Meaning of Wedge | Babel Free

Definitions

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
2. A surname.
3. The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
   UK
4. A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
   countable, uncountable
5. Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
6. A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
   countable, uncountable
7. A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
   countable, uncountable
8. A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
9. A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
   collective, countable, uncountable
10. A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
    countable, uncountable
11. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
    countable, uncountable
12. An ingot.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
13. Silver or items made of silver collectively.
    broadly, obsolete, slang, uncountable
14. A quantity of money.
    British, broadly, colloquial, countable, uncountable
15. A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
    US, countable, regional, uncountable
16. One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
    countable, uncountable
17. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
    US, countable, uncountable
18. A háček.
    US, countable, uncountable
19. The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
    countable, uncountable
20. The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
    countable, uncountable
21. A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
    countable, uncountable
22. A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
    countable, uncountable
23. A wedge tornado.
    countable, uncountable
24. 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

Equivalents

Examples

“Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.”

“Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?”

“We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza.”

“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.”

“She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.”

“Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.”

“He's got some decent wedge.”

“I made a big fat wedge from that job.”

“I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.”

“She hoped it wasn't a meatball wedge, because there's so much garlic in school meatballs that it might make my breath smell and knock the agent out of his chair.”

“Most people realize there are a lot of different names for that type of sandwich, so Scalone wondered what was so funny about wedge?”

“The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.”

“The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.”

“The háček or ‘wedge’ ⟨ˇ⟩ is a diacritic commonly used in Slavic orthographies. […] As a tone mark the wedge is used iconically for a falling-rising tone as in Chinese Pinyin.”

“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).”

“The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.”

CEFR level