Sekirov Dictionary

wedge

/wɛd͡ʒ/

noun 25
verb 8
forms 3
phrases 3

noun25

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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.
- Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
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A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
- We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza, and an iceberg wedge as our side salad.
A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
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(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]
A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories; a shot made with such a club.
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One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes, which lift the heel of the foot from the ground.
- She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century. — 2010
Things shaped like a V
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A group of cranes, ducks, geese, gulls, pelicans, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- The girl stopped short off and searched the sky for a wedge of geese. — 1924
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(US) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
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(US) A háček.
- The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček. — 1982
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The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- 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). — 1996
The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
Phenomena that, when charted, result in a V shape
A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
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).
A wedge tornado.
A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
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(UK) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics. — 1873
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(UK, informal) A quantity of money.
- He's got some decent wedge.
- I made a big fat wedge from that job.
(no longer used) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
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(no longer used) An ingot.
- Open the Males, yet guard the treasure sure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perseans. — 1587
(slang, no longer used) Silver or items made of silver collectively.

verb8

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To force into a narrow gap.
- He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
- I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.
To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
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To support or secure using a wedge.
- I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
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(informal) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
To force or drive with a wedge.
To shape into a wedge.
To cleave with a wedge.
To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

forms

wedged · wedging · wedges

Phrases with wedge

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