wedge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.
Inflected forms:
form: wedges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wedges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wedging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wedged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wedged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
gloss: A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza, and an iceberg wedge as our side salad.
gloss: Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: wedge issue, salami tactics, culture wars
drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]
It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.
gloss: A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.
gloss: An ingot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure.
Lay out our golden wedges to the view,
That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.
gloss: Silver or items made of silver collectively.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: A quantity of money.
pos: noun
tags: UK
broadly
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: He's got some decent wedge.
I made a big fat wedge from that job.
gloss: A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
pos: noun
tags: New-York
US
countable
regional
uncountable
examples: I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
She hoped it wasn't a meatball wedge, because there's so much garlic in school meatballs that it might make my breath smell and knock the agent out of his chair.
Most people realize there are a lot of different names for that type of sandwich, so Scalone wondered what was so funny about wedge?
gloss: One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.
The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.
The háček or ‘wedge’ ⟨ˇ⟩ is a diacritic commonly used in Slavic orthographies. […] As a tone mark the wedge is used iconically for a falling-rising tone as in Chinese Pinyin.
gloss: Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Turned V is referred to as “Wedge” by some phoneticians, but this seems inadvisable to us, because the haček accent (ˇ) is also called that in names like Wedge C for (č).
gloss: Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wedge tornado.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To support or secure using a wedge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
"Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
gloss: To force into a narrow gap.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.
During [Tucker] Carlson’s keynote, he wedged sneers at his critics for crying “racist!” in between racist remarks about [Ilhan] Omar, jeremiads against the media (“I know there’s a bunch of reporters here, so . . . screw you”), and an attack on Elizabeth Warren and her donors (“She’s a tragedy, because she’s now obsessed with racism, which is why the finance world supports her”)—all to gleeful applause.
gloss: To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
gloss: To cleave with a wedge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To force or drive with a wedge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To shape into a wedge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: turned v
Derived words: accretionary wedge
approach wedge
cross-wedge
drive a wedge
drive a wedge between
edge-of-the-wedge theorem
flying wedge
fox wedge
gap wedge
hand wedge
ice wedge
lob wedge
pitching wedge
potato wedge
salt wedge
sand wedge
shoe wedge
Sikkim wedge-billed babbler
small end of the wedge
spherical wedge
substorm current wedge
tax wedge
Texas wedge
thin edge of the wedge
thin end of the wedge
wedge-and-dash
wedge-feeder
wedge gage
wedge gauge
wedge gear
wedge issue
wedgelike
wedge of circles
wedge pea
wedge politics
wedge prism
wedge product
wedge salad
wedge-shaped
wedge shell
wedge sum
wedge-tailed eagle
wedge tomb
wedge-writing
wedge up
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: vendel
lang: Finnish
word: aura
lang: Greek
word: σμήνος
roman: smínos
lang: Italian
word: formazione a cuneo di oche
lang: Italian
word: cigni
lang: Italian
word: anatre
lang: Polish
word: klucz
lang: Quechua
word: ananinami
lang: Romanian
word: cârd
lang: Russian
word: клин
roman: klin
lang: Spanish
word: bandada formada en V
lang: Swedish
word: plog