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# ridge

«ridge» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A long, narrow, high strip of land along the top of hills…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a ridge, ridges)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long, narrow, high strip of land along the top of hills or mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#m1)

2) A raised line on a surface: the ridges on a coin's edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#m2)

3) The top edge where two sloping parts of a roof meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#m3)

4) (weather) A long area of high air pressure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Psalm it means the raised strip of plowed ground between furrows, which God waters with rain. Interpretation: Tradition reads this psalm as praise for God who sends rain and gives the harvest. In the primary lessons: In geography lessons, mountain ridges and ridge walks. In science, fingerprints have ridges. In everyday life, ridges on a crisp or a coin. Phrases: mountain ridge, ridge of high pressure.

### examples

- Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof. (Writings PSA.65.11, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#x1)
- We walked along the ridge and saw both valleys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#x2)
- The roof's ridge was covered in moss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#x3)
- Your fingerprints have tiny ridges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#x4)
- Ridged crisps hold more dip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#x5)
- A ridge of high pressure brought sunshine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#x6)
- The coin has ridges round its edge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#x7)
- Once they wandered a long way into the forest, and even ventured together to climb the high ridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/#x8)

### note

Countable. Adjective: ridged. Sounds like «fridge» without f.

### In the corpora

- [Watering her ridges abundantly, settling down the furrows thereof, Thou makest her soft with showers; Thou blessest the growth thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1053/)
- [A spider monkey's tail grips a branch like a fifth hand, with ridged bare skin on the tip like a fingerprint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/12/)
- [The ridges form before birth, shaped by how the baby's skin grows and moves in the womb.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/6/)
- [Where plates move apart, magma rises to fill the gap and makes new crust, as along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/42-plate-tectonics/8/)
- [Most volcanic activity happens unseen on the ocean floor, along the mid-ocean ridges where new crust is made.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/46-volcanoes-how-and-where/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ridge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/R/ridge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.