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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. Compare machine ( def 3b ).
- 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.
- č.
- 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.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- 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
/ ɛ /
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
- thin end of the wedgeanything 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
Derived Forms
- ˈɱ岵, adjective
- ˈɱ岵ˌ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ɱ岵l adjective
- ܲ·ɱ岵 verb (used with object) unwedged unwedging
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wedge1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wedge1
Idioms and Phrases
see thin edge of the wedge .Example Sentences
Today, they sit 90th - wedged between New Zealand and the Caribbean island of Curacao.
Cameroni De Adams was found three weeks later on Dec. 6 “wedged under miscellaneous items in the vehicle’s middle row,” according to the claim.
Putin says all the Ukrainians have left is a wedge, so why would Russia stop now?
I added a scoop of pistachios — another Italian specialty — and tossed arugula and a wedge of blue cheese into my bag.
Greggs' revenue passed £2bn last year thanks to higher sales of pizzas, chicken goujons and potato wedges, the bakery chain has said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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