towards Nichols’s house.

  • The traditional “river groover” is an ammo can with an airtight top, which cuts ridges in your behind if you sit on it for too long—hence the name.

  • The fundamental issue: the boundaries of the underwater Lomonosov Ridge.

  • That should immediately destroy any illusions about how “libertarian” the Liberty Ridge ruling might be.

  • This vision, in the context of the incident at Liberty Ridge, reveals a substantial weakness in our constitutional framework.

  • To dwell on that for a moment is to get a sharp taste of the overarching issue that Liberty Ridge raises for us.

  • High on the slopes of Everest, some 70 sherpas surged over a ridge to see the beating.

  • With this company he had rendered valiant service in the campaign which ended with the battle of Pea Ridge.

  • A short distance off was another ridge or spur of the mountain, widening out into almost a plateau.

  • I turned away from the bank and raced up a long slope to a saw-backed ridge that promised largely of unobstructed view.

  • It lit up every ridge and hollow for two or three seconds, and showed me four riders tearing up the slope at a high run.

  • It was kind of Josiah to come, for he is an old man and lives a full mile above the village, half way up the ridge-side.