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Edgelike vs Wedgelike - What's the difference?

edgelike | wedgelike |

As adjectives the difference between edgelike and wedgelike

is that edgelike is resembling or characteristic of an edge while wedgelike is shaped like a wedge.

edgelike

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of an edge.

    • wedgelike

    English

    Alternative forms

    * wedge-like

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shaped like a wedge.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike , breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration}}

    Synonyms

    * cuneiform * wedgy