cricket vs wedge

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 

  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

wedge

noun
  • One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes. 

  • 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. 

  • 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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