RIDGE

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Traducere în limba română

ridge I. substantiv

1. creastă, coamă (de munte); culme (a unei ridicături);

the ridge of the back şira spinării;

the ridge of the nose creasta nasului.

2. lanţ, şir (de dealuri).

3. movilă.

4. (hort.) strat.

5. creţ, cută (pe o suprafaţă).

ridge II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. (despre suprafaţa apei, a nisipului etc.) a se încreţi.

2. (despre o stâncă etc.) a se stria.

3. to ridge up a face cute.

ridge II. verb B. tranzitiv

1. (constr.) a aşeza culmile la (un acoperiş de ţiglă, etc.).

2. (hort.) a aşeza (pământul) în straturi.

3. a aşeza (plante etc.) în straturi.

4. a încreţi (o suprafaţă).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Scientists' best access to the mantle comes in the form of lava that erupts at mid-ocean ridges.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

Somewhere, looking out from the shadow, I seemed to see the high lights of the Count's evil face, the ridge of the nose, the red eyes, the red lips, the awful pallor.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations; a creature who could exist in the ice-caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices was a being possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The forehead is broad and fine, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart; such a forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly tumble over it, but falls naturally back and to the sides.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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