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wedge

[wej]

noun, verb, wedged, wedg⋅ing.

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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, esp. out of sand traps and high grass.

8.	Optics. optical wedge.

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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. 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.

–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.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME wegge (n.), OE wecg; c. dial. G Weck (OHG wecki), ON veggr

Related forms:

wedgelike, adjective

Synonyms:
14. cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.

Regional variation note:
10. See hero sandwich.

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ha⋅ček

[hah-chek]

–noun

a diacritical mark (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, esp. to indicate that a sound is palatalized.

Also, háček.

Also called wedge.

Origin:
1950–55; < Czech háček, dim. of hák hook < G; see hook

optical wedge

–noun

a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.

Also called wedge.

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ridge (rĭj)

A long, narrow upper section or crest: the ridge of a wave.
A long, narrow chain of hills or mountains. Also called ridgeline.
A long, narrow elevation on the ocean floor.
Meteorology An elongated zone of relatively high atmospheric pressure. Also called wedge.
A long, narrow, or crested part of the body: the ridge of the nose.
The horizontal line formed by the juncture of two sloping planes, especially the line formed by the surfaces at the top of a roof.
A narrow, raised strip, as in cloth or on plowed ground.

v.   ridged, ridg·ing, ridg·es

v.   tr.
To mark with, form into, or provide with ridges.
v.   intr.
To form ridges.

[Middle English rigge, from Old English hrycg; see sker-² in Indo-European roots.]

sub·ma·rine (sŭb'mə-rēn', sŭb'mə-rēn')

Nautical A vessel that is capable of operating submerged. Also called sub¹.
A large sandwich consisting of a long roll split lengthwise and filled with layers of meat, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, and condiments. Also called sub¹; also called regionally Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hoagie, Italian sandwich, poor boy, torpedo, wedge, zep.

adj.  Beneath the surface of the water; undersea.
v.   sub·ma·rined, sub·ma·rin·ing, sub·ma·rines

v.   tr.

To attack by submarine, especially with torpedoes.
Sports To knock down with a blow to the legs.
Baseball To pitch (a ball) with an underhand motion.

v. intr.
To slide, drive, or throw under something.
The long sandwich featuring layers of meat and cheese on a crusty Italian roll or French bread goes by a variety of names. These names are not distributed in a pattern similar to that of other regional words because their use depends on the business and marketing enterprise of the people who create the sandwiches and sell them. Submarine and sub are widespread terms, not assignable to any particular region. Many of the localized terms are clustered in the northeast United States, where the greatest numbers of Italian Americans live. In Maine, it is called an Italian sandwich, befitting its heritage. Elsewhere in New England and in Sacramento, California, it is often called a grinder. New York City knows it as a hero. In the Delaware Valley, including Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, the sandwich is called a hoagie. Speakers in Miami use the name Cuban sandwich. Along the Gulf Coast the same sandwich is often called a poor boy. In New Orleans, a poor boy is likely to be offered in a version featuring fried oysters.

wedge (wěj)

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.
1. Something shaped like a wedge: a wedge of pie.
2. Downstate New York See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.
3. A wedge-shaped formation, as in ground warfare.
4. Something that intrudes and causes division or disruption: His nomination drove a wedge into party unity.
5. Something that forces an opening or a beginning: a wedge in the war on poverty.
1. Something that intrudes and causes division or disruption: His nomination drove a wedge into party unity.
2. Something that forces an opening or a beginning: a wedge in the war on poverty.
Meteorology See ridge.
Sports An iron golf club with a very slanted face, used to lift the ball, as from sand.
One of the triangular characters of cuneiform writing.

v. wedged, wedg·ing, wedg·es

v. tr.

To split or force apart with or as if with a wedge.
To fix in place or tighten with a wedge.
To crowd or squeeze into a limited space.

v. intr.
To become lodged or jammed.

[Middle English wegge, from Old English wecg.]

Wedge

Wedge\, n. [OE. wegge, AS. wecg; akin to D. wig, wigge, OHG. wecki, G. weck a (wedge-shaped) loaf, Icel. veggr, Dan. v[ae]gge, Sw. vigg, and probably to Lith. vagis a peg. Cf. Wigg.]

1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

2. (Geom.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

3. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form. "Wedges of gold." --Shak.

4. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.

In warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. --Milton.

5. The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos; -- so called after a person (Wedgewood) who occupied this position on the first list of 1828. [Cant, Cambridge Univ., Eng.] --C. A. Bristed.

Fox wedge. (Mach. & Carpentry) See under Fox.

Spherical wedge (Geom.), the portion of a sphere included between two planes which intersect in a diameter.

Wedge

Wedge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wedged; p. pr. & vb. n. Wedging.]

1. To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive. "My heart, as wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain." --Shak.

2. To force or drive as a wedge is driven.

Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger Could not be wedged in more. --Shak.

He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth. --Mrs. J. H. Ewing.

3. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way. --Milton.

4. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.

Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast. --Dryden.

5. To fasten with a wedge, or with wedges; as, to wedge a scythe on the snath; to wedge a rail or a piece of timber in its place.

6. (Pottery) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc. --Tomlinson.

Language Translation for : Wedge

Spanish: cuña,

German: der Keil,

Japanese: くさび

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wedge (n.)

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.

Wedge

A technical chart pattern composed of two converging lines connecting a series of peaks and troughs.

Investopedia Commentary

Falling wedges indicate temporary interruptions of upward price rallies. Rising wedges indicate interruptions of a falling price trend. Technical analysts see a 'breakout' of this wedge pattern as either bullish (on a breakout above the upper line) or bearish (on a breakout below the lower line).