Wedge is a word that has a very large number of meanings. It is also used in many proverbs, sayings, stable combinations. Further, detailed information will be provided that this is a wedge and the meaning of the two phraseological units in which the word is present is indicated.
Many interpretations
The general initial meaning of the word "wedge" is an acute angle or any object that looks like an elongated, pointed triangle. But over time, other shades of interpretation appeared, which are listed below:
- A tool made of solid material, having an oblong shape and tapering from end to end. It has two faces that intersect at right angles and form an edge or rib.
- In military affairs, a wedge is a construction in a medieval army. His goal is a breakthrough of the enemy system.
- Also the military, but in a figurative sense. A group of troops that breaks through the enemy’s front in a narrow section and penetrates into it with a narrow triangle.
- In anatomy, a wedge refers to a region in the cerebral cortex. It is located in the occipital lobe, or rather, between two grooves: the parietal-occipital and spur.
- A drawing of a flock of birds in flight, having the form of two straight lines intersecting at an acute angle.
- In agriculture, a section of a field in which a homogeneous crop is planted.
- An insert between pieces of clothing, as well as a flap of fabric in the shape of an elongated triangle.
- In printing, a wedge is a linotypic set, which consists of several parts of a blank element with variable width.
- Stupor, drowsiness - figuratively.
- The regional word for the arrow, as well as part of the land located in the place where the rivers merge or where they flow into the sea, into the lake.
- Technical and colloquial - the same as jamming.
Geographical features
Russian city located in the Moscow region. It is the administrative center in the urban district of Klin, a settlement of military valor. It has about eighty thousand inhabitants. Located on the banks of the Sisters, 67 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road.
The names of a number of small settlements located in Russia, Belarus, Slovakia and Ukraine.
The island, located in the Gulf of Akhmatov, in its eastern part. It belongs to the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. It is administratively assigned to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, to the Taimyr Dolgan-Nenets District.
Light converges: meaning of expression
When pronouncing this phrase, they mean the following. As a rule, we are talking about some kind of person or object, without which a person can not do without. Or it just seems to him.
For example, a girl saw a fashionable handbag in a store that fits very well with her new dress and shoes. But the whole snag is that the price of this handbag, as they say, is “biting”. In this regard, girlfriends dissuade the girl from buying, advising them to purchase another, which will be "affordable" for her. But all is useless. “I want only this!” - exclaims the stubborn.
Or another example, when a young man is in love with a girl who does not reciprocate with him. He has no prospects in this regard. Neither beautiful courtship, nor promises of a happy family life can help in this situation. The admonitions of friends and relatives to calm down and look for another object for adoration, the guy ignores and is not going to retreat.
It is in such and similar situations that the indicated expression is used. As a rule, it is used in colloquial speech and has an expressive coloring.
Phraseologism "Wedge kick out a wedge": meaning and synonyms
This phraseological unit also belongs to colloquial speech and expresses expression. According to the appeal laid down in it, the result of some action should be eliminated by the same means by which it was committed.
There is a version that the expression is associated with the splitting of logs, which is great for kindling, with a wooden wedge. A triangular piece of wood was driven into the gap left by the ax. Sometimes she got stuck, and then she was taken out with the help of another wedge.
Synonyms of expression are:
- like is treated like;
- only the wax in the candle;
- where he fell, spit there;
- only the light in the window;
- dashing dashing hit:
- what hurt, the more they treat.
If the girl from the previous example is offered another handbag, even more beautiful, but cheaper, and the guy finds a new, more compliant girlfriend, and they agree to this, then the above expression and the above synonyms can be applied.