Wedge

wedge



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楔子

導致分裂的事物



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–noun 

1. a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def. 3b). 



2. a piece of anything of like shape: a wedge of [pie].  



3. a cuneiform (楔形文字) character or stroke of this shape.

4. Meteorology. (formerly) an elongated (極其瘦長) area of relatively high pressure. 



cuneiform

[kyoo-nee-uh-fawrm]



5. something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.: The [quarrel] drove a wedge into the party organization.  



6. Military. (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy. 

7. Golf. a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, esp. out of sand traps and high grass.

8. Optics. optical wedge. 

9. haček. 

10. Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich.

11. a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel. 



–verb (used with object) 

12. to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often fol. by open, apart, etc.): to wedge [open] a log. 

13. to insert or fix with a wedge.

14. to pack or fix tightly: to wedge clothes [into] a suitcase. 

15. to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge: He wedged himself [through] the narrow opening. 

16. Ceramics. (製陶業) to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.

17. to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw. 



 　

He seems intrigued by variety, and has made documentaries on the boxer Jose Torres and on a wood block artist, has worked in ceramics, directed opera, staged tea ceremonies, and directed seven other feature films.





–verb (used without object) 

18. to force a way like a wedge (usually fol. by in, into, through, etc.): The box won't wedge [into] such a narrow space. 





 　

The slashing need not immediately [concern] us. The teenage girl who hemorrhages is raced to a hospital and dies in childbirth in the arms of a midwife named Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts). Fiercely determined to protect the helpless surviving infant, she uses her Russian-born mother and uncle (Sinead Cusack and Jerzy Skolimowski) to translate the dead girl's diary, and it [leads] her to a restaurant run by Semyon (Armin Mueller-Stahl), the head of the mafia family. Her uncle begs her to go nowhere near that world.



Naomi Watts, playing an Anglicized second-generation immigrant, has no idea at first what she has gotten herself into, and why the diary is of [vital] importance to these people. All she cares about is the baby, but she learns fast that the baby's life and her own are both at great risk. In fact, her entry into that world has driven a wedge into it that sets everybody at odds and challenges long-held assumptions.





board-and-batten

template 

Such is the [template] to which Verhoeven [cleaves] 



augar & auger (a tool for boring holes)

funnel

They funneled all income [into] research projects.

It also will be funneled [through] IFC's exclusive video rental deal 

Pallet  





altercation

bicker

engage in petulant or peevish argument

to flicker, glitter

The [two] were always bickering. a [stream] bickering down the valley. 

The [sun] bickered through the trees.

She hitches a ride with the professor and Marianne, as do a ceaselessly [bickering] married couple.

Raucous