wedge
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3.4
- noun
- /wɛdʒ/
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cuña
- For breakfast, I enjoyed a wedge of cheese on my toast.
- wedge-shaped
- drive a wedge
- place a wedge
It's Mox Clamato mixed with Smirnoff vodka and cocktail shrimp garnished with lime wedge and pickled beans.
- It's Mox Clamato mixed with Smirnoff vodka and cocktail shrimp garnished with lime wedge and pickled beans.
Examples
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This is the thin end of a very fat wedge, sir.
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We'll drive a wedge along the shore... and keep his forces split.
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The mouth of the canyon has been wounded, a wedge of concrete driven into it.
Academic text (2002) -
Behind him, the barn threw a long wedge of shadow on the red sand.
Fiction book (1995) -
Pressed together, thin end to thick end, the wedges form a parallel-faced plate.
Academic text (2005) -
I stared out the windshield, waiting for the wedge of light from Sankaty Head to swing around again.
Fiction book (1990) -
Our clinical impression was that this lesion represented a fibroma, and a wedge excision was performed.
Academic text (2006) -
Fat Self smiled and cut the pancakes into bite-sized wedges, then fed them to Iris.
Fiction book (1995) -
Before serving, cut the lemon into wedges for garnish.
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The carpenter used a wooden wedge to hold the door open.
Synonyms
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8.0
A block placed against a wheel to stop it rolling
A small tool you put under something to hold it steady for a short time
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Etymology
Wedge goes back to an old German word that meant 'to drive in' or 'to split'. A wedge is literally a piece driven into a gap to force things apart or hold them, which is why a wooden or metal wedge is used to split logs or keep a door open.