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 two phraseological units in which the word is present will be indicated.
Many interpretations
The general original 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 given below:
- A tool made of hard material, oblong in shape and tapering from end to end. Has two faces that intersect at right angles to form an edge or edge.
- In military affairs, a wedge is a formation in a medieval army. His goal is to break through the enemy formation.
- Also in the military, but in a figurative sense. A group of troops that breaks through the enemy's front in a narrow area and deepens into it in a narrow triangle.
- In anatomy, a wedge is a region in the cerebral cortex. She islocated in the occipital lobe, or rather, between two grooves: the parietal-occipital and spur.
- A drawing of a flock of birds in flight, which looks like two straight lines intersecting at an acute angle.
- In agriculture, a section of a field where a homogeneous crop is sown.
- Insert between pieces of clothing, as well as a piece of fabric in the shape of an elongated triangle.
- In printing industry, a wedge is a linotype set, which is a space element with a variable width consisting of several parts.
- Stupor, dumbfounded - figuratively.
- Regional word for an arrow, as well as a piece of land located at a place where rivers merge or where they flow into the sea, into a lake.
- Technical and colloquial is the same as jamming.
Geographical objects
Russian city located in the Moscow region. It is the administrative center in the urban district of Klin, a settlement of military prowess. It has about eighty thousand inhabitants. Located on the banks of the Sestra, 67 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road.
Names of a number of small settlements located in Russia, Belarus, Slovakia and Ukraine.
An island located in the Akhmatova Bay, in its eastern part. It belongs to the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. Administratively, it is assigned to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, to the Taimyr Dolgano-Nenetsky District.
The light came together like a wedge: the meaning of the expression
When they say this phrase, they havemean the following. As a rule, we are talking about some person or object that a person cannot do without. Or maybe it just seems to him.
For example, a girl saw a fashionable handbag in the store that matches her new dress and shoes very well. But the whole snag is that the price of this handbag, as they say, “bites”. In this regard, the girlfriends dissuade the girl from buying, advising her to buy another one that she can afford. But everything is useless. "I just want this one!" the stubborn exclaims.
Or another example, when a young man is in love with a girl who does not reciprocate his feelings. He has no prospects in this regard. Neither beautiful courtship, nor promises of a happy family life can help in this situation. The guy ignores the exhortations of friends and relatives to calm down and look for another object of adoration and is not going to back down.
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 "They knock out a wedge with a wedge": meaning and synonyms
This idiom also belongs to colloquial speech and expresses expression. According to its call, the result of an 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 a log, which is great for kindling, with a wooden wedge. A triangular piece of wood was driven into the gap left by the axe. Sometimes she got bogged down, and then she was pulled out with another wedge.
Synonyms for the expression are:
- like is treated with like;
- only the wax in the candle;
- where you fell, spit there;
- only light in the window;
- dashing dashing beat:
- what hurts, so 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 accommodating girlfriend, and they agree to this, then the considered expression and the given synonyms can be applied.
