wedge

Etymology 1
, from, from , from.

Noun



 * 1) 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.
 * 2) A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
 * 3)  Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
 * 4)  A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
 * 5)  A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
 * 6)  A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
 * 7) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
 * 8)  A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
 * 9) One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
 * 10)  An ingot.
 * 11)  Silver or items made of silver collectively.
 * 12)  A quantity of money.
 * 13)  A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
 * 14) One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
 * 15) Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
 * 16)  A.
 * 17)  The  character, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
 * 18)  The symbol, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
 * 19)  A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
 * 20)  A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
 * 21)  A wedge tornado.
 * 22)  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).
 * 1) One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
 * 2) Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
 * 3)  A.
 * 4)  The  character, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
 * 5)  The symbol, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
 * 6)  A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
 * 7)  A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
 * 8)  A wedge tornado.
 * 9)  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).
 * 1)  The symbol, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
 * 2)  A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
 * 3)  A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
 * 4)  A wedge tornado.
 * 5)  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).
 * 1)  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).

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: إِسْفِين, ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: سفين
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: шына
 * Belarusian: клін
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kile
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, calzo ,
 * Georgian: სოლი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σφήν
 * Greenlandic: quppaqut
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, वैज
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:, , , fermaporta
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: сына, танап
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ຫລິ້ນ, ສາກ
 * Latin: cuneus
 * Latvian: ķīlis
 * Lithuanian: vagis
 * Lombard: qignœl
 * Macedonian: клин
 * Malay: baji
 * Maori: kahi, matakahi, mākahi, tahatiti
 * Middle English: wegge
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: bee ałkʼíniilkaałí
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: клинъ
 * Old East Slavic: клинъ
 * Old English: wecg
 * Old High German: weggi
 * Old Norse: veggr
 * Ottoman Turkish: قامه
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Kjiel
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, клин
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: klin
 * Slovene: klin
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: klin
 * Upper Sorbian: klin
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: фона, биғоз
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: pahna, şinde
 * Ukrainian: клин
 * Urdu: کیل
 * Uyghur: پانا
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:, , ,
 * Finnish: ;
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 一切れ
 * Ladin: tòch
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sicilian: feḍḍa,
 * Spanish: rebanada triangular
 * Swedish:
 * Venetian:, ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 楔體
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Sicilian:


 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Spanish: formación en V, formación en cuña
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic: wedgi, sandjárn, kastjárn
 * Italian: ferro da alzo
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: formazione a cuneo di oche, ,
 * Polish:
 * Quechua: ananinami
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: bandada formada en V
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: kiilakorkokenkä
 * Portuguese: sapato anabela
 * Sicilian: zòcculi
 * Spanish: zapato de cuña
 * Swedish: kilklackssko


 * Finnish: ,
 * Sicilian:, munzeḍḍu


 * Sicilian:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Romanian: conjuncție logică
 * Sicilian: cuniunziuni lòggica,


 * Ido:

Verb

 * 1)  To support or secure using a wedge.
 * 2)  To force into a narrow gap.
 * 3)  To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
 * 4)  To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
 * 5)  Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
 * 6)  To cleave with a wedge.
 * 7)  To force or drive with a wedge.
 * 8)  To shape into a wedge.
 * 1)  To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
 * 2)  Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
 * 3)  To cleave with a wedge.
 * 4)  To force or drive with a wedge.
 * 5)  To shape into a wedge.
 * 1)  To shape into a wedge.

Derived terms

 * wedge up

Translations

 * Bulgarian: заклинвам
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, , calzar
 * Italian:, imbiettare,
 * Ottoman Turkish: قامه‌لامق
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: قامه‌لامق
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: kila in, kila fast
 * Turkish: ,

Etymology 2
From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

Noun

 * 1)  The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  wedge