Phrase Hound found 21 phrases and 3 compound words that contain wedges. The most common are listed below. Open wedges in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 21
- potato wedgesplural of potato wedge: An irregular wedge-shaped slice of potato, often large and unpeeled, either baked or fried.
- approach wedgesplural of approach wedge: A golf club designed to fill the distance gap between a pitching wedge and a sand wedge.
- flying wedgesplural of flying wedge: A formation in which a group travels so that its components form a triangular shape.
- fox wedgesplural of fox wedge: A wedge for expanding the split end of a bolt, cotter, dowel, tenon, or other piece, to fasten the end in a hole or mortise and prevent withdrawal. The wedge abuts on the bottom of the hole and the piece is driven down …
- gap wedgesplural of gap wedge: A golf club designed to fill the distance gap between a pitching wedge and a sand wedge.
- hand wedgesplural of hand wedge: A golf player's hand, when used to cheat by surreptitiously moving the ball to a more advantageous position.
- ice wedgesplural of ice wedge: A vertical wedge of subterranean ice.
- lob wedgesplural of lob wedge: A golf club (an iron) which provides maximum loft.
- pitching wedgesplural of pitching wedge: An iron designed for pitch shots
- salt wedgesplural of salt wedge: A wedge-shaped intrusion of salt water underneath fresh water, typically in a nontidal estuary.
- sand wedgesplural of sand wedge: A golf club (an iron) with a heavy flange on the bottom, ideal for bunker shots.
- shoe wedgesplural of shoe wedge: A wedge-shaped shoe insert to be affixed inside any footwear to make the wearer look taller.
- spherical wedgesplural of spherical wedge: A volume of a sphere lying between two vertical planes through the centre of the sphere.
- tax wedgesplural of tax wedge: The difference between the price that includes all taxes and the untaxed price of a good, particularly the difference between the employer's labour cost and the employee's take-home pay.
- Texas wedgesplural of Texas wedge: The putter, when used to take a shot that is not on the green.
- wedges upthird-person singular simple present indicative of wedge up: To fill or block up with wedges.
- wooden wedgesplural of wooden wedge: Synonym of wedge: the person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- wedges of circlesplural of wedge of circles: A graph with only one vertex.
- wedges-and-dashesplural of wedge-and-dash: A method of representing the three-dimensional structure of a molecule in which simple lines represent bonds in the plane of the image, wedge-shaped lines represent bonds towards the viewer, and dashed lines …
- accretionary wedgesplural of accretionary wedge: The accumulation of surface sediment formed between a subducting oceanic crustal plate and a continental tectonic plate, as it is scraped from off the top of the oceanic crustal plate.
- substorm current wedgesplural of substorm current wedge: A sudden disruption of an azimuthally confined section of enhanced current across a magnetotail and its diversion to the auroral ionosphere via field-aligned currents.
Compound words 3
- nanowedgesplural of nanowedge: nanoscale wedge
- saltwedgesplural of saltwedge: A wedge-shaped intrusion of salt water underneath fresh water, typically in a nontidal estuary.
- stepwedgesplural of stepwedge: An aluminium block, of varying thickness, used to standardise radiographic exposures