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wedged    Audio Help   [wejd] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
having the shape of a wedge.

[Origin: 1545–55; wedge + -ed3]
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wedge    Audio Help   [wej] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, wedged, wedg·ing.
–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.
9.haček.
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]

wedgelike, adjective

14. cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.
10. See hero sandwich.
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wedge    Audio Help   (wěj)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. 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.
  2. Meteorology See ridge.
  3. Sports An iron golf club with a very slanted face, used to lift the ball, as from sand.
  4. One of the triangular characters of cuneiform writing.

v.   wedged, wedg·ing, wedg·es

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

v.   intr.
To become lodged or jammed.


[Middle English wegge, from Old English wecg.]

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wedged    Audio Help   (wějd)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Having the shape of a wedge; thick at one end and tapered at the other.
  2. Stuck; jammed: couldn't remove the wedged quarter from the vending machine.

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wedged

adjective
wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn: impacted

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wedged
1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few things, but not be fully operational. For example, a process may become wedged if it deadlocks with another (but not all instances of wedging are deadlocks). See also gronk, locked up, hosed. 2. Often refers to humans suffering misconceptions. "He's totally wedged - he's convinced that he can levitate through meditation." 3. [Unix] Specifically used to describe the state of a TTY left in a losing state by abort of a screen-oriented program or one that has messed with the line discipline in some obscure way.
There is some dispute over the origin of this term. It is usually thought to derive from a common description of recto-cranial inversion; however, it may actually have originated with older "hot-press" printing technology in which physical type elements were locked into type frames with wedges driven in by mallets. Once this had been done, no changes in the typesetting for that page could be made.
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