Definitions from Wiktionary (Wedge)
▸ 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.
▸ noun: A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
▸ noun: (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
▸ noun: (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
▸ noun: (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
▸ noun: (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
▸ noun: A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
▸ noun: (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
▸ noun: One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
▸ noun: (obsolete) An ingot.
▸ noun: (obsolete, slang, uncountable, by extension) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
▸ noun: (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
▸ noun: (US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
▸ noun: One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
▸ noun: Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
▸ noun: (typography, US) A háček.
▸ noun: (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
▸ noun: (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
▸ noun: (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
▸ noun: (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
▸ noun: (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ verb: (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
▸ verb: (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
▸ verb: (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
▸ verb: (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
▸ verb: (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
▸ noun: (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see wedge
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▸ 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.
▸ noun: A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
▸ noun: (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
▸ noun: (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
▸ noun: (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
▸ noun: (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
▸ noun: A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
▸ noun: (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
▸ noun: One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
▸ noun: (obsolete) An ingot.
▸ noun: (obsolete, slang, uncountable, by extension) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
▸ noun: (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
▸ noun: (US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
▸ noun: One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
▸ noun: Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
▸ noun: (typography, US) A háček.
▸ noun: (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
▸ noun: (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
▸ noun: (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
▸ noun: (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
▸ noun: (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ verb: (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
▸ verb: (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
▸ verb: (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
▸ verb: (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
▸ verb: (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
▸ verb: (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
▸ verb: (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
▸ verb: (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
▸ noun: (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ Also see wedge
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