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) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
- (colloquial, Britain, countable, uncountable) 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.
- (transitive, intransitive) 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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