A machine for compressing.
A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
To abridge.
To make digital information smaller by encoding it using fewer bits.
To be pressed together or folded by compression into a more economic, easier format.
To make smaller; to press or squeeze together, or to make something occupy a smaller space or volume.
To condense into a more economic, easier format.
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 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.
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).
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.