wedge
11wedge — [wɛdʒ] n. m. ÉTYM. Mil. XXe; mot anglais. ❖ ♦ Anglic. Golf. Club à tête métallique pour les coups d approche (20 à 40 m) …
12wedge — [n] solid piece, often triangular block, chock, chunk, cleat, cotter, cusp, keystone, lump, prong, quoin, shim, spire, taper; concepts 471,499 Ant. whole …
13Wedge — [vɛdʒ̮], der; [s], s <englisch> (ein Golfschläger; meist Plural: frittierte Kartoffelspalte; Schuh mit keilförmigem, durchgehendem Absatz) …
14Wedge — The term wedge can refer to any of the following things:Physical Objects: * Wedge (mechanical device), a simple machine used to separate two objects, or portions of objects, through the application of force * Wedge (golf), a specialized type of… …
15wedge — wedgelike, adj. /wej/, n., v., wedged, wedging. n. 1. a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Cf.… …
16wedge — /wɛdʒ / (say wej) noun 1. a device (one of the so called simple machines) consisting of a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle. 2. a piece of anything of this shape: a wedge of pie; a cheese wedge. 3.… …
17wedge — I UK [wedʒ] / US noun [countable] Word forms wedge : singular wedge plural wedges 1) a) a piece of wood, plastic, or other material that is thin at one end and wider at the other and is pressed into a space to hold something in place or to force… …
18wedge — wedge1 [ wedʒ ] noun count 1. ) a piece of wood, plastic, or other material that is thin at one end and wider at the other and is pressed into a space to hold something in place or to force things apart a ) something that has the shape of a wedge …
19Wedge — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Wedge », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Wedge peut faire référence à : cale en… …
20wedge — [[t]we̱ʤ[/t]] wedges, wedging, wedged 1) VERB If you wedge something, you force it to remain in a particular position by holding it there tightly or by fixing something next to it to prevent it from moving. [V n] I shut the shed door and wedged… …
