The difference between Submarine and Wedge

When used as nouns, submarine means a boat that can go underwater, whereas wedge means one of the simple machines.

When used as verbs, submarine means to operate or serve on a submarine, whereas wedge means to support or secure using a wedge.

Submarine is also adjective with the meaning: undersea.

check bellow for the other definitions of Submarine and Wedge

  1. Submarine as an adjective:

    Undersea.

  2. Submarine as an adjective:

    Hidden or undisclosed.

    Examples:

    "a submarine patent"

  3. Submarine as an adjective (baseball):

    Of a pitch, thrown with the hand lower than the elbow.

  1. Submarine as a noun:

    A boat that can go underwater.

  2. Submarine as a noun:

    A kind of sandwich made in a long loaf of bread.

  3. Submarine as a noun (baseball):

    Pitch delivered with an underhand motion.

  4. Submarine as a noun:

    Any submarine plant or animal.

  5. Submarine as a noun (informal):

    A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.

  1. Submarine as a verb (intransitive):

    To operate or serve on a submarine.

  2. Submarine as a verb (transitive):

    To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.

  3. Submarine as a verb (intransitive, sometimes, figurative):

    To sink or submerge oneself.

  1. Wedge as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

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

  2. Wedge as a noun:

    A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.

    Examples:

    "Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?"

    "We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza."

  3. Wedge as a noun (geometry):

    A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

  4. Wedge as a noun (figurative):

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

  5. Wedge as a noun (archaic):

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

  6. Wedge as a noun (golf):

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

  7. Wedge as a noun:

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

  8. Wedge as a noun:

    One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

  9. Wedge as a noun (colloquial, British):

    A quantity of money.

    Examples:

    "I made a big fat wedge from that job."

  10. Wedge as a noun (typography, US):

  11. Wedge as a noun (phonetics):

    The character ⟨⟩, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

  12. Wedge as a noun (mathematics):

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

  13. Wedge as a noun (meteorology):

    a wedge tornado

  1. Wedge as a verb:

    To support or secure using a wedge.

    Examples:

    "I wedged open the window with a screwdriver."

  2. Wedge as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To force into a narrow gap.

    Examples:

    "He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa."

    "I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully."

  3. Wedge as a verb:

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

  4. Wedge as a verb (computing, informal, intransitive):

    Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

    Examples:

    "My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update."

  1. Wedge as a noun (UK, Cambridge University slang):

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

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