English Dictionary

ridge

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹɪdʒ/

名詞

(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. / Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

日本語の意味

（解剖学）動物の背部、特に四足動物の上部や突出した部分 / （一般）長く突出している部分、尾根、隆起した線や帯状の部分

The veterinarian examined the ridge of the horse for signs of injury.

獣医は馬の背中を調べて、けがの兆候がないか確認した。

意味（1）

(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.

He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid[…]

意味（2）

Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.

意味（3）

The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

mountain ridge

意味（4）

The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.

Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.

意味（5）

(fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights

意味（6）

A chain of mountains.

[…]Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote.

意味（7）

A chain of hills.

意味（8）

(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.

意味（9）

(meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.

ridges （ plural ）