Noun

(en noun)

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 ().

Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.

A piece (of food etc.) having this shape.

Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?

(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

* 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.

(archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

(golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

A group of geese or swans when they are in flight in a V formation.

(in the plural) Wedge-heeled shoes.

(colloquial, British) A quantity of money.

I made a big fat wedge from that job.

(typography, US) =

* 1982 , Thomas Pyles and John Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English Language (3rd ed.), page 49

The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, ha?ek .

* 1996 , and William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide (2nd ed.), page xxvi

The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.

* 1999 , Florian Coulmas, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems , page 193, “há?ek”

The há?ek or ‘wedge'’ is a diacritic commonly used in Slavic orthographies. As a tone mark the ' wedge is used iconically for a falling-rising tone as in Chinese Pinyin.

(phonetics) The (l) character , which denotes an .

* 1996 , and William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide (2nd ed.), page 19

Turned V is referred to as “Wedge ” by some phoneticians, but this seems inadvisable to us, because the ha?ek accent (?) is also called that in names like Wedge C for (?).

(label) The symbol , denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, Cambridge University, slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.

* 1873 , Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English University

The last man is called the Wedge , corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.

Noun

(wikipedia force)

Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.

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* (1800-1859)

*:He was, in the full force of the words, a good man.

Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.

*(William Shakespeare), Henry VI, part II

*:which now they hold by force , and not by right

(lb) Anything that is able to make a big change in a person or thing.

A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body which is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)

Something or anything that has the power to produce an effect upon something else.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=(Henry Petroski), volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3

, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Opening Doors , passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.}}

(lb) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.

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*(William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline)

*:Is Lucius general of the forces ?

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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."

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, title= Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer , passage=For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force , which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.}}

(lb) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.

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(lb) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.

(lb) Legal validity.

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(lb) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry ", or lawful compulsion.

Noun

(en noun)

(countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.

* T. Gray

to see the falls or force of the river Kent