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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 character or stroke of this shape.
4.
Meteorology. (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure.
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, especially out of sand traps and high grass.
8.
Optics. optical wedge.
9.
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 followed 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. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
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wedge
is always a great word to know.
So is warm front. Does it mean:
| an ice fog caused by extremely cold air flowing over a body of comparatively warm water, especially in polar regions |
| a transition zone between a mass of warm air and the colder air it is replacing |
verb (used without object)
18.
to force a way like a wedge (usually followed by in, into, through, etc.): The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English wegge (noun), Old English wecg; cognate with dialectal German Weck (Old High German wecki), Old Norse veggr
before 900; Middle English wegge (noun), Old English wecg; cognate with dialectal German Weck (Old High German wecki), Old Norse veggr
Related forms
wedge·like, adjective
un·wedge, verb (used with object), un·wedged, un·wedg·ing.
Synonyms
14. cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.
14. cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.
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wedge (wɛdʒ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | 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 |
| 2. | any formation, structure, or substance in the shape of a wedge: a wedge of cheese |
| 3. | something such as an idea, action, etc, that tends to cause division |
| 4. | a shoe with a wedge heel |
| 5. | golf a club with a face angle of more than 50°, used for bunker shots (sand wedge) or pitch shots (pitching wedge) |
| 6. | a wedge-shaped extension of the high pressure area of an anticyclone, narrower than a ridge |
| 7. | mountaineering a wedge-shaped device, formerly of wood, now usually of hollow steel, for hammering into a crack to provide an anchor point |
| 8. | any of the triangular characters used in cuneiform writing |
| 9. | (formerly) a body of troops formed in a V-shape |
| 10. | 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 |
| 11. | slang (Brit) a bribe |
| 12. | thin end of the wedge anything unimportant in itself that implies the start of something much larger |
| —vb | |
| 13. | (tr) to secure with or as if with a wedge |
| 14. | to squeeze or be squeezed like a wedge into a narrow space |
| 15. | (tr) to force apart or divide with or as if with a wedge |
| [Old English wecg; related to Old Saxon weggi, Old High German wecki, Old Norse veggr wall] | |
| 'wedgelike | |
| —adj | |
| 'wedgy | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
wedge
O.E. wecg "a wedge," from P.Gmc. *wagjaz (cf. O.N. veggr, M.Du. wegge, Du. wig, O.H.G. weggi "wedge," Ger. Weck "wedge-shaped bread roll"), of unknown origin. The verb is recorded from 1440. Wedgie in the underwear prank sense is attested by 1970s. Wedge issue is attested from 1999.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
The computer then sits astride the two ends, the triangular wedge formed by the fold keeping the hot base off your legs.
Cut a piece into a rectangle, wedge it into the seam, and then side it along the seam.
In summer you can find sandals with a small or wedge heel.
Starlight or moonlight or firelight or a wedge of kitchen light beneath the bedroom door.
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