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wedge
[wej]
noun
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.
a piece of anything of like shape.
a wedge of pie.
a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.
Meteorology., (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure.
something that serves to part, split, divide, etc..
The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization.
Military., (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy.
Golf., a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, especially out of sand traps and high grass.
Optics., optical wedge.
Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island., a hero sandwich.
a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.
verb (used with object)
to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often followed by open, apart, etc.).
to wedge open a log.
to insert or fix with a wedge.
to pack or fix tightly.
to wedge clothes into a suitcase.
to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge.
He wedged himself through the narrow opening.
Ceramics., to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw.
verb (used without object)
to force a way like a wedge (usually followed by in, into, through, etc.).
The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.
wedge
/ wɛdʒ /
noun
a block of solid material, esp wood or metal, that is shaped like a narrow V in cross section and can be pushed or driven between two objects or parts of an object in order to split or secure them
any formation, structure, or substance in the shape of a wedge
a wedge of cheese
something such as an idea, action, etc, that tends to cause division
a shoe with a wedge heel
golf a club with a face angle of more than 50°, used for bunker shots ( sand wedge ) or pitch shots ( pitching wedge )
a wedge-shaped extension of the high pressure area of an anticyclone, narrower than a ridge
mountaineering a wedge-shaped device, formerly of wood, now usually of hollow steel, for hammering into a crack to provide an anchor point
any of the triangular characters used in cuneiform writing
(formerly) a body of troops formed in a V-shape
photog a strip of glass coated in such a way that it is clear at one end but becomes progressively more opaque towards the other end: used in making measurements of transmission density
slang, a bribe
anything unimportant in itself that implies the start of something much larger
verb
(tr) to secure with or as if with a wedge
to squeeze or be squeezed like a wedge into a narrow space
(tr) to force apart or divide with or as if with a wedge
Other Word Forms
- wedgelike adjective
- unwedge verb (used with object)
- wedgy adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of wedge1
Word History and Origins
Origin of wedge1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
He writes of how, “like hungry street cats,” they coax from their captors “a wedge of clementine, a single popcorn.”
It was a common scene in the slums of the Cambodian capital: warrens of huts wedged between garbage-strewn streets; tiny children begging for food at nearly every corner.
The most recent democratic reversal is in Nepal, a landlocked Himalayan nation of some 30 million wedged between India and China.
"Moreover, it would strengthen India's position in Afghanistan and India would try to drive a wedge between Taliban and Pakistan."
“The goat was very wedged down in there,” said Cal Fire Engineer Jason Robertson.
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