wedge
IPA: wˈɛdʒ
noun
- 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.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- (obsolete) An ingot.
- (obsolete, slang, uncountable, by extension) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
- (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
- (US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
- (typography, US) A háček.
- (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
- (finance) 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).
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
- (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
- (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
- (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
- (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
- (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
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Examples of "wedge" in Sentences
- Look how wide -- that's what we call a wedge tornado.
- A city that just really took a direct hit from what they call a wedge tornado.
- MARCIANO: Well, we've been throwing around the term wedge and rope tornados quite a bit.
- Not quite what we call a wedge tornado, but that is what we call a wedge tornado right there.
- The one that hit Greensburg was a very large, what they call a wedge tornado, and it caused a lot of destruction.
- Estimating the effects on behaviour of a tax wedge is a balck art; there's no valid way of doing it statistically, because you are comparing to a counterfactual.
- MADISON: And I also think that evangelicals are on the margin of this political season, and Dobson is trying to figure a way of how they can get their value, what we called wedge issues four years ago, back into the political discourse.
- So, while potentially effective with white voters in the short term, immigration wedge politics are also giving birth to another kind of wedge, the long term wedge born of the "I" words Republican presidential candidates so love to chant - in English.
- They were involved in efforts to remove the poll tax, voting rights and a lot of other things before they worked their way up to what we refer to as the wedge, the Brown case, which they say now with the Brown case, that Thurgood Marshall dismantled the system of American apartheid.
- Hemmed in by the 20ema on the weekly charts, the only sensible thing to do is sell just below it targeting 1.0400 or buy around 1.0200 but price is forming a short term wedge which is not a favorable price action formation to be trading, especially since we are over 80% into it so risk is increasing while reward is decreasing as the formation continues on.
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