wedge

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   verbtransitive

   To give something the shape of a wedge.

   Similartaper, sharpen, point

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   nouncountable or uncountable

   In math, a solid shape with five flat sides, including a rectangle base and two triangle ends.

   Each student made a wedge out of cardboard for math class.

   The teacher asked us to count the faces of the wedge.

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    knead clayverbtransitive

    To knead or cut wet clay so it is the same all through and has no air bubbles.

    Always wedge your clay before you put it on the wheel.

    She wedged the clay for ten minutes to get the bubbles out.

    Similarknead

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    bird flocknouncollectivecountable or uncountable

    A group of birds, like geese, flying in the shape of a V.

    A wedge of geese flew over the lake.

    We watched two wedges of swans head south.

    UsageSay a wedge of geese.

    Similarskein

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    moneynouncolloquialBritishcountable or uncountable

    An amount of money, often a lot of it.

    He's earning a nice wedge at his new job.

    She's got loads of wedge saved for her holiday.

    UsageSay a nice wedge or loads of wedge.

    Similarpacket, bundle, dosh, wad

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    sandwichnoundialectalUScountable or uncountable

    A big sandwich made on a long roll.

    I grabbed a turkey wedge from the deli for lunch.

    My uncle brought a big Italian wedge to share at the picnic.

    UsageMany people call this a sub.

    Similarsub, hoagie, hero, grinder

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    freeze (computer)verbcolloquialintransitive

    Of a computer or program, to get stuck and stop responding.

    My laptop wedged halfway through the update.

    Old phones sometimes wedge when you open too many apps.

    UsageSay the computer is wedged.

    Similarhang, freeze

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    nouncountable

    A mark shaped like a V, used as a sign in writing, math, sounds, or music.

    In Czech, a small wedge over the letter c makes it sound like 'ch.'

    The upside-down V, called a wedge, stands for the vowel sound in 'cup.'

    Similarchevron, caret

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    army formationnouncountable or uncountable

    A group of soldiers or military vehicles moving in a V shape, with the point facing the enemy.

    The general sent a wedge of horsemen straight at the enemy line.

    The wedge broke the enemy army in two.

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    gold barnounobsoletecountable or uncountable

    A bar or block of metal, such as gold, made by pouring it into a mold.

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

    c. 1587, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First PartHere, wedges means blocks of gold cast in a mold.

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    nounobsoleteuncountable

    Silver, or all the things made of silver, taken together.

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    noun

    A tornado with a very wide funnel shaped like a wedge.
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    noun

    A pattern on a price chart where prices move in a narrower and narrower band while going up or down.
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    noun

    One of the small triangle-shaped marks, made with the corner of a reed pen, that make up cuneiform writing.
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    noun

    A long area of high air pressure between two areas of low pressure on a weather map.
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    noun

    One of the stones, narrower at one end, that fit together to make an arch.
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    nounUK

    At Cambridge University, the student who came last in the final classics exams.

    The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.

    1873, Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English UniversityHere, Wedge is a joke name for the student ranked last on the honors list.