Wedge

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

44 more languages

العربيةإسفينالوتدوتد

Българскиклин

Bosanskibitćalečunajakamakilakileklinnemклин+ 7 more

Catalàfalcafalcarpartquarttascótros+ 3 more

Češtinaklín

Cymraeglletem

Danskkile

Ελληνικάσμήνοςσφήνα

Esperantokojno

Eestikiil

SuomiAurajajänkäkiilakiilakorkokenkäkiilatakolmiokonjunktiomassipaaluvaaja+ 8 more

Gaeilgeding

Gàidhliggèinn

Galegocalzarcuñaforragrillorebosopatillar+ 4 more

עבריתטריזפלח

हिन्दीकिल्लाकीलगट्टागुटका+ 1 more

Hrvatskibitćalečunajakamakilakileklinnemклин+ 7 more

Magyarék

Հայերենսեպ

Bahasa Indonesiaapitbajitangsel

ItalianoanatrebiettacigniconficcareCuneofermaporta (doorstop)ferro da alzoformazione a cuneo di ocheimbiettareincastrareincuneareinfilarerincalzarespicchiozeppa+ 12 more

日本語ウェッジ一切れ楔

ქართულისოლი

ភាសាខ្មែរបន្លួញ

한국어쐐기

Kurdîbitdingekêkkilnemparttroş+ 5 more

Кыргызчаказык

Latinacuneus

ລາວສາກ

Lietuviųvagis

Македонскиклин

မြန်မာသပ်

Nederlandsspievendelwig

Polskikawałekklinklinowyklocekklucz+ 2 more

Portuguêsatocharcunhãenfiarfatiasapato anabelasocar+ 3 more

Românăcardfeliepana

Русскийвклиниватьвтискиватьклинкусокраскли́нивать+ 2 more

Shqippykë

Српскиbitćalečunajakamakilakileklinnemклин+ 7 more

Svenskabitkilkilaplog+ 1 more

ไทยลิ่ม

Türkçekamasıkıştırmaktakoztıkmak+ 1 more

اردوکیل

Tiếng Việtchémnemnêm

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.”

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