boulder vs wedge

boulder

verb
  • To engage in bouldering. 

noun
  • A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale 

  • A large marble, in children's games. 

  • A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering. 

  • A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land. 

wedge

verb
  • To cleave with a wedge. 

  • 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 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. 

noun
  • A háček. 

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

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

  • 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). 

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