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 drivingforce.
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.
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 largesandwich 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 broadsole
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"
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
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.
Definitions of wedge 
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
