wedge

Betekenis (Engels)

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. (obsolete) An ingot.
11. (obsolete,slang) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
12. (colloquial) 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. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
17. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
18. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
19. A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
20. A wedge tornado.
21. 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).

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. (informal) 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.

Concepten

wig

spie

keg

keil

een wig steken

een wig slaan

vendel

homp

hoek

pen

beklemmen

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/wɛd͡ʒ/

Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.