wedge

Plural: wedges

Noun

• any shape that is triangular in cross section
• 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
• a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
• a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
• (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
• something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
• a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
• One of the simple machines; 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.
• A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
• Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
• A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
• A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
• A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
• A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
• A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
• One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
• An ingot.
• Silver or items made of silver collectively.
• A quantity of money.
• A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
• One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
• Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
• A háček.
• Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
• The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
• Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
• The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
• Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
• A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
• A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
• A wedge tornado.
• A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
• The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.

Verb

Verb Forms: wedged, wedging, wedges

• To force into a narrow space; to split with a wedge.
• put, fix, force, or implant
• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
• To support or secure using a wedge.
• To force into a narrow gap.
• To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
• To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
• Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
• To cleave with a wedge.
• To force or drive with a wedge.
• To shape into a wedge.

Examples

• Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
• He had to wedge ’XENON’ into a tight spot, but it was worth the Scrabble points.
• He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
• He's got some decent wedge.
• I made a big fat wedge from that job.
• I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
• I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.
• I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
• My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
• Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
• We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza.

Synonyms

bomber, chock, Cuban sandwich, cuneus, deposit, force, grinder, hacek, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, lodge, poor boy, squeeze, stick, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge heel, wedge shape, zep, skein, turned v, wooden wedge

Antonyms

dislodge

Related Words

wooden spoon