wedge
n. 楔子, 楔形物, 起因, 导致分裂的东西 vt. 楔住, 挤进, 楔入 vi. 楔入, 挤进
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教材释义与例句
楔入；挤进；楔住
楔入；挤进
释义与例句
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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.
楔
楔子
可数 不可数Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
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A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
可数 不可数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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3.
Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
可数 比喻 不可数Near-synonyms: wedge issue, salami tactics, culture wars
drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]
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A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
楔体
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A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
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A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
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A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
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A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
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One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
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An ingot.
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Silver or items made of silver collectively.
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A quantity of money.
非正式 可数 不可数 引申义He's got some decent wedge.
I made a big fat wedge from that job.
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A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
美国 可数 不可数I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
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One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
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Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
A háček.
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Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
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Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
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Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
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A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
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A wedge tornado.
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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).
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The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
英国
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To support or secure using a wedge.
及物I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
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2.
To force into a narrow gap.
及物/不及物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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Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
非正式 不及物 计算机 工程 数学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.
及物
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词源
From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
来源：wiktionary