Groove vs. Ridge

Groovenoun

A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.

Groovenoun

A fixed routine.

Groovenoun

The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.

Groovenoun

A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.

Groovenoun

(mining) A shaft or excavation.

Grooveverb

(transitive) To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

Grooveverb

(intransitive) To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music.

Groovenoun

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a depressed way; a worn path; a rut.

Groovenoun

Hence: The habitual course of life, work, or affairs; fixed routine.

Groovenoun

A shaft or excavation.

Grooveverb

To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

Groovenoun

a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

Groovenoun

a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape;

Groovenoun

(anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

Grooveverb

make a groove in, or provide with a groove;

Grooveverb

hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove;

Ridgenoun

(anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.

Ridgenoun

Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

Ridgenoun

The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

Ridgenoun

The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.

Ridgenoun

(fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

Ridgenoun

A chain of mountains.

Ridgenoun

A chain of hills.

Ridgenoun

A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.

Ridgenoun

(meteorology) A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.

Ridgeverb

(transitive) To form into a ridge

Ridgeverb

(intransitive) To extend in ridges

Ridgenoun

The back, or top of the back; a crest.

Ridgenoun

A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.

Ridgenoun

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.

Ridgenoun

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.

Ridgenoun

The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.

Ridgeverb

To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.

Ridgeverb

To form into ridges with the plow, as land.

Ridgeverb

To wrinkle.

Ridgenoun

a long narrow natural elevation or striation

Ridgenoun

any long raised strip

Ridgenoun

a long narrow range of hills

Ridgenoun

any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane

Ridgenoun

a beam laid along the ridge of a roof; provides attachment for upper end of rafters

Ridgeverb

extend in ridges;

Ridgeverb

plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip

Ridgeverb

throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides;

Ridgeverb

spade into alternate ridges and troughs;

Ridgeverb

form into a ridge

Ridgenoun

a long, narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed

Ridgenoun

the line or edge formed where the two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top

Ridgenoun

a narrow raised band on a surface

Ridgenoun

a raised strip of arable land, especially (in medieval fields) one of a set separated by furrows

Ridgenoun

an elongated region of high barometric pressure

Ridgeverb

mark with or form into ridges

Ridgeverb

(of a surface) form into or rise up as a ridge

Ridge

A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for some distance. The sides of the ridge slope away from narrow top on either side.