Wedge

[wedʒ] or [wɛdʒ]

解釋/意思:

(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.) any shape that is triangular in cross section.

(verb.) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; 'I squeezed myself into the corner'.

丹尼斯編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

(n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

(n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.

(n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.

(n.) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

(v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.

(v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.

(v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.

(v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.

(v. t.) To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.

(v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

手打:威特

解釋/意思:

n. a piece of wood or metal thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other used in splitting: anything shaped like a wedge: a mass of metal: at Cambridge the man lowest on the list of the classical tripos.—v.t. to cleave with a wedge: to force or drive with a wedge: to press closely: to fasten with a wedge: to make into a wedge.—v.i. to force one's way like a wedge.—adjs. Wedged cuneiform or wedge-shaped; Wedge′-shaped having the shape of a wedge; Wedge′-tailed having the tail wedge-shaped or cuneate.—adv. Wedge′wise in the manner of a wedge.—n. Wedg′ing a method of joining timbers.—Wedge of least resistance the form in which a substance yields to pressure.—The thin or small end of the wedge the insignificant-looking beginning of a principle or practice which will yet lead to something great and important.

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