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Definition: WEDGING |
WEDGINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Wedge |
Date "WEDGING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. A method used in quarrying to obtain large, regular blocks of building stone, such as syenite, granite, marble, and sandstone. In this method, a row of holes is drilled, either by hand or by pneumatic drill, close to each other to create a longitudinal crevice. A gently sloping steel wedge is driven into this crevice. Usually several wedges are driven, and the block of stone can be detached without shattering b. The act of changing the course of a borehole by using a deflecting wedge. Syn:whipstocking c. The lodging of two or more wedge-shaped pieces of core inside a core barrel and therefore blocking it d. The material, moss, or wood used to render a shaft lining tight e. The splitting, breaking, or forcing apart of a rock as if by a wedge, such as by the growth of salt or mineral crystal in interstices; specif.frost wedging. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: WEDGING |
| English words defined with "WEDGING": Foxtail wedging. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WEDGING": blockmaking ♦ cantilever grizzly, COKE LOADER ♦ discontinuous ring ♦ frost wedging ♦ incomplete ring ♦ mineral wedging ♦ opening shot, open-top tubbing ♦ partial ring, plughole stopping, pretest ♦ RACKET STRINGER ♦ shaft set, suspended tubbing ♦ taper bit, tension jack ♦ wedge guide, wedging and blocking, wedging bit, wedging curb, wedging down, wedging ring, wedging shot ♦ zona di addensamento urbano, zona di inglobamento urbano. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | You see we have been wedging one leg with paper. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "WEDGING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "WEDGING" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "WEDGING": Foxtail wedging ♦ frost wedging ♦ wedging ring. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
table wedging | 2 |
wedging | 2 |
ice wedging | 2 |
clay wedging | 2 |
camshaft timing wedging | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WEDGING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 楔住 (Wedged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skævvinkelhed, skævhed (bulging, distortion, skew, skewness, warpage, warping), befaestigelse ved hjaelp af kiler (keying), afstivning (brace, bracing, excavated wall, keying, keys, propping, reinforcement, retaining, shoring, stiffener, stiffening, strutting, supporting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vastzetten met spieën of keggen (keying), vastwiggen (keying), opzetten (pad, spread out, stuff, swell, tousle, upholster), niet haaks. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pakkasrapautuminen (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, frost wedging, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hors d'équerre, calage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | keilend, einzwängend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφήνωση (keying, scotching), ζύμωμα (mastication, pasting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengganjalan (propping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fuori squadro, cassa da morto (coffin), calettamento (keying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 割込み (cutting in line, interrupt, interruption, muscling in on, sharing a theater box, wedging oneself in), 割り込み (cutting in line, interrupt, interruption, muscling in on, sharing a theater box, wedging oneself in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | わりこみ (cutting in line, interrupt, interruption, muscling in on, sharing a theater box, wedging oneself in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 쐐기로 고정. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jingey (cram, crowd, crowd up, crowding, crush, embed, jam, let in, move along, press, press forward, quoin, ram home, shove, shove forward, shoving, throng, thronging, wedge; indentation), jeenysey (chock up, steady, wedge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | edgingway gelivação (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, frost wedging, gelifraction, gelivation), anel de crescimento descontínuo (discontinuous ring, incomplete ring, partial ring, wedging ring). (various references) fuera de escuadra, desescuadrado del azulejo, calaje (keying). (various references) frostvittring (congelifraction, frost blasting, frost bursting, frost prying, frost rending, frost riving, frost shattering, frost splitting, frost weathering, frost wedging, gelifraction, gelivation). (various references) заклинювання. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"WEDGING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: weding, wenging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-i-n-w" | |
-1 letter: dewing, edging, wigged, winged. | |
-2 letters: deign, dinge, dwine, widen, wined. | |
-3 letters: deni, dine, ding, gied, gien, nide, wend, wide, wind, wine, wing. | |
-4 letters: den, dew, die, dig, din, egg, end, eng, ged, gen, gid, gie, gig, gin, new, wed, wen, wig, win. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, en, id, in, ne, we. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 44 47 49 4E 47 |
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