different between node vs ridge

English

Etymology

From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin n?dus. Doublet of knot and nodus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??d

Noun

node (plural nodes)

1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
2. (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ? and ?.
3. (botany) A leaf node.
4. (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
5. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
6. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
7. (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
9. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
10. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
11. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
12. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
13. (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
15. (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

Synonyms

• (computer networking): host
• (graph theory): vertex

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: nód

Translations

See also

• neurode

References

• node on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Deno, Deon, Done, Endo, done, endo, endo-, oden, onde, oned

Danish

Noun

node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)

1. (music) note

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

node

1. (archaic) Dative singular form of nood

Japanese

Romanization

node

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Noun

n?de

1. vocative singular of n?dus

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?dus. Doublet of knotte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??d(?)/

Noun

node (plural nodez)

1. (medicine, Late Middle English) lump, swelling
2. (rare, Late Middle English) knot, tie

Descendants

• English: node
  • ? Irish: nód

References

• “n?de, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin nodus (“knot”). Akin to English node.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²nu?.d?/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)

1. a node

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hnoða.

Alternative forms

• noda

Noun

node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)

1. Synonym of nyste

Etymology 3

Verb

node (present tense noder, past tense nodde, past participle nodd/nodt, passive infinitive nodast, present participle nodande, imperative nod)

1. Synonym of neia

References

• “node” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• rig (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hry?? (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreuk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: r?j, IPA^(key): /??d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Noun

ridge (plural ridges)

1. (anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
   • 1663–1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part III, canto I, pages 91–92:

     He though it was no time to ?tay, / And let the Night too ?teal 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 ?traid […]

2. Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

   Antonym: groove

3. The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
4. The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
5. (fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
   • 1853-1855, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler , The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington

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

6. A chain of mountains.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, [Act I, scene i], lines 62–66:

     […] 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 Engli?hman dur?t ?et his foote.

7. A chain of hills.
8. (oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
9. (meteorology) An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
   • Antonym: trough

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

ridge (third-person singular simple present ridges, present participle ridging, simple past and past participle ridged)

1. (transitive) To form into a ridge
2. (intransitive) To extend in ridges

Related terms

• Rhodesian Ridgeback

See also

• crest

Anagrams

• derig, dirge, gride, redig