wedge

wedge

  1. kiila

  2. (tilastotiede) kiila

  3. (filatelia) vaaja

Esimerkkejä wedge sanan käytöstä:

wedge – verokiila

Synonyymisanakirja

wedge

  1. kirveen pää, kirveen teräosa, kirveenhamara, järkäle, lohkare, pönkkä, kiila, auran terä, tiehöylän terä, auran siipi, pitching wedge, rautamaila.

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Käännökset

englanti

kiila

wedge

panna

rautamaila 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?

We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza.

puhekieltä A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
puhekieltä Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
2013 September 28, w:Kenan Malik|Kenan Malik, "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/london-is-special-but-not-that-special.html?ref=opinion 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.
puhekieltä A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
puhekieltä A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
A group of goose geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
One of a pair of wedge heel|wedge-heeled shoe shoes.
2010, Sue Limb, Girls, Guilty But Somehow Glorious
She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.
puhekieltä A quantity of money.

I made a big fat wedge from that job.

puhekieltä (l)
1982, Thomas Pyles and John Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English Language (3rd ed.), http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ERl5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22wedge%22&dq=%22wedge%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=umg0T9PBG4Wi0QXG-fXWCQ&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBjgK page 49
The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.
1996, w:Geoffrey K. Pullum|Geoffrey Keith Pullum and William A. Ladusaw, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PHb7ug_U_O0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=wedge&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gGgxT7KJM8i1-waEyo3vBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAAv=onepage&q=wedge&f=false 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, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y3KdxBqjg5cC&pg=PA193&dq=%22wedge%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c380T-nlHai80QWpyaSfAg&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBzgKv=onepage&q=%22wedge%22&f=false page 193, “háček”
The háček 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.
puhekieltä The (l) character (IPAchar), which denotes an w:Open-mid back unrounded vowel|open-mid back unrounded vowel.
1996, w:Geoffrey K. Pullum|Geoffrey Keith Pullum and William A. Ladusaw, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PHb7ug_U_O0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=wedge&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gGgxT7KJM8i1-waEyo3vBQ&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAAv=onepage&q=wedge&f=false 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 haček accent (ˇ) is also called that in names like Wedge C for (č).
puhekieltä The symbol (m), denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
puhekieltä a wedge tornado
To support or secure using a wedge.

I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.

1922, (w), (w) Chapter 1
"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.
To force into a narrow gap.

He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.

To work wet clay by cutting or knead kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
puhekieltä Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.

puhekieltä 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.

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