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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- 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 (Wikipedia article).
- (UK, Cambridge University, slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food etc.) having this shape.
- (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
- (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- A group of geese or swans when they are in flight in a V formation.
- (in the plural) Wedge-heeled shoes.
- (colloquial, British) A quantity of money.
- (typography, US) = háček
- (phonetics) The IPA character , which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol , denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
Verbit
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
Esimerkit
- Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
- Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
- 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.
- I made a big fat wedge from that job.
- 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).
- "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
- I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
- He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
- The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.
- tax wedge – verokiila
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