MOVING RIDGE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

One of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)

Synonyms:

moving ridge; wave

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("moving ridge" is a kind of...):

motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "moving ridge"):

breaker; breakers; surf (waves breaking on the shore)

backwash; wake (the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward)

swash (the movement or sound of water)

riffle; ripple; rippling; wavelet (a small wave on the surface of a liquid)

crestless wave; swell (the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea)

lift; rise (a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground)

billow; surge (a large sea wave)

tidal wave (a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun)

tidal wave (an unusual (and often destructive) rise of water along the seashore caused by a storm or a combination of wind and high tide)

tsunami (a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption)

roll; roller; rolling wave (a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore)

comber (a long curling sea wave)

white horse; whitecap (a wave that is blown by the wind so its crest is broken and appears white)