(n.) A range of hills or mountains, or the upper part of such a range; any extended elevation between valleys.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
(v. t.) To form a ridge of; to furnish with a ridge or ridges; to make into a ridge or ridges.
(v. t.) To form into ridges with the plow, as land.
(v. t.) To wrinkle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The invaginations were classified into four easily recognized types: regular, chunky, filigree, and ridge (present only in axon hillock regions).
(2) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
(3) After 1 day in vitro the explants were partly encircled by epithelium which had proliferated from the cut edges of the explant and from rete ridges near the cut edge (epiboly).
(4) We have now found that these cells, cultured as a monolayer, are able to undergo rapid morphogenesis forming ridges and balls around collagen fibres, when soluble collagen type I is added to the medium.
(5) Besides the rough, wrinkled, and brown or black surface of the fingertips, microwrinkles of the epidermis occur on the skin ridges, which have so far not been described.
(6) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(7) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
(8) The calculations revealed that local hypoxia and lipoprotein accumulation may occur at the ridges, leading to subsequent intimal thickening and ridge growth.
(9) The quality of the alveolar ridge and the denture as well as the functional status of the craniomandibular system were evaluated in detail.
(10) The use of an intraoral alveolar ridge soft tissue expander to aid in reconstruction of the alveolar ridge is described, and the results in five cases are reported.
(11) Sixty-three per cent of the implants were operated in immediately after tooth extraction, whereas the rest were installed in a healed bony alveolar ridge.
(12) After the treatment in toto of the embryos from various species of Anura by cAMP, the number of primordial germ cells (PGC) in genital ridges is strongly reduced; the most part of the PGC are found in the endoderm.
(13) The innervation to the rete ridge is uniquely absent in the rabbit.
(14) The atrial complex was a common chamber with an attempt at division into two parts by a circular ridge of tissue; the ventricular complex was formed by three chambers which were all communicating between each other in the superior margin of their muscular interventricular septum.
(15) The other main sites of expression are the genital ridge, fetal gonad and mesothelium.
(16) Cells with demarcated borders showed rearrangement of microvilli into globular chains or ridges which lined up with the branching membrane.
(17) With the mobilization of the two halves of the face it is possible to approximate the orbits, simultaneously elongating the center of the face and normalizing the maxillary alveolar ridge.
(18) The air pressure in the skin cup was continually adjusted (using an electromechanical servo-control system) to pull the skin upward and to hold it perfectly flat across the upper ridge of the Teflon cylinder.
(19) Clinical findings as well as fingerprint ridge counts were typical of the syndrome.
(20) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.
Sandbank
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I think, and many other scientists think, it could be quite an important meeting point for seals coming from mainland Europe because it’s one of most eastern sandbanks of its type.
(2) Accommodation also available from £45 per person, based on four sharing Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset If you can be tempted to leave the spotless sands of Dorset's swankiest peninsula, there's plenty to do in the water.
(3) MH370 search: 'rogue pilot' theory still on Australian investigators' radar Read more The US television network NBC said the debris was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel, between the African mainland and Madagascar.
(4) It is one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil, and backed by Atlantic rainforest, with dunes, sandbanks, a lake and rocky coastline.
(5) A giant pump is working day and night, reclaiming land from the sandbanks and river beds, expanding the city in defiance of nature.
(6) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
(7) Malaysia’s transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, has warned against “undue speculation” about the earlier find, a metre-long piece of metal discovered on the Paluma sandbank in the channel between the African mainland and Madagascar last weekend, but said there was a “high possibility” it came from a Boeing 777.
(8) The aerial survey enabled researchers to count seals on the outer sandbanks of the estuary where colonies of up to 120 seals were recorded in remote and undisturbed spots away from people and boats.
(9) The survey was timed to coincide with the annual seal moult, when harbour seals shuffle onto sandbanks to shed their coats and grow a new layer in time for the winter, making them easier to spot.
(10) The sandbank was several miles from Hest Bank, where the group were reported missing.
(11) Beans (adults £10, kids £5), a family business, has been running trips to the sandbanks at the far end of the harbour for more than 50 years.
(12) Steve Barratt, chairman of the Mudeford Sandbank Beach Hut Association, said: "Back in the 1980s, the beach huts would have sold for around £6,000 to £7,000.
(13) ZSL’s spotters take advantage of the seals’ moulting season in August, when they shuffle up sandbanks to shed their coat and grow a new one, making double-counting less likely.
(14) We wouldn’t want to see dredging in the pupping [breeding] times.” A petition has attracted nearly 10,000 signatures and last month actor Mark Rylance backed a campaign against the dredging of the sandbanks , which have been proposed for designation as a marine conservation zone .
(15) The portfolio includes more than 1,300 UK residential properties and assets such as a Sunningdale home famous for once entertaining the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and a £2m house located in Sandbanks, Dorset.
(16) The actor Mark Rylance has lent his support to a campaign to stop the dredging of a stretch of sandbanks off the Kent coast.
(17) Close to Ramsgate, these common seals are unfazed by daytrippers cruising by on boats, while those out at more remote sandbanks would take flight if humans approached.
(18) I would urge people for their safety to refrain from entering the sea.” Further west, the weather halted efforts to move the huge car carrier Hoegh Osaka – which was beached on a sandbank near Southampton last week with 1,500 cars on board – away from the busy shipping lane.
(19) Though Culatra's only a mile or so offshore, we sail the long way over to avoid sandbanks and shrimp nets.
(20) Several are under investigation or awaiting pickup by authorities, but one – a horizontal stabiliser, stencilled with the words “NO STEP” , which Gibson found on a sandbank in Mozambique in late February – is almost certainly from MH370.