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Wedge   /wɛdʒ/   Listen
Wedge

noun
1.
Any shape that is triangular in cross section.  Synonyms: cuneus, wedge shape.
2.
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.  Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, zep.
3.
A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation.  Synonym: hacek.
4.
A heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe.  Synonym: wedge heel.
5.
(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole.
6.
Something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them.
7.
A block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object.  Synonym: chock.
verb
(past & past part. wedged; pres. part. wedging)
1.
Put, fix, force, or implant.  Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick.  "Stick your thumb in the crack"
2.
Squeeze like a wedge into a tight space.  Synonyms: force, squeeze.



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"Wedge" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the Englishman with interest, as he stood before him in his evening dress, broad-shouldered with fine limbs, his clothes fitting well, and looking like a wedge from his broad chest down ...
— A Danish Parsonage • John Fulford Vicary
... the queue who, worn out by hours of waiting in the cold, desired to slip away to a neighbouring tea-shop to get a cup of tea before the court opened, and sternly rebuking enterprising youths who endeavoured to wedge themselves in ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
... our faithful regiments. Their ardor may no longer be curbed in. They entreat permission to commence the attack; And if thou wouldst but give the word of onset They could now charge the enemy in rear, Into the city wedge them, and with ease O'erpower ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... already doing it. The Enterprise had taken damage in the last exchange; Koreff's spectroscopes showed her halo-ed with air and water vapor. Her instruments would be getting the same story from the Nemesis; wedge-shaped segments extending six to eight decks in were sealed off in several places. Then the only thing that could be seen with certainty was the blaze of mutually destroying missiles between. The short-range gun duel began and ended ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper
... both breakfasted in bed, the ingenuity of Ottillie having somewhat mitigated the tray difficulty by a clever adjustment of the wedge-shaped piece of mattress with which Europe elevates its head at night. Molly was just "winding up" a liberal supply of honey, and Rosina was salting her egg, when there came a tap at the door of ...
— A Woman's Will • Anne Warner


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