Ridge
noun
A long narrow hilltop or mountain range.
They hiked to the top of the ridge for a better view.
Often appears as...
- mountain ridge
- ridge top
noun
A raised strip on the surface of something, usually for strength, for keeping things in position, or to add texture.
The roof of the house had clay tiles with ridges.
Often appears as...
- ridge tiles
- roof ridge
noun
The part of a roof that forms the highest point and is usually covered by special tiles named ridge tiles.
The roofer has to replace the ridge tiles.
Often appears as...
- ridge tiles
- ridge line
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noun
A continuous narrow elevated tract of seafloor at divergent plate boundaries.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, that runs down the center of the Atlantic Ocean, is the longest mountain range on earth.
Often appears as...
- oceanic ridge
- seafloor ridge
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Technical
noun
The top of a horse’s back, considered as a position for riding.
The jockey sat tight on the ridge of the horse.
Often appears as...
- riding ridge
- horse ridge
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Technical
noun
A long narrow hilltop or mountain range.
They hiked to the top of the ridge for a better view.
Often appears as...
- mountain ridge
- ridge top
noun
A raised strip on the surface of something, usually for strength, for keeping things in position, or to add texture.
The roof of the house had clay tiles with ridges.
Often appears as...
- ridge tiles
- roof ridge
noun
The part of a roof that forms the highest point and is usually covered by special tiles named ridge tiles.
The roofer has to replace the ridge tiles.
Often appears as...
- ridge tiles
- ridge line
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A continuous narrow elevated tract of seafloor at divergent plate boundaries.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, that runs down the center of the Atlantic Ocean, is the longest mountain range on earth.
Often appears as...
- oceanic ridge
- seafloor ridge
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The top of a horse’s back, considered as a position for riding.
The jockey sat tight on the ridge of the horse.
Often appears as...
- riding ridge
- horse ridge
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/2Outdoor Adventures
Use 'ridge' for describing high natural landscapes when discussing outdoor activities like hiking or sightseeing.
The trail follows the ridge, offering panoramic views.
Pro Tip 2/2Geographical Features
'Ridge' can indicate a long, narrow top of a mountain, often walked along for scenic vistas or geological study.
The ridge is often shrouded in mist, creating a mystical atmosphere.
Pro Tip 1/2Outdoor Adventures
Use 'ridge' for describing high natural landscapes when discussing outdoor activities like hiking or sightseeing.
The trail follows the ridge, offering panoramic views.
Pro Tip 2/2Geographical Features
'Ridge' can indicate a long, narrow top of a mountain, often walked along for scenic vistas or geological study.
The ridge is often shrouded in mist, creating a mystical atmosphere.
Pro Tip 1/2Outdoor Adventures
Use 'ridge' for describing high natural landscapes when discussing outdoor activities like hiking or sightseeing.
The trail follows the ridge, offering panoramic views.
Pro Tip 2/2Geographical Features
'Ridge' can indicate a long, narrow top of a mountain, often walked along for scenic vistas or geological study.
The ridge is often shrouded in mist, creating a mystical atmosphere.
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James Balog: Time-lapse...
And so, there are features on this landscape. There's a ridge right in the middle of the picture, up above where that arrow comes in, that shows you that a little bit. There's a marker line called the trim line above our little red illustration there. This is something no self-respecting photographer would ever do --
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TIL: Why Is the Ocean...
the black smokers that the entire volume of the world's oceans is going inside the earth and out every six to eight million years and it's taking some of the chemicals it gets from rivers and it's trading them for new chemicals and this is occurring all along the mid-ocean ridge that stretches around
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Beyond the edge of the...
live in hot springs on the seafloor on these mid-ocean ridges mid-ocean ridges are places where the earth is or ocean crust is spreading apart and they are volcanic systems pretty much anytime any day there's a volcanic eruption going on somewhere in the ocean in the deep water
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Climbing Islands in the...
And we needed these guys to help us to get into the base of the tower. There's no possible way that we... we could've found it. We did not anticipate that the hardest part of this trip was gonna be just getting to the base of the tower. You can see this ridge, right here?
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Life Beyond the Sun by...
intensity and glamour of your orbit and some they paid the price for it they shattered lost their lives for it grew ridges wounds their ice our drift and drawn around you slicing crisp yet perfect magic while you sit impossible
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Scientists "See" Ocean...
is continuous we can see the ups and downs the the ridges the ledges of the sea bottom and all of that is important information for our manager as well as to make the linkages between the seafloor habitats and the types of
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Volcanoes 101 PIPE National...
and mid-ocean ridges which are underwater chains of volcanic mountains no matter their shape or size all volcanoes emit gas and molten rock the journey of these emissions begins deep underground in the earth's core
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Your fingerprints reveal...
so let's ask the software to visualize those unique molecules just present in one fingermark and not in the other one. By doing so, that's how we can separate the two ridge patterns. And this is really important
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How big is the ocean? -...
It also happens to hold the greatest geological features of our planet. Quickly, here are four of the most notable. The ocean contains the world's largest mountain range, the mid-ocean ridge.
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Earthquakes 101 PIPE...
the world they've been recorded on all seven continents but most quakes take place in just three regions the mid-atlantic ridge an underwater line
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James Balog: Time-lapse...
And so, there are features on this landscape. There's a ridge right in the middle of the picture, up above where that arrow comes in, that shows you that a little bit. There's a marker line called the trim line above our little red illustration there. This is something no self-respecting photographer would ever do --
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TIL: Why Is the Ocean...
the black smokers that the entire volume of the world's oceans is going inside the earth and out every six to eight million years and it's taking some of the chemicals it gets from rivers and it's trading them for new chemicals and this is occurring all along the mid-ocean ridge that stretches around
Video examples
Beyond the edge of the...
live in hot springs on the seafloor on these mid-ocean ridges mid-ocean ridges are places where the earth is or ocean crust is spreading apart and they are volcanic systems pretty much anytime any day there's a volcanic eruption going on somewhere in the ocean in the deep water
Video examples
Climbing Islands in the...
And we needed these guys to help us to get into the base of the tower. There's no possible way that we... we could've found it. We did not anticipate that the hardest part of this trip was gonna be just getting to the base of the tower. You can see this ridge, right here?
Video examples
Life Beyond the Sun by...
intensity and glamour of your orbit and some they paid the price for it they shattered lost their lives for it grew ridges wounds their ice our drift and drawn around you slicing crisp yet perfect magic while you sit impossible
Video examples
Scientists "See" Ocean...
is continuous we can see the ups and downs the the ridges the ledges of the sea bottom and all of that is important information for our manager as well as to make the linkages between the seafloor habitats and the types of
Video examples
Volcanoes 101 PIPE National...
and mid-ocean ridges which are underwater chains of volcanic mountains no matter their shape or size all volcanoes emit gas and molten rock the journey of these emissions begins deep underground in the earth's core
Video examples
Your fingerprints reveal...
so let's ask the software to visualize those unique molecules just present in one fingermark and not in the other one. By doing so, that's how we can separate the two ridge patterns. And this is really important
Video examples
How big is the ocean? -...
It also happens to hold the greatest geological features of our planet. Quickly, here are four of the most notable. The ocean contains the world's largest mountain range, the mid-ocean ridge.
Video examples
Earthquakes 101 PIPE...
the world they've been recorded on all seven continents but most quakes take place in just three regions the mid-atlantic ridge an underwater line
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Adrienne Bailon
American Musician
Zara right now has incredible jeans. I'm obsessed. They have these jeans that have those ridges on the knees. I swear they have a little bit of stretch to them, so they hug everything in the right places. They've got great boyfriend jeans that are torn up, and you can cuff them.
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Yvette Nicole Brown
American Actress
I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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James Tupper
Canadian Actor
I was working on this bedroom, and from where I was, in the beating hot sun, I could see Madonna's castle on the next ridge over. It was hilarious - there I was, this Maritime carpenter, staring at Madonna's castle. So it's been a windy road.
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G. Willow Wilson
American Writer
We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
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Rosecrans Baldwin
American Novelist
My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.
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Daniel Boone
American Explorer
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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Edmund Hillary
New Zealander Explorer
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian Explorer
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
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Chris Eubank Sr.
British Athlete
I want to jump into rivers off of high ridges when I'm 75.
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Hudson Stuck
English Explorer
We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.
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Adrienne Bailon
American Musician
Zara right now has incredible jeans. I'm obsessed. They have these jeans that have those ridges on the knees. I swear they have a little bit of stretch to them, so they hug everything in the right places. They've got great boyfriend jeans that are torn up, and you can cuff them.
Quote examples
Yvette Nicole Brown
American Actress
I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
Quote examples
James Tupper
Canadian Actor
I was working on this bedroom, and from where I was, in the beating hot sun, I could see Madonna's castle on the next ridge over. It was hilarious - there I was, this Maritime carpenter, staring at Madonna's castle. So it's been a windy road.
Quote examples
G. Willow Wilson
American Writer
We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.
Quote examples
Rosecrans Baldwin
American Novelist
My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.
Quote examples
Daniel Boone
American Explorer
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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Edmund Hillary
New Zealander Explorer
The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
Quote examples
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian Explorer
Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.
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Chris Eubank Sr.
British Athlete
I want to jump into rivers off of high ridges when I'm 75.
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Hudson Stuck
English Explorer
We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.
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