wedge – English noun declension

English noun forms of wedge

Noun: wedge
Singularwedge
Pluralwedges

Sample Sentences

  • Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
  • Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
  • We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza, and an iceberg wedge as our side salad.
  • Near-synonyms: wedge issue, salami tactics, culture wars
  • drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]
  • 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. [2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:]
  • She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century. [2010, Sue Limb, Girls, Guilty But Somehow Glorious:]
  • The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček. [1982, Thomas Pyles, John Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English Language, 3rd edition, page 49:]
  • The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not. [1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum, William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide, 2nd edition, page xxvi:]
  • The háček or ‘wedge’ ⟨ˇ⟩ 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. [1999, Florian Coulmas, “háček”, in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, page 193:]
  • 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). [1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum, William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide, 2nd edition, page 19:]
  • Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure.
  • Lay out our golden wedges to the view,
  • That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:]
  • He's got some decent wedge.
  • I made a big fat wedge from that job.
  • The girl stopped short off and searched the sky for a wedge of geese. [1924, George Marsh, The Valley of Voices, Hodder and Stoughton, page 351:]
  • A screaming wedge of birds wheeled above me, then winged off across the darkening water [1991, William F. Nolan, “Dark Bedfellows: The Horrors in My Life”, in Weird Tales 302, number Fall 1991, page 14:]
  • One day while on the sandy plain near the coast, my attention was attracted by a flock of about twenty very large birds, in the form of a wedge flying in the direction of the lagoon which separates the two parts of the island. [1903, Austin Hobart Clark, Notes on the Habits of Certain Venezuelan Birds, page 292:]
  • I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
  • She hoped it wasn't a meatball wedge, because there's so much garlic in school meatballs that it might make my breath smell and knock the agent out of his chair. [1983, Marlene Fanta Shyer, Adorable Sunday, Scholastic:]
  • Most people realize there are a lot of different names for that type of sandwich, so Scalone wondered what was so funny about wedge? [2019 October 10, Mark Lungariello, “It's called a wedge in Westchester: Not a hoagie, sub or a grinder”, in The Journal News:]

Etymology

From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz. See: Middle English Nouns 'wegge'.

Verbs referencing "wedge"

French Nouns wedge, German Nouns Wecken, Swedish Nouns vigg, Finnish Nouns vaaja, German Nouns Weck, German Nouns Wecke.