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Wedge vs. Chock — What's the Difference?

Wedge vs. Chock — What's the Difference?

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Wedge

A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane, and one of the six simple machines. It can be used to separate two objects or portions of an object, lift up an object, or hold an object in place.

Chock

A block or wedge placed under something else, such as a wheel, to keep it from moving.

Wedge

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.

Chock

(Nautical) A heavy fitting of metal or wood with two jaws curving inward, through which a rope or cable may be run.

Wedge

Something shaped like a wedge
A wedge of pie.
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Chock

To fit with or secure by a chock
The plane's wheels were chocked and chained down.

Wedge

A wedge-shaped formation, as in ground warfare.

Chock

(Nautical) To place (a boat) on blocks or wedges.

Wedge

Something that intrudes and causes division or disruption
His nomination drove a wedge into party unity.

Chock

As close as possible
Had to stand chock up against the railing.

Wedge

Something that forces an opening or a beginning
A wedge in the war on poverty.

Chock

Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

Wedge

(Meteorology) See ridge.

Chock

(nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.

Wedge

(Sports) An iron golf club with a very slanted face, used to lift the ball sharply upward, as from sand.

Chock

(obsolete) An encounter.

Wedge

A shoe having a heel that extends across the shank to the half sole, forming a continuous undersurface. Also called wedgie.

Chock

(transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.

Wedge

Downstate New York See submarine sandwich.

Chock

To fill up, as a cavity.

Wedge

One of the various triangular marks that are the basic structural elements of cuneiform writing symbols.

Chock

(nautical) To insert a line in a chock.

Wedge

(Sports) In snow skiing, the snowplow.

Chock

(obsolete) To encounter.

Wedge

To split or force apart with or as if with a wedge
Wedged the board away from the stud.
Neighbors who were wedged apart by a dispute.

Chock

To make a dull sound.

Wedge

To fix in place or tighten with a wedge
Wedged the window frame to be level.

Chock

(nautical) Entirely; quite.

Wedge

To crowd or squeeze into a limited space
Wedged the books into the backpack.

Chock

To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch; as, to chock a wheel or cask.

Wedge

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.
Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.

Chock

To fill up, as a cavity.

Wedge

A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza.

Chock

To encounter.

Wedge

(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

Chock

A wedge, or block made to fit in any space which it is desired to fill, esp. something to steady a cask or other body, or prevent it from moving, by fitting into the space around or beneath it.

Wedge

(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends. Category:en:Shapes

Chock

A heavy casting of metal, usually fixed near the gunwale. It has two short horn-shaped arms curving inward, between which ropes or hawsers may pass for towing, mooring, etc.

Wedge

(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.

Chock

An encounter.

Wedge

(archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

Chock

Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

Wedge

A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

Chock

A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

Wedge

(golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

Chock

Secure with chocks

Wedge

One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

Chock

Support on chocks;
Chock the boat

Wedge

(obsolete) An ingot.

Chock

As completely as possible;
It was chock-a-block full

Wedge

Silver or items made of silver collectively.

Wedge

A quantity of money.
I made a big fat wedge from that job.

Wedge

A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.

Wedge

One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.

Wedge

Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.

Wedge

A háček.

Wedge

(phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

Wedge

(mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

Wedge

(music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.

Wedge

(meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.

Wedge

(meteorology) A wedge tornado.

Wedge

(finance) 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).

Wedge

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

Wedge

(transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.

Wedge

(ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.

Wedge

(transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.

Wedge

(transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

Wedge

Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.

Wedge

(transitive) To cleave with a wedge.

Wedge

(transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.

Wedge

(transitive) To shape into a wedge.

Wedge

A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

Wedge

A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

Wedge

A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.

Wedge

Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
In warlike muster they appear,In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

Wedge

The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; - so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

Wedge

A golf club having an iron head with the face nearly horizontal, used for lofting the golf ball at a high angle, as when hitting the ball out of a sand trap or the rough.

Wedge

To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.

Wedge

To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
Among the crowd in the abbey where a fingerCould not be wedged in more.
He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth.

Wedge

To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.

Wedge

To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.

Wedge

To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.

Wedge

To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.

Wedge

Any shape that is triangular in cross section

Wedge

A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

Wedge

A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation

Wedge

A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe

Wedge

(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole

Wedge

Something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them

Wedge

A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

Wedge

Fix, force, or implant;
Lodge a bullet in the table

Wedge

Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space;
I squeezed myself into the corner

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