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ridge
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)
- (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 […]
- 1663–1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part III, canto I, pages 91–92:
- Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- Antonym: groove
- The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
- (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
- 1853-1855, Joachim Hayward Stocqueler , The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington
- 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.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, [Act I, scene i], lines 62–66:
- A chain of hills.
- (oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- (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)
- (transitive) To form into a ridge
- (intransitive) To extend in ridges
Related terms
- Rhodesian Ridgeback
See also
- crest
Anagrams
- derig, dirge, gride, redig
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gurus
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???.?u?z/, /??u?.?u?z/
- (US) IPA(key): /???.?uz/, /????uz/, /??u?.?u?z/, /?u???u?z/, /???.??z/, /?????z/
Noun
gurus
- plural of guru
French
Noun
gurus m
- plural of guru
Latin
Etymology
From Hindi ???? (gur?) / Urdu ???? (guru), from Sanskrit ???? (gurú, “venerable, respectable”), originally "heavy" and in this sense cognate to English grieve. (A traditional etymology based on the Advaya Taraka Upanishad (line 16) describes the syllables gu as 'darkness' and ru as 'destroyer', thus meaning "one who destroys/dispels darkness")
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /??u?.rus/, [??u???s?] or IPA(key): /??u.rus/, [?????s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /??u.rus/, [??u??us]
Noun
g??rus m (genitive g??r?s); fourth declension
- guru
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
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