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wedge (mechanical device)

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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.
Stick a wedge under the door, will you? It keeps blowing shut.
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A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?Category:English terms with usage examples#WEDGE

We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza, and an iceberg wedge as our side salad.Category:English terms with usage examples#WEDGE
(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
Near-synonyms: wedge issue, salami tactics, culture wars

drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]Category:English terms with collocations#WEDGE
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 September 2013:
  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.
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(geometry Category:en:Geometry#WEDGE) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.Category:en:Shapes#WEDGE
(architecture Category:en:Architecture#WEDGE) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
(archaic Category:English terms with archaic senses#WEDGE) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
(zoology Category:en:Zoology#WEDGE, collective Category:English collective nouns#WEDGE) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
(golf Category:en:Golf#WEDGE) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- 2010, Sue Limb, Girls, Guilty But Somehow Glorious:
  She was wearing wedges, and I have a horrible suspicion they were her mum's wedges left over from the last century.
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(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#WEDGE) An ingot.
- c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
  Open the Males, yet guard the treaſure ſure.
  Lay out our golden wedges to the view,
  That their reflexions may amaze the Perſeans.
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(obsolete Category:English terms with obsolete senses#WEDGE, slang Category:English slang#WEDGE, uncountable Category:English uncountable nouns#WEDGE, by extension) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
(colloquial Category:English colloquialisms#WEDGE, British Category:British English#WEDGE, countable Category:English countable nouns#WEDGE, uncountable Category:English uncountable nouns#WEDGE, by extension) A quantity of money.
He's got some decent wedge. (uncountable)Category:English terms with usage examples#WEDGE

I made a big fat wedge from that job. (countable)Category:English terms with usage examples#WEDGE
(US Category:American English#WEDGE, regional Category:Regional English#WEDGE, especially Westchester, New York) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
Synonyms: hero sandwich; more at submarine sandwich

I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
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- 1983, Marlene Fanta Shyer, Adorable Sunday, Scholastic:
  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.
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- 2019 October 10, Mark Lungariello, “It's called a wedge in Westchester: Not a hoagie, sub or a grinder”, in The Journal News‎:
  Most people realize there are a lot of different names for that type of sandwich, so Scalone wondered what was so funny about wedge?
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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.
1. (typography Category:en:Typography#WEDGE, US Category:American English#WEDGE) A háček.
  - 1982, Thomas Pyles, John Algeo, The Origins and Development of the English Language, 3rd edition, page 49:
    The wedge is used in Czech and is illustrated by the Czech name for the diacritic, haček.
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  - 1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum, William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide‎, 2nd edition, page xxvi:
    The tilde and the circumflex have a place in the ASCII scheme but the wedge and the umlaut do not.
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  - 1999, Florian Coulmas, “háček”, in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, page 193:
    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.
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2. (phonetics Category:en:Phonetics#WEDGE) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
  - 1996, Geoffrey Keith Pullum, William A. Ladusaw, Phonetic Symbol Guide‎, 2nd edition, page 19:
    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).
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3. (mathematics Category:en:Mathematics#WEDGE) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
4. (music Category:en:Music#WEDGE) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
(meteorology Category:en:Meteorology#WEDGE) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
(meteorology Category:en:Meteorology#WEDGE) A wedge tornado.
(finance Category:en:Finance#WEDGE) 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).

Synonyms

(group of geese): skein
(phonetics: IPA character ⟨ʌ⟩): turned v

Translations

simple machine

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Albanian: pykë (sq) fCategory:Terms with Albanian translations#WEDGE
Altai:
Southern Altai: казык (kazïk)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#WEDGE
Arabic: إِسْفِين m (ʔisfīn)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#WEDGE, وَتِد (ar) m (watid)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#WEDGE, وَتَد (ar) m (watad)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#WEDGE
Egyptian Arabic: سفين m (safīn)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#WEDGE
Armenian: սեպ (hy) (sep)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#WEDGE
Azerbaijani: paz (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#WEDGE
Bashkir: шына (şına)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#WEDGE
Belarusian: клін m (klin)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#WEDGE
Bengali: কীল (bn) (kil)Category:Terms with Bengali translations#WEDGE
Bulgarian: клин (bg) m (klin)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#WEDGE
Burmese: သပ် (my) (sap)Category:Terms with Burmese translations#WEDGE
Catalan: falca (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WEDGE, tascó (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WEDGE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 楔 (zh) (xiē)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#WEDGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WEDGE, 楔子 (zh) (xiēzi)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#WEDGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WEDGE
Czech: klín (cs) mCategory:Terms with Czech translations#WEDGE
Danish: kile cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#WEDGE
Dutch: wig (nl) mCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#WEDGE, spie (nl) fCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#WEDGE
Esperanto: kojno (eo)Category:Terms with Esperanto translations#WEDGE
Estonian: kiil (et)Category:Terms with Estonian translations#WEDGE
Finnish: kiila (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE
French: coin (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#WEDGE (for splitting something), cale (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#WEDGE (for stopping something from moving)
Galician: cuña (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WEDGE, calzo (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WEDGE (for levelling), grillo (gl) mCategory:Terms with Galician translations#WEDGE
Georgian: სოლი (ka) (soli)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#WEDGE
German: Keil (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#WEDGE
Old High German: weggi mCategory:Terms with Old High German translations#WEDGE
Greek: σφήνα (el) f (sfína)Category:Terms with Greek translations#WEDGE
Ancient Greek: σφήν m (sphḗn)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#WEDGE
Greenlandic: quppaqutCategory:Terms with Greenlandic translations#WEDGE
Hebrew: טְרִיז (he) m (t'riz)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#WEDGE
Hindi: कील (hi) f (kīl)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#WEDGE, वैज m (vaij)Category:Terms with Hindi translations#WEDGE
Hungarian: ék (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#WEDGE
Ingrian: klinaCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#WEDGE
Irish: ding fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#WEDGE
Italian: cuneo (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE, bietta (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE, zeppa (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE, fermaporta mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE (doorstop)
Japanese: 楔 (ja) (くさび, kusabi)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#WEDGE
Kalmyk: шаанцг (şaantsg)Category:Terms with Kalmyk translations#WEDGE
Kazakh: сына (syna)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#WEDGE, танап (tanap)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#WEDGE
Khmer: បន្លួញ (km) (bɑnluəñ)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#WEDGE
Korean: 쐐기 (ko) (sswaegi)Category:Terms with Korean translations#WEDGE
Kyrgyz: шынаа (ky) (şınaa)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#WEDGE, казык (ky) (kazık)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#WEDGE
Lao: ຫລິ້ນ (lin)Category:Terms with Lao translations#WEDGE, ສາກ (sāk)Category:Terms with Lao translations#WEDGE
Latin: cuneus mCategory:Terms with Latin translations#WEDGE
Latvian: ķīlis mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#WEDGE
Lithuanian: vagis mCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#WEDGE
Lombard: qignœlCategory:Terms with Lombard translations#WEDGE
Macedonian: клин m (klin)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#WEDGE
Malay: bajiCategory:Terms with Malay translations#WEDGE
Māori: kahiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#WEDGE, matakahiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#WEDGE, mākahiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#WEDGE, tahatitiCategory:Terms with Māori translations#WEDGE (specifically for tightening not splitting)
Middle English: weggeCategory:Terms with Middle English translations#WEDGE
Mongolian: шаантаг (mn) (šaantag)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#WEDGE
Navajo: bee ałkʼíniilkaałíCategory:Terms with Navajo translations#WEDGE (for splitting logs)
Occitan: conh (oc) mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#WEDGE, cunh (oc) mCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#WEDGE
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: клинъ m (klinŭ)Category:Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations#WEDGE
Old East Slavic: клинъ m (klinŭ)Category:Terms with Old East Slavic translations#WEDGE
Old English: wecgCategory:Terms with Old English translations#WEDGE
Old Norse: veggrCategory:Terms with Old Norse translations#WEDGE
Persian: گوه (fa) (gove)Category:Terms with Persian translations#WEDGE
Plautdietsch: Kjiel fCategory:Terms with Plautdietsch translations#WEDGE
Polish: klin (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#WEDGE
Portuguese: cunha (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#WEDGE
Romanian: pană (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#WEDGE
Russian: клин (ru) m (klin)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WEDGE
Serbo-Croatian: klȉn (sh) mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#WEDGE, клин mCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#WEDGE
Sicilian: cugnu (scn) mCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#WEDGE
Slovak: klin mCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#WEDGE
Slovene: klin mCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#WEDGE
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: klin mCategory:Terms with Lower Sorbian translations#WEDGE

Upper Sorbian: klin mCategory:Terms with Upper Sorbian translations#WEDGE
Spanish: cuña (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE
Swedish: kil (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#WEDGE
Tajik: фона (fona)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#WEDGE, биғоз (biġoz)Category:Terms with Tajik translations#WEDGE
Thai: ลิ่ม (th) (lîm)Category:Terms with Thai translations#WEDGE
Turkish: kama (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#WEDGE, takoz (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#WEDGE
Ottoman Turkish: قامه (kama)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#WEDGE, طاقوز (takoz)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#WEDGE
Turkmen: pahnaCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#WEDGE, şindeCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#WEDGE
Ukrainian: клин m (klyn)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#WEDGE
Urdu: کیل f (kīl)Category:Urdu terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#WEDGE Category:Terms with Urdu translations#WEDGE
Uyghur: پانا (pana)Category:Terms with Uyghur translations#WEDGE
Uzbek: pona (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#WEDGE
Venetan: cogn (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#WEDGE
Vietnamese: nêm (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#WEDGE, chêm (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#WEDGE
Welsh: lletem fCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#WEDGE

piece of food etc.

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Bulgarian: клин (bg) m (klin)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#WEDGE
Catalan: tascó (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WEDGE, tros (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WEDGE, part (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WEDGE, quart (ca) mCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#WEDGE
Finnish: kolmio (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE (food); kiila (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE
French: part (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#WEDGE, morceau (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#WEDGE, quartier (fr) mCategory:Terms with French translations#WEDGE
German: Stück (de) nCategory:Terms with German translations#WEDGE
Italian: spicchio (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE
Japanese: 一切れ (ja) (hitokire)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#WEDGE
Ladin: tòch mCategory:Terms with Ladin translations#WEDGE
Polish: kawałek (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#WEDGE
Portuguese: fatia (pt) fCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#WEDGE
Romanian: felie (ro) fCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#WEDGE
Russian: кусок (ru) m (kusok)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WEDGE
Serbo-Croatian: krȉška (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#WEDGE
Sicilian: feḍḍa fCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#WEDGE, pezzu (scn) mCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#WEDGE
Spanish: rebanada triangular fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE
Swedish: bit (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#WEDGE
Venetan: tòch (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#WEDGE, tòco (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#WEDGE, toco (vec) mCategory:Terms with Venetan translations#WEDGE

geometry: type of five-sided polyhedron

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Chinese:
Mandarin: 楔體 / 楔体 (xiētǐ)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#WEDGE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#WEDGE
Finnish: kiila (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE
German: Keil (de) mCategory:Terms with German translations#WEDGE
Spanish: cuña (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE

figurative: something that creates a division

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Bulgarian: разцепление (bg) n (razceplenie)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#WEDGE
Finnish: kiila (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE
Hungarian: ék (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#WEDGE
Italian: cuneo (it) mCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE
Sicilian: cugnu (scn) mCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#WEDGE

flank of cavalry

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Finnish: kiila (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE
Greek: σμήνος (el) n (smínos)Category:Terms with Greek translations#WEDGE
Spanish: formación en V fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE, formación en cuña fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE
Swedish: kil (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#WEDGE

group of birds flying in V formation

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Dutch: vendel (nl) nCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#WEDGE
Finnish: aura (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE
Greek: σμήνος (el) n (smínos)Category:Terms with Greek translations#WEDGE
Italian: formazione a cuneoCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE di oche, cigni (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE, anatre (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE
Polish: klucz (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#WEDGE
Quechua: ananinamiCategory:Terms with Quechua translations#WEDGE
Romanian: cârd (ro) nCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#WEDGE
Russian: клин (ru) m (klin)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WEDGE
Spanish: bandada formada en V fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE
Swedish: plog (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#WEDGE

one of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes

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Finnish: kiilakorkokenkäCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE
Portuguese: sapato anabelaCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#WEDGE
Sicilian: zòcculi m plCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#WEDGE
Spanish: zapato de cuña mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE
Swedish: kilklackssko cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#WEDGE

colloquial: quantity of money

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typography: háček — see háček

phonetics: IPA character ʌ

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Sicilian: cugnu (scn) mCategory:Terms with Sicilian translations#WEDGE

mathematics: the symbol ∧

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meteorology: wedge tornado — see wedge tornado

sandwich — see sub

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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Ido: ^{(please verify)} taketo (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#WEDGE Category:Requests for review of Ido translations#WEDGE

Verb

wedge (third-person singular simple present wedges, present participle wedging, simple past and past participle wedged)Category:English lemmas#WEDGE Category:English verbs#WEDGE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#WEDGE Category:Pages with entries#WEDGE Category:Pages with 2 entries#WEDGE

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WEDGE) To support or secure using a wedge.
I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.Category:English terms with usage examples#WEDGE
- 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:
  "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.
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(ambitransitive Category:English transitive verbs#WEDGE Category:English intransitive verbs#WEDGE) To force into a narrow gap.
He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.Category:English terms with usage examples#WEDGE

I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.Category:English terms with usage examples#WEDGE
- 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents‎:
  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.
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(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WEDGE) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WEDGE) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
(computing Category:en:Computing#WEDGE, informal Category:English informal terms#WEDGE, intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#WEDGE) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.Category:English terms with usage examples#WEDGE
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WEDGE) To cleave with a wedge.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WEDGE) To force or drive with a wedge.
(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#WEDGE) To shape into a wedge.

Derived terms

wedge up

Translations

to support or secure using a wedge

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Bulgarian: заклинвам (zaklinvam)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#WEDGE
Catalan: falcar (ca)Category:Terms with Catalan translations#WEDGE
Esperanto: kojniCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#WEDGE
Finnish: kiilata (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#WEDGE
French: caler (fr)Category:Terms with French translations#WEDGE
Galician: tillar (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#WEDGE, acuñar (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#WEDGE, calzar (gl)Category:Terms with Galician translations#WEDGE
Ingrian: klinataCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#WEDGE
Italian: incuneare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE, imbiettareCategory:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE, rincalzare (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#WEDGE
Russian: расклинивать (ru) (rasklinivatʹ)Category:Terms with Russian translations#WEDGE
Spanish: acuñar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE, calzar (es)Category:Terms with Spanish translations#WEDGE
Swedish: kila (sv)Category:Terms with Swedish translations#WEDGE
Turkish:
Ottoman Turkish: قامه‌لامق (kamalamak)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#WEDGE

to force into a narrow gap

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Etymology 2

From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

Noun

wedge (plural wedges)Category:English lemmas#WEDGE Category:English nouns#WEDGE Category:English countable nouns#WEDGE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#WEDGE Category:Pages with entries#WEDGE Category:Pages with 2 entries#WEDGE

(UK Category:British English#WEDGE, Cambridge University slang Category:en:Universities#WEDGE Category:Cambridge University slang#WEDGE) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- 1873, Charles Astor Bristed, Five Years in an English University:
  The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics.
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Synonyms

wooden wedge

Wikimore

wedge

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