wedge 的 3 个定义
- 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.Compare machine.
- a piece of anything of like shape: a wedge of pie.
- a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.
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wedged, wedg·ing.
- to separate or split with or as if with a wedge: to wedge open a log.
- to insert or fix with a wedge.
- to pack or fix tightly: to wedge clothes into a suitcase.
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wedged, wedg·ing.
- to force a way like a wedge: The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.
wedge 近义词
solid piece, often triangular
更多wedge例句
- They think they’re going to win eventually, and they just need to slowly drive a wedge in there.
- Rather, deep rock pushing toward Earth’s surface may be driving a wedge between the plates that helps separate them, researchers report online January 27 in Nature.
- Like the wedge of cheese it is, Firefly Lane goes down easy with a glass of wine.
- Anti-snore pillows often come in the shape of a wedge, but you can also find smaller pillows to use as a level or an insert along with your current pillow.
- Almost anyone with an agenda and some know-how can shove a wedge of doubt between citizens and consequential facts, whether they be election results, climate science or ways to avoid life-threatening illness.
- The execution of two police officers in cold blood has shocked the city and driven a deeper wedge between the cops and the mayor.
- A decade ago, gays were a wedge issue used by Republicans to energize the base.
- In recent years there have been many issues driving a wedge between Riyadh and Washington.
- Bevin, along with state and national Democrats, delight in trying to drive a wedge between McConnell and Paul.
- Police squadrons had to form a “flying wedge” to break through the crowd to rescue blacks besieged in the park.
- The individual prisms are usually slender, with one beveled, wedge-like end, but are sometimes needle-like.
- I dont think much of this jam pie, complained Chet, holding up a wedge that he had taken from his sisters basket.
- It should be fixed in the head by means of a thin, barbed iron wedge.
- With the wedge Rose pried a floor-board out of its place, and made an opening large enough to let himself through.
- The gate was already opening, a wedge of the painted warriors heading through, flame-throwers ready.