ridge

ridge is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The back, or top of the back; a crest. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The back, or top of the back; a crest.
2. noun. A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
3. noun. A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.
4. noun. The intersection of two surface forming a salient angle, especially the angle at the top between the opposite slopes or sides of a roof or a vault.
5. noun. The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
6. transitive verb. To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
7. transitive verb. To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
8. transitive verb. To wrinkle.
9. noun. a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters

   Synonyms: ridgepole, rooftree

10. noun. any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane
11. noun. a long narrow natural elevation or striation
12. noun. a long narrow range of hills

    Synonyms: ridgeline

13. noun. a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean
14. noun. any long raised strip
15. verb. form into a ridge
16. verb. spade into alternate ridges and troughs

    "ridge the soil"

17. verb. throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides

    "He ridged his corn"

18. verb. plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip
19. verb. extend in ridges

    "The land ridges towards the South"

Synonyms

ridgepole, rooftree, ridgeline

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ridge:

dirge, gride, redig

Common word forms

ridged, ridger, ridges, ridging

Words from these letters

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