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Definition of 'Wedge'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) wedge
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.

2.  wedge
a piece of anything of like shape:
a wedge of pie.

3.  wedge
a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.

4.  wedge
something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.:
The quarrel drove a wedge between them.

5.  wedge
an iron-headed golf club with a nearly horizontal face, used for lofting the ball.

6.  wedge
a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.

7.  wedge
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8.  wedge
Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island. a hero sandwich.

9. (v.t.) wedge
to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often fol. by open, apart, etc.).

10.  wedge
to insert or fix with a wedge.

11.  wedge
to pack or fix tightly; stuff.

12.  wedge
to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge.

13. (v.i.) wedge
to force a way like a wedge (usu. fol. by in, into, through, etc.).

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME wegge (n.), OE wecg, c. OS weggi, OHG wecki, ON veggr)

Definition of 'Wedge'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) wedge, wedge shape, cuneus
any shape that is triangular in cross section

2. (noun) bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep
a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

3. (noun) hacek, wedge
a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation

4. (noun) wedge heel, wedge
a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe

5. (noun) wedge
(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole

6. (noun) wedge
something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them

7. (verb) chock, wedge
a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

8. (verb) lodge, wedge, stick, deposit
put, fix, force, or implant
"lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack"

9. (verb) wedge, squeeze, force
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
"I squeezed myself into the corner"

Definition of 'Wedge'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) wedge
a piece of hard material that is narrow at one end and wide at the other
a wedge under the door to keep it open

2. wedge
sth shaped like a wedge
a lemon wedge

3. (verb) wedge
to push into a small space
The car was wedged between the fence and the pole.

Definition of 'Wedge'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Wedge
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. (noun) Wedge
a solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends

3. (noun) Wedge
a mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form

4. (noun) Wedge
anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form

5. (noun) Wedge
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

6. (verb) Wedge
to cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive

7. (verb) Wedge
to force or drive as a wedge is driven

8. (verb) Wedge
to force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way

9. (verb) Wedge
to press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something

10. (verb) Wedge
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

11. (verb) Wedge
to cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc

Translation of 'Wedge'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of wood or metal, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood etc or in fixing something tightly in place She used a wedge under the door to prevent it swinging shut.
Afrikaans: wig	Arabic: إسْفين	Bulgarian: клин
Brazilian: cunha	Czech: klín(ek)	German: der Keil
Danish: kile	Greek: σφήνα	Spanish: cuña
Estonian: kiil	Farsi: گوه	Finnish: kiila
French: coin; cale	Hebrew: טְרִיז	Hindi: पच्चर
Croatian: klin	Hungarian: ék	Indonesian: baji
Icelandic: fleygur	Italian: cuneo	Japanese: くさび
Korean: 쐐기	Lithuanian: pleištas	Latvian: ķīlis
Malay: baji, pasak	Dutch: wig	Norwegian: kile
Polish: klin	Portuguese: cunha	Romanian: pană (de despicat)
Russian: клин	Slovak: klin; klinový	Slovenian: zagozda
Serbian: klin	Swedish: kil	Thai: ลิ่ม
Turkish: kama, takoz	Taiwanese: 楔	Ukrainian: клин
Urdu: پھانا	Vietnamese: cái nệm	Chinese: 楔
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