Used in a Sentence

ridge

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ridge.

Editorial note

All Type C connectors in Intel computers will support everything that the Type C currently supports, as the support is built in to the Alpine Ridge chipset.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ridge gathered in one view.

noun

Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

noun

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

noun

A chain of mountains.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ridge.

noun

Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

noun

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

Example sentences

1

All Type C connectors in Intel computers will support everything that the Type C currently supports, as the support is built in to the Alpine Ridge chipset.

2

Among other things, my approach is the reverse to this, namely decimating a full detail mesh using edge/ridge detection.

3

The status quo is an attempt to walk a knife-edge ridge with cliffs on both sides.

4

Fifteen years ago, even in the wake of Ruby Ridge and Waco, I might've been tempted to agree with you.

5

Or the faith that they'd be able to develop a good enough membrane for the Oak Ridge gaseous diffusion plant (high pressure + fiercely corrosive UF6).

6

Oak Ridge is working in tandem with a Canadian company to build a Molten Salt Reactor [1], and China is trying to build them as well.

7

I looked her up online, she went to medical school in Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, then school on the side.

8

> There is a sloping rib of a ridge there, a relatively unremarkable feature called Lost Brother.

9

Almost 84% of the Manhattan Project funding went to the industrial production at Oak Ridge and Hanford--more than 80% of all funding went just to producing fissionable material.

10

So my first major gig was a startup called Telemed located first in Park Ridge then in Chicago, in an office building at the end of runway 27 L.

11

I was a research intern at Oak Ridge National Lab.

12

Let's say this fancy new satellite/3d whiz-bang map you're using to get a grid coordinate for the ridge full of bad guys happens to be off by just 100m, the bombs drop, miss the ridge line and sail onto the peaceful village in the valley floor below.

Quote examples

1

The most impact on the cascades are changes in the Pacific currents, for a while those currents have facilitated the existence of the "Ridiculously Resilient Ridge"[1] as water temperature differentials drive changes in pressure zones above them.

2

Too much seems too different about those two to be meaningful; I could point to the strict gun laws in most of the western nations and ask, "why haven't they degenerated into `could get too bad'?" About the "whole lot of history since Ruby Ridge and Waco," well, I don't see any specific pattern of things getting "too bad".

Proper noun examples

1

Olympic National Park /Hurricane Ridge, Moss Forest, Mt Saint Helens, the coastal drive around Portland and Seattle are excellent.

2

I sat next to J once at a Denny's in either Aurora (Fox Valley Mall) or in Burr Ridge.

3

Ridge Racer was such a great game and always felt so smooth to me and now I know why.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ridge in a sentence?

All Type C connectors in Intel computers will support everything that the Type C currently supports, as the support is built in to the Alpine Ridge chipset.

What does ridge mean?

Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

What part of speech is ridge?

ridge is commonly used as noun.