Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“ridges” is a form of

ridge

/ɹɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms ridges ridging ridged rig

  1. noun (anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
  2. noun Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. “The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.”
  3. noun The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground. “mountain ridge”
  4. noun The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
  5. noun (fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
  6. noun A chain of mountains.
  7. noun A chain of hills.
  8. noun (oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
  9. verb (transitive) To form into a ridge.
  10. verb (intransitive) To extend in ridges.
  11. proper noun A village in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
  12. proper noun A toponymic surname from Middle English, named after the natural feature.
  13. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.

Synonyms

ridgeline ridgepole rooftree

Antonyms

groove trough

Etymology

From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(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”).

From ridge. Originating from Middle English.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The back, or top of the back; a crest. Hudibras.
  2. noun A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys. "The frozen ridges of the Alps." Shak.
  3. verb To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
  4. verb To form into ridges with the plow, as land.

Etymology [OE. rigge the back, AS. hrycg; akin to D. rug, G. rÜcken, OHG. rucki, hrukki, Icel. hryggr, Sw. rugg, Dan. ryg. sq. root16.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “ridge”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “ridge” (best matches first).

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