Wedge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.”

2. isim A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.

   “Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?”

3. isim Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

   “drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]”

4. isim A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
5. isim A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
6. isim A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
7. isim A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
8. isim A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
9. isim One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

   “She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.”

10. isim An ingot.

    “Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.”

11. isim Silver or items made of silver collectively.
12. isim A quantity of money.

    “He's got some decent wedge.”

13. isim A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

    “I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.”

14. isim One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
15. isim A háček.

    “The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.”

16. isim The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

    “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).”

17. isim The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
18. isim A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
19. isim A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
20. isim A wedge tornado.
21. fiil To support or secure using a wedge.

    “I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.”

22. fiil To force into a narrow gap.

    “He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.”

23. fiil To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
24. fiil To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
25. fiil Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

    “My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.”

26. fiil To cleave with a wedge.
27. fiil To force or drive with a wedge.
28. fiil To shape into a wedge.
29. isim The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.

    “The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.”

30. özel isim A surname.