crescendo vs ridge

crescendo

verb
  • To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo. 

adv
  • Gradually increasing in force or loudness. 

noun
  • An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin. 

  • A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax. 

  • The climax of a gradual increase. 

ridge

verb
  • To form into a ridge 

  • To extend in ridges 

noun
  • A chain of hills. 

  • A chain of mountains. 

  • The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped. 

  • Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip. 

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

  • A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom. 

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

  • An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure. 

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

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