Wedge vs Crowed - What's the difference?
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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 ().
A piece (of food etc.) having this shape.
(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.
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(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.
(typography, US) =
* 1982 , Thomas Pyles and John Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English Language (3rd ed.),
* 1996 , and William A. Ladusaw,
* 1999 , Florian Coulmas, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems ,
(phonetics) The (l) character , which denotes an .
* 1996 , and William A. Ladusaw,
(label) The symbol , denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
To support or secure using a wedge.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
To force into a narrow gap.
To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
(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
(crow)
A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus , having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
* 1922 , E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroborus
A bar of iron with a beak, crook, or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, page 267:
The cry of the rooster.
A gangplank () used by the Roman navy to board enemy ships.
(among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in joy, gaiety, or defiance.
* Shakespeare
* 1962 , (Bob Dylan),
To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
To utter a sound expressive of joy or pleasure.
* Tennyson
* 1913 , :
(music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.
As verbs the difference between wedge and crowed
is that wedge is to support or secure using a wedge while crowed is (crow).As a noun wedge
is 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 () or wedge can be (uk|cambridge university|slang) the person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.wedge
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)- Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
- Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
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.
- I made a big fat wedge from that job.
page 49
- The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, ha?ek .
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.
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.
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 (?).
Synonyms
* (group of geese) skein * (l)Verb
- I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
- "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
- He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
Derived terms
* wedge issue * wedge politics * wedgieEtymology 2
From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.Noun
(en noun)- The last man is called the Wedge , corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.
Synonyms
* wooden wedgeSee also
* wooden spooncrowed
English
Verb
(head)crow
English
(wikipedia crow)Etymology 1
(etyl) ‘to crow’. See below.Noun
(en noun)- Gaslark in his splendour on the golden stairs saying adieu to those three captains and their matchless armament foredoomed to dogs and crows on Salapanta Hills.
- He approached the humble tomb in which Antonia reposed. He had provided himself with an iron crow and a pick-axe: but this precaution was unnecessary.
Synonyms
* (bar) crowbar * (cry of a rooster) cock-a-doodle-dooDerived terms
* American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos ) * as the crow flies * Australian crow (Corvus orru ) * Banggai crow (Corvus unicolor ) * bare-faced crow (Corvus tristis ) * Bismarck crow (Corvus insularis ) * black crow (Corvus capensis ) * Bougainville crow (Corvus meeki ) * brown-headed crow (Corvus fuscicapillus ) * cape crow (Corvus capensis ) * carrion crow (Corvus corone ) * Celebes pied crow (Corvus typicus ) * collared crow (Corvus torquatus ) * Cuban crow (Corvus nasicus ) * Danish crow * eastern jungle crow (Corvus (macrorhynchos) levaillantii ) * eat crow * Eurasian crow (Corvus corone ) * fish crow (Corvus ossifragus ) * Flores crow (Corvus florensis ) * grey crow (Corvus tristis ) * Hawaiian crow (Corvus hawaiiensis'', ''Corvus tropicus ) * high-billed crow * hooded crow (Corvus cornix ) * hoodiecrow * house crow (Corvus splendens ) * Indian house crow (Corvus splendens ) * Indian jungle crow (Corvus (macrorhynchos) culminatus ) * Iraq pied crow (Corvus (cornix) capellanus ) * Jamaican crow (Corvus jamaicensis ) * jungle crow (Corvus macrorhynchos ) * large-billed crow (Corvus (macrorhynchos) macrorhynchos ) * little crow (Corvus bennetti ) * long-billed crow (Corvus validus ) * Mariana crow (Corvus kubaryi ) * Mesopotamian crow (Corvus (cornix) capellanus ) * New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides ) * New Ireland crow * northwestern crow (Corvus caurinus ) * palm crow (Corvus palmarum ) * pied crow (Corvus albus ) * piping crow (Corvus typicus ) * Puerto Rican crow (Corvus pumilis ) * Robust crow (Corvus viriosus ) * Salomon Islands crow (Corvus meeki'', ''Corvus woodfordi ) * Scotch crow * Sinaloan crow (Corvus sinaloae ) * slender-billed crow (Corvus enca ) * Somali crow (Corvus (ruficolis) edithae ) * stone the crows * Tamaulipas crow (Corvus imparatus ) * Torresian crow (Corvus orru ) * violaceous crow (Corvus (enca) violaceus ) * white-billed crow (Corvus woodfordi ) * white-necked crow (Corvus leucognaphalus )See also
* caw * murder of crows (= flock of crows) * ravenExternal links
*Etymology 2
(etyl) ). Related to (m).Verb
- The morning cock crew loud.
- When your rooster crows at the break o' dawn
- Look out your window and I'll be gone.
- He's been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.
- the sweetest little maid that ever crowed for kisses
- Hearing the miner's footsteps, the baby would put up his arms and crow .