LEDGE Synonyms

• sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)

• a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities

• a long ridge or pile

• an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers

• a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)

• the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games

• a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force

• a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home

• a building in which the business of banking is transacted

• a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)

• tip laterally

• enclose with a bank

• do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank

• act as the banker in a game or in gambling

• be in the banking business

• put into a bank account

• cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning

• have faith or confidence in

• the top edge of a vessel or other container

• a circular projection that sticks outward from the crown of a hat

• be completely full

• fill as much as possible

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• swell or protrude outwards

• bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge

• bulge outward

• cause to bulge or swell outwards

• a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing

• a molding at the corner between the ceiling and the top of a wall

• the topmost projecting part of an entablature

• furnish with a cornice

• the boundary of a surface

• a line determining the limits of an area

• a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object

• the attribute of urgency in tone of voice

• a slight competitive advantage

• the outside limit of an object or area or surface; a place farthest away from the center of something

• advance slowly, as if by inches

• provide with a border or edge

• lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

• provide with an edge

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• the act of projecting out from something

• extend out or project in space

• the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface of the surrounding land

• appear on the surface, come to the surface on the ground

• projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else

• project over

• be suspended over or hang over

• a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

• the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

• a planned undertaking

• any structure that branches out from a central support

• any solid convex shape that juts out from something

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

• the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality

• the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

• the act of projecting out from something

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent

• relative importance or fame

• something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

• a long narrow natural elevation or striation

• any long raised strip

• a long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean

• a long narrow range of hills

• any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane

• a beam laid along the edge where two sloping sides of a roof meet at the top; provides an attachment for the upper ends of rafters

• extend in ridges

• plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip

• throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides

• spade into alternate ridges and troughs

• form into a ridge

• the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object

• (basketball) the hoop from which the net is suspended

• the outer part of a wheel to which the tire is attached

• a projection used for strength or for attaching to another object

• the top edge of a vessel or other container

• run around the rim of

• furnish with a rim

• roll around the rim of

• structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure

• (geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock

• any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal

• the distance covered by a step

• the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down

• support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway

• relative position in a graded series

• a short distance

• the sound of a step of someone walking

• a musical interval of two semitones

• a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface

• a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed

• a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance

• shift or move by taking a step

• put down or press the foot, place the foot

• cause (a computer) to execute a single command

• treat badly

• furnish with steps

• move with one's feet in a specific manner

• walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner

• place (a ship's mast) in its step

• measure (distances) by pacing

• move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation

• the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities

• aiding the cause or policy or interests of

• something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest

• a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission

• documentary validation

• the financial means whereby one lives

• supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation

• the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

• a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts

• any device that bears the weight of another thing

• financial resources provided to make some project possible

• give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to

• support materially or financially

• be behind; approve of

• be the physical support of; carry the weight of

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• adopt as a belief

• support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

• argue or speak in defense of

• play a subordinate role to (another performer)

• be a regular customer or client of

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant