ridge vs swale

ridge

noun
  • A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To form into a ridge 

  • To extend in ridges 

swale

noun
  • A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. 

  • Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil. 

  • A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop. 

  • A gutter in a candle. 

  • A low tract of moist or marshy land. 

  • A shallow troughlike depression that's created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. 

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