Synonyms of the word

ridge

• n. (anatomy) The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
• n. Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
• n. The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
• n. The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running…
• n. (fortifications) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
• n. A chain of mountains.
• n. A chain of hills.
• n. A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
• n. (meteorology) A type of warm air that comes down on to land from mountains.
• v. (transitive) To form into a ridge.
• v. (intransitive) To extend in ridges.

appendage

• n. an external body part that projects from the body.
• n. a natural prolongation or projection from a part of any organism.
• n. a part that is joined to something larger.

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

continue

• v. (transitive) To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
• v. (transitive) To make last; to prolong.
• v. (transitive) To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position etc.
• v. (intransitive) To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
• v. (intransitive) To resume.
• v. (transitive, law) To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
• v. (poker slang) To make a continuation bet.
• n. (video games) an option allowing a gamer to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost.
• n. (programming) a statement which causes a loop to start executing the next iteration, skipping the statements…

convexity

• n. The state of being convex.
• n. A convex line or surface.
• n. A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.

cover

• n. A lid.
• n. A hiding from view.
• n. A front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
• n. A top sheet of a bed.
• n. A cover charge.
• n. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
• n. (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
• n. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square;…
• n. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
• n. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
• n. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
• n. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods…
• n. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
• n. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story.
• n. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
• n. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
• adj. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
• adj. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
• v. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
• v. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
• v. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
• v. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
• v. To deal with.
• v. To be enough money for.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
• v. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
• v. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
• v. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect…
• v. To provide insurance coverage for.
• v. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
• v. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
• v. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.

elevation

• n. The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons,…
• n. The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
• n. That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
• n. The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between…
• n. The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
• n. The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle…
• n. (architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the…
• n. (Christianity) The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

extend

• v. (intransitive) To increase in extent.
• v. (intransitive) To possess a certain extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
• v. (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
• v. (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
• v. To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
• v. To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
• v. (Britain, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ…
• v. (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype…

form

• n. (heading, physical) To do with shape.
• n. (social) To do with structure or procedure.
• n. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
• n. Level of performance.
• n. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape…
• n. The den or home of a hare.
• n. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
• n. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
• n. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured…
• n. (geometry) A quantic.
• n. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
• v. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
• v. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
• v. (intransitive) To take shape.
• v. To put together or bring into being; assemble.
• v. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
• v. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
• v. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
• v. To provide (a hare) with a form.
• v. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage…

formation

• n. Something possessing structure or form.
• n. The act of assembling a group or structure.
• n. (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
• n. (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division,…
• n. (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon…
• n. (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
• n. The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
• n. The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics.

outgrowth

• n. Anything that grows out of something else.

plough

• n. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
• n. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) Synonym of Ursa…
• n. Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.
• n. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
• n. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
• v. (transitive) To use a plough on to prepare for planting.
• v. (intransitive) To use a plough.
• v. (transitive, vulgar) To have sex with.
• v. To move with force.
• v. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
• v. (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
• v. (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
• v. (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove…

plow

• n. (US) Alternative spelling of plough.
• v. (US) Alternative spelling of plough.

process

• n. A series of events which produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
• n. (manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical…
• n. A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
• n. (anatomy) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
• n. (law) Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate,…
• n. (biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
• n. (anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
• n. (computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
• v. (transitive) To perform a particular process.
• v. (transitive) To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept…
• v. To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer…
• v. (chiefly Britain) To walk in a procession.

ridgeline

• n. The topmost edge along a mountain ridge.

ridgepole

• n. A beam along the ridge of a roof to which the rafters are attached.
• n. A horizontal pole that supports the roof of a ridge tent.

rooftree

• n. The primary beam of a roof, ridgepole; hence, the roof.
• n. (figuratively) A home; household.

shape

• n. The status or condition of something.
• n. Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
• n. The appearance of something, especially its outline.
• n. Form; formation.
• n. (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section…
• n. (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely…
• n. (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded…
• n. (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a…
• v. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
• v. (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
• v. To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
• v. (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
• v. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
• v. (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.

spade

• n. A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used…
• n. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
• n. (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
• n. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
• v. To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
• n. A hart or stag three years old.
• n. A castrated man or animal.

throw

• v. (obsolete, Scotland, Northern England) To twist or turn.
• v. (transitive) To hurl; to cause an object to move rapidly through the air.
• v. (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
• v. (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
• v. (ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
• v. (transitive, cricket) Of a bowler, to deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during…
• v. (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal…
• v. (sports) To intentionally lose a game.
• v. (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
• v. (figuratively) To send desperately.
• v. (transitive) To imprison.
• v. To organize an event, especially a party.
• v. To roll (a die or dice).
• v. (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To discard.
• v. (martial arts) To lift the opponent off the ground and bring him back down, especially into a position…
• v. (transitive) To subject someone to verbally.
• v. (transitive, said of one's voice) To change in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone…
• v. (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
• v. (transitive) To project or send forth.
• v. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
• v. To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles,…
• v. (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role…
• n. The flight of a thrown object.
• n. The act of throwing something.
• n. One's ability to throw.
• n. A distance travelled; displacement; as, the throw of the piston.
• n. A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
• n. A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
• n. Pain, especially pain associated with childbirth; throe.
• n. (veterinary) The act of giving birth in animals, especially in cows.
• v. (transitive, said of animals) To give birth to.
• n. (obsolete) A moment, time, occasion.
• n. (obsolete) A period of time; a while.
• n. Misspelling of throe.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.