wedge

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /wɛd͡ʒ/    美 /wɛd͡ʒ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
  2. The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos. UK
    — The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.
  3. A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. countable,uncountable
    — Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
  4. Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Near-synonyms: wedge issue, salami tactics, culture wars
  5. A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. countable,uncountable
  6. A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault. countable,uncountable
  7. A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation. archaic,countable,uncountable
  8. A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation. collective,countable,uncountable
  9. A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories. countable,uncountable
  10. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes. countable,uncountable
    — She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.
  11. An ingot. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure. Lay out our golden wedges to the view, That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.
  12. Silver or items made of silver collectively. broadly,obsolete,slang,uncountable
  13. A quantity of money. UK,broadly,colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — He's got some decent wedge.
  14. A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll. New-York,US,countable,regional,uncountable
    — I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
  15. One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus. countable,uncountable
  16. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.; A háček. US,countable,uncountable
    — The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.
  17. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.; The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel. countable,uncountable
    — 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).
  18. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.; The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction. countable,uncountable
  19. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.; A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo. countable,uncountable
  20. A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas. countable,uncountable
  21. A wedge tornado. countable,uncountable
  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). countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To support or secure using a wedge. transitive
    — I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
  2. To force into a narrow gap. ambitransitive
    — He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
  3. To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass. transitive
  4. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles. transitive
  5. Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state. informal,intransitive
    — My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
  6. To cleave with a wedge. transitive
  7. To force or drive with a wedge. transitive
  8. To shape into a wedge. transitive

词形变化

wedges plural wedges present,singular,third-person wedging participle,present wedged participle,past wedged past wedges plural

词汇关系

近义词
turned v
衍生词
accretionary wedge approach wedge cross-wedge drive a wedge drive a wedge between edge-of-the-wedge theorem flying wedge fox wedge gap wedge hand wedge ice wedge lob wedge pitching wedge potato wedge salt wedge sand wedge shoe wedge Sikkim wedge-billed babbler small end of the wedge spherical wedge substorm current wedge tax wedge Texas wedge thin edge of the wedge thin end of the wedge wedge-and-dash wedge-feeder wedge gage wedge gauge wedge gear wedge issue wedgelike wedge of circles wedge pea wedge politics wedge prism wedge product wedge salad wedge-shaped wedge shell wedge sum wedge-tailed eagle wedge tomb wedge-writing wedge up

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
词源 2
From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.
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