English Dictionary

wedge

IPA（発音記号）

/wɛd͡ʒ/

名詞

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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.

日本語の意味

くさび：片側が厚く、もう片側が薄い形状の物体。物を分割したり、締固めたり、固定または持ち上げたりするために、狭い隙間に差し込むことで働く、単純機械の一種。

He used a wedge to split the log along the grain.

彼は丸太を木目に沿って割るために楔を使った。

意味（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.

Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.

意味（2）

A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.

Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?

意味（3）

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

It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.

意味（4）

(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

意味（5）

(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.

意味（6）

(archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

意味（7）

A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

意味（8）

(golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

意味（9）

One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.

意味（10）

(obsolete) An ingot.

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

意味（11）

(obsolete, slang, uncountable) Silver or items made of silver collectively.

意味（12）

(colloquial, Britain) A quantity of money.

I made a big fat wedge from that job.

意味（13）

(US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.

意味（14）

One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.

意味（15）

(typography, US) A háček.

The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.

意味（16）

(phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

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).

意味（17）

(mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

意味（18）

(music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.

意味（19）

(meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.

意味（20）

(meteorology) A wedge tornado.

意味（21）

(finance) 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).

wedges （ plural ）