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Wedge
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering. countable, uncountable
"Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut."
- 2 The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos. UK
"The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics."
- 3 a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object wordnet
- 4 A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. countable, uncountable
"Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?"
- 5 something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them wordnet
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- 6 Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things. countable, figuratively, uncountable
"It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper."
- 7 (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole wordnet
- 8 A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. countable, uncountable
- 9 a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe wordnet
- 10 A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault. countable, uncountable
- 11 a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation wordnet
- 12 A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation. archaic, countable, uncountable
- 13 a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States wordnet
- 14 A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation. collective, countable, uncountable
- 15 any shape that is triangular in cross section wordnet
- 16 A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories. countable, uncountable
- 17 One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes. countable, uncountable
"She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century."
- 18 An ingot. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans."
- 19 Silver or items made of silver collectively. broadly, obsolete, slang, uncountable
- 20 A quantity of money. British, broadly, colloquial, countable, uncountable
"He's got some decent wedge."
- 21 A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll. US, countable, regional, uncountable
"I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli."
- 22 One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus. countable, uncountable
- 23 Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.; A háček. US, countable, uncountable
"The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček."
- 24 Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.; The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel. countable, uncountable
"Turned V is referred to as “Wedge” by some phoneticians, but this seems inadvisable to us, because the haček accent (ˇ) is also called that in names like Wedge C for (č)."
- 25 Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.; The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction. countable, uncountable
- 26 Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.; A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo. countable, uncountable
- 27 A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas. countable, uncountable
- 28 A wedge tornado. countable, uncountable
- 29 A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge). countable, uncountable
- 1 To support or secure using a wedge. transitive
"I wedged open the window with a screwdriver."
- 2 squeeze like a wedge into a tight space wordnet
- 3 To force into a narrow gap. ambitransitive
"He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa."
- 4 put, fix, force, or implant wordnet
- 5 To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass. transitive
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- 6 To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles. transitive
- 7 Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state. informal, intransitive
"My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update."
- 8 To cleave with a wedge. transitive
- 9 To force or drive with a wedge. transitive
- 10 To shape into a wedge. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
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