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    A wedge is a piece of solid material, thick at one end and thin at the other, shaped like a triangle. You push the thin end into a narrow gap to split something apart, like splitting wood, or to hold something firmly in place, like a wedge under a door to stop it closing. Food is also cut "into wedges" - a wedge of cheese or a lemon wedge is a triangle-shaped piece.

    楔形物、三角形切塊。

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原始詞典資料31 筆記錄

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Wedgename

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    A surname.

wedgenoun詞源 1/wɛd͡ʒ/

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    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.
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    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.

    • Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
    • We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza, and an iceberg wedge as our side salad.
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    geometrymathematicssciencesOne 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.

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    architectureOne 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.

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

    • Near-synonyms: wedge issue, salami tactics, culture wars
    • drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]
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    golfhobbieslifestyleSomething that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

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

    • She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.
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    mediapublishingtypographyAny symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

    • The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.
    • The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.
另外 13 個記錄的用法
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    human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsAny symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

    • 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).
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    mathematicssciencesAny symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

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    entertainmentlifestylemusicAny symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

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    Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

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    obsoleteAn ingot.

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

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    obsoleteAn ingot.

    • He's got some decent wedge.
    • I made a big fat wedge from that job.
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    archaicThings shaped like a V

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    biologynatural-scienceszoologyThings shaped like a V

    • The girl stopped short off and searched the sky for a wedge of geese.
    • A screaming wedge of birds wheeled above me, then winged off across the darkening water
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    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesThings shaped like a V

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    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesPhenomena that, when charted, result in a V shape

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    businessfinancePhenomena that, when charted, result in a V shape

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    regionalA sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

    • I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
    • She hoped it wasn't a meatball wedge, because there's so much garlic in school meatballs that it might make my breath smell and knock the agent out of his chair.

wedgeverb詞源 1/wɛd͡ʒ/

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    To support or secure using a wedge.

    • I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
    • "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
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    To force 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.
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    To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.

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    To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

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    informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsOf a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

    • My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
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    To cleave with a wedge.

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    To force or drive with a wedge.

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    To shape into a wedge.

wedgenoun詞源 2/wɛd͡ʒ/

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    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.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。