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Wedged
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
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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.
EXPANDsomething 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.
COLLAPSEa 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.
EXPANDCeramics. to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
17.
COLLAPSEto 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 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), -wedged, -wedg·ing.
Synonyms
14. cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.
14. cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.
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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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wedged definition
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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