(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.
Vista
Definition:
(n.) A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those along the Atlantic coast fear their relatively untouched vistas will be next.
(2) One response to the Isla Vista rampage is a California law, AB 1014, that allows family members and law enforcement to petition a court to remove guns from the possession of someone who may be a risk to others.
(3) Such a comprehensive treatment of TIN opens up new vistas in the prophylaxis and therapy of this illness.
(4) Over the years he has played with famous musicians including John Williams, Robert Mitchell and Jools Holland, and been asked to jam with Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist who was a member of the Buena Vista Social Club.
(5) The Nobel Laureate and ex-director of Fermilab, Leon Lederman, described superconductivity as "the elixir to rejuvenate accelerators and open new vistas to the future".
(6) Hollywood studios and TV producers have long been pleading for the right to use drones, which are seen as opening up vast new vistas for dramatic filming at relatively cheap cost.
(7) From her eighth-floor corner-flat above Jarrow town centre, Lynda Rand has a stunning river vista from North Shields to Byker.
(8) May wasn’t emeralds; it was the massacre of six people in Isla Vista , California, by a young misogynist and the birth of #YesAllWomen, perhaps the most catalytic in a year of powerful protests online about women and violence.
(9) These two pieces of knowledge about basic viral architecture appear to open new vistas for reasoned synthesis of antiviral drugs, and some promising compounds are now under investigation.
(10) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
(11) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
(12) For the best vista, request a room on a higher floor overlooking the back of the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral , or simply have a drink on the top-floor roof deck.
(13) The enormous advances in understanding brought forth by the extensive research and writings of Professor Brodal and his colleagues have expanded our horizons to avail us of an enormous range of new vistas into cerebellar functional morphology.
(14) Walk straight up the hill to Summit Avenue, which clings to the ridgeline of the Hudson Palisades, however, and the vista of the Manhattan skyline is totally brilliant, gorgeous and huge.
(15) "We are living a very important moment in Brazilian democracy, with the growth of female participation in politics and other types of power, which is a fundamental move forward to equal rights," said Teresa Surita, whose win in Boa Vista has made her the first Brazilian women to win a fourth term as mayor.
(16) Learning the state fire agency had designated their area of Meadow Vista as a high-risk area, because of the drought and a thick brush cover that could easily catch fire from a stray spark, brought those fears to life.
(17) The vistas that greet travellers are quite the opposite: Robinson Crusoe islands of swaying palms and snow-soft sand, shimmering azure waters and coral reefs teeming with tropical life.
(18) New vistas are opened by the modulation of immunological reactivity by cyclic nucleotides.
(19) The 22-year-old student killed six people and injured 13 more when he went on a gun and knife rampage in the college town of Isla Vista, southern California, and he detailed his rage and murderous plans in the 141-page document.
(20) Joana Moura, the head of the union of Roraima penal workers, told the Folha de Boa Vista newspaper that the incident was “a reflection of the lack of interest from the state government” towards the prison system.