almond vs wedge

almond

noun
  • A type of tree nut. 

  • Prunus dulcis var. amara, bitter almond, a variety that only produces bitter fruits 

  • Flavor or other characteristics of almond. 

  • The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour. 

  • Prunus japonica, flowering almond, an ornamental shrub in family Rosaceae 

  • The color of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown. 

  • Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil. 

  • Brabejum stellatifolium or bitter almond, in family Proteaceae 

  • Prunus andersonii, desert almond, a North American shrub in family Rosaceae 

  • A small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus amygdalus, that produces predominantly sweet almonds. 

  • Terminalia catappa, Indian almond or tropical almond, in family Combretaceae 

  • Prunus fasciculata, desert range almond or wild almond, North American shrub in family Rosaceae 

adj
  • Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut. 

wedge

noun
  • A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape. 

  • A háček. 

  • The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos. 

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

  • A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas. 

  • A quantity of money. 

  • The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel. 

  • A wedge tornado. 

  • A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault. 

  • One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus. 

  • A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation. 

  • One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes. 

  • A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll. 

  • A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories. 

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

  • 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 hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo. 

  • Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things. 

  • A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge). 

verb
  • To support or secure using a wedge. 

  • To force or drive with a wedge. 

  • Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state. 

  • To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass. 

  • To cleave with a wedge. 

  • To shape into a wedge. 

  • 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. 

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