noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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Despite a decent map it had become obvious that we were approaching the high ridge of the mountains.
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The high ridge displaces ocean water.
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The cottage is set on the highest ridge of the Chiltern Hills and is surrounded by the most glorious countryside.
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You can see the trees up on the high ridges from their front porch.
long
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Cloud swirled up from the valleys, clearing spasmodically to reveal distant peaks, ice-cold lakes and the long ridge in front.
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From Lose Hill, after descending the long southeastern ridge , the walker has a choice.
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They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window.
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Starting early, I traverse the long ridge of hills that separates me from Isafjördur, arriving late in the afternoon.
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Turn left along this lane; a signpost points the way to Norber, a long limestone ridge forming the north-western skyline.
low
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The Trust owned nearly a hundred acres, most of it along a low wooded ridge .
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As the driver spoke they crested a low ridge .
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Narrow paved streets that are little more than alleys wind informally round a low ridge once densely packed with houses.
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Go left over a low ridge and downhill.
narrow
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Handfast Point was joined to the cliff by a narrow ridge at this time.
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They are linked by a narrow ridge which dips in the middle to a saddle.
■ NOUN
mountain
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I flew with her into the bush, to land on a tiny crushed-pumice airstrip laid along a mountain ridge .
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Steep, inclined tracks helped get it over the mountain ridges .
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The highest of the mountain ridges separated the headwaters of the Belpan and Makaa.
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For agonizing seconds the Boeing 757 tried to climb, almost clearing a mountain ridge .
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The trees and mountain ridges have a magnificent stark beauty.
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They know, for example, that plumes in the atmosphere form most commonly over mountain ridges .
summit
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On the summit ridges Racomitrium is often confined to the lee side of boulders.
walk
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Everyone will have their favourite ridge walk , and that's one of mine.
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Contact. 19 Three hour ridge walk in Nottinghamshire to Bramcote and Stapleford.
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Main pic: classic ridge walk links Bostg and Piz las Palas.
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The ridge walks are said to be second only to those of the Cuillin in Skye in terms of drama and scenery.
■ VERB
climb
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By this time we were climbing towards a ridge .
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They drove all night to climb the ridge .
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The moon becomes ever brighter as the sky darkens, and it climbs above the ridge .
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We climbed around on the ridge overlooking the canyon.
follow
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Here join path which follows ridge and turn left.
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Those Veins which follow the ridges are termed convex veins and those which follow the furrows concave veins.
form
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It formed a ridge called a terminal moraine.
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But beneath the oceans the layer of crust has only recently been formed by the mid-ocean ridge and then dusted with sediment.
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Beyond, the huge sea cliffs of the northern edge of Heimæy form a sharp ridge that offers an airy walk.
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Basalts are the rocks which are formed at mid-ocean ridges , and which make up the entire oceanic crust.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cycles of freezing and thawing caused an ice ridge to build up.
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My fingers traced the ridges and folds of his hand.
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The sun disappeared behind the ridge .
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They came out onto a sand ridge that curved away toward the rocks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A helicopter shot across the ridges overhead and disappeared into the adjoining canyon.
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Dove would not move his eyes off the ridge of white wash.
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From the ridge , the light seemed to cover all the slope below, drowsy and still.
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He lives in that house that Daddy designed, up on the ridge , on Jellison Road.
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Over to the right is rough dune land, a big area before you top a ridge of shingle.
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Rotting guavas and fruit flies that hover around them are also prevalent on the ridge route.
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Stephen looked down at the ridge of grass along the centre of the track where the cart wheels had not pressed.