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Meaning wedge meaning

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Definitions in simple English

wedge Noun

— A wedge is something in the shape of a triangle that someone pushes under a door or into a crack. You can break a log into two pieces by knocking a wedge into it with a hammer.

wedge Verb

— If you wedge something, you force it into a narrow gap. He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa. I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.

wedge

— noun any shape that is triangular in cross section — verb (= lodge, stick) put, fix, force, or implant lodge a bullet in the table stick your thumb in the crack — verb (= squeeze) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space I squeezed myself into the corner — noun something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them — noun (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole — noun (= wedge heel) a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe — noun (= hacek) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation — noun (= chock) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object — noun (= bomber) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

Synonyms wedge synonyms

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wedge English » English

chock peg squeeze pin wedge heel stick lodge force cleat support slice hacek deposit zep wedge shape trig torpedo thrust submarine sandwich submarine sub shim quoin push press poor boy pivotal point penetrate obtrude lever jam intrude insert hoagy hoagie hero sandwich hero grinder flash of lightning cuneus chisel bomber Italian sandwich Cuban sandwich wooden wedge wooden pin wedging wedge pattern vee formation troop

Topics wedge topics

What do people use wedge to talk about?
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Put in

Conjugation wedge conjugation

How do you conjugate wedge?

wedge · verb

Examples wedge examples

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Simple sentences

The screw, the lever, the wedge, the pulley, etc. are called simple machines.
More painful than any wedge.

Movie subtitles

Don't you see you're letting it drive a wedge between you and Spencer?
The Germans will attack in a wedge formation.
You've been running all night. In the daytime you shall stand and sustain their blow, halt the German wedge and hold fast until we crush them from the flanks.
The German wedge!
When the Germans hit Buslai, let the wedge stick in deep and then we will hit them together from both sides.
Give me another wedge!
A second German wedge is reported 14 miles west of Malmedy where tank columns cut the road to Bastogne.
Yes, it's the thin end of the wedge.
It's just a little old wedge.
Uh, yeah. Wedge of pie.
The Americans have formed a wedge.
We'll drive a wedge along the shore to split his forces.
Now, with Captain sale, we have a wedge. Behind which we can drive in deep until we split Red Dragon Tong and all the evil and filth that is in it spills out and is gone forever.
The wedge is fixed. The next blow must be his.
Give me the wedge, will you?
Give me that wedge.
Wedge it tight.
Shut up! The Americans made quite a wedge.
We make a wedge here, which must stand until tomorrow.
We'll drive a wedge along the shore. and keep his forces split.
Each word is a wedge between us.
I will make a man more precious than fine gold even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
Drimble Wedge and the Vegetation!
Take ten minutes to get myself a king-sized Coke and a wedge of pie.
Don't forget the wedge.
That will give them the wedge they need to claim Sherman's Planet.
While this deluded nation arms for defense we will drive deeper the wedge of discontent and confusion.
I had Mr. Jackson make a Little wedge, and it's perfectly in place.
We'll drive a wedge along the shore and keep his forces split.
No, Kirk, you can't let him. That will give them the wedge they need to claim Sherman's Planet.
You drove a wedge between your own son and his fiancee only to possess her for yourself!
The thin end of the wedge.
Well, I can wedge it for ya', for now.
It's rocking. -Wedge something under it, make it firm.
Mind if I drive in a wedge?
As a planet moves along its orbit, it sweeps out in a given period of time, an imaginary wedge-shaped area.
Wedge, I've lost my gunner.
I see it, Wedge.
Ververgaert, we figured it out. - Wedge the butt tightly against the meaty muscle of your right shoulder.
Can't get the wedge in!

News and current affairs

People also believe that tax increases cannot realistically be purely temporary expedients in an economic crisis, and that they must be regarded as an opening wedge that should be avoided at all costs.
Beijing hosted a secret visit by Kim Jong Il at the end of May, perhaps to talk him into hosting the summit as a wedge to replace Washington as the major player on the peninsula.
But a Syrian-Israeli peace would drive a wedge between Syria and Iran, thereby cutting off Hezbollah's lines of arms supply while allowing the vital task of stabilizing Lebanon to succeed.
Xi seized the opportunity to drive a wedge between America's two main Asian allies, and built a memorial to Ahn.
The lawyer's movement, it seems, drove a historic wedge between the judiciary and the executive.
The Israeli-American strategy of driving a wedge between Gaza and the West Bank while shunning negotiations on a peace settlement that could give Abbas the ultimate tool to undermine Hamas is a policy at war with itself.
Financial interests opposed it vigorously at the time, viewing it as the thin end of a dangerous wedge, though they could not have guessed just how thick that wedge would eventually become.
With America's workers producing more in less time, it is no wonder that a wedge is being driven between the (good) output news and the (bad) employment news.
Luzhkov, after all, had been vocally critical of Medvedev, while praising Putin - allegedly an attempt to drive a wedge between the two.
These policies should aim at reducing or eliminating the wedge between activities that are good for individuals, banks, and firms, and those that benefit society as a whole.
In both cases - financial stability and cyber security - the risk of contagion creates a situation in which a wedge can form between private incentives and social risks.
But there is a risk that these interventions are the thin end of a dangerous wedge.
Holes in the social safety net have led to high and rising levels of precautionary saving - driving a wedge between increases in labor income and any impetus to discretionary purchasing power.
And, as fragilities increase - and as a financial wedge is driven into the eurozone's core (Germany and France) - growth and employment prospects dim.
The reforms endorsed by the Third Plenum focus on this wedge between income and consumption, offering specific proposals aimed at altering the behavior of fear-driven Chinese families.
Finally, following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, which drove a wedge between the Kremlin and the West, Turkey had carved out a strategically advantageous position between the two sides.
But, with this exchange of visits, a wedge has been opened for dialogue on more neutral ground.

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