wedge
楔子,楔形,楔形物,楔状物
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Definitions
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- : a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer.Compare machine.
- : a piece of anything of like shape: a wedge of pie.
- : a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.
- : Meteorology. an elongated area of relatively high pressure.
- : something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.: The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization.
- : Military. a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy.
- : Golf. a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, especially out of sand traps and high grass.
- : Optics. optical wedge.
- : haček.
- : Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich.
- : a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
They think they’re going to win eventually, and they just need to slowly drive a wedge in there.
Rather, deep rock pushing toward Earth’s surface may be driving a wedge between the plates that helps separate them, researchers report online January 27 in Nature.
Like the wedge of cheese it is, Firefly Lane goes down easy with a glass of wine.
Anti-snore pillows often come in the shape of a wedge, but you can also find smaller pillows to use as a level or an insert along with your current pillow.
Almost anyone with an agenda and some know-how can shove a wedge of doubt between citizens and consequential facts, whether they be election results, climate science or ways to avoid life-threatening illness.
The execution of two police officers in cold blood has shocked the city and driven a deeper wedge between the cops and the mayor.
A decade ago, gays were a wedge issue used by Republicans to energize the base.
In recent years there have been many issues driving a wedge between Riyadh and Washington.
Bevin, along with state and national Democrats, delight in trying to drive a wedge between McConnell and Paul.
Police squadrons had to form a “flying wedge” to break through the crowd to rescue blacks besieged in the park.
The individual prisms are usually slender, with one beveled, -like end, but are sometimes needle-like.