Wedge
[wedʒ] or [wɛdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them.
(noun.) (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole.
(noun.) any shape that is triangular in cross section.
(verb.) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; 'I squeezed myself into the corner'.
Typed by Denis--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
(n.) A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
(n.) Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
(v. t.) To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
(v. t.) To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
(v. t.) To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
Checker: Witt
Definition
n. a piece of wood or metal thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other used in splitting: anything shaped like a wedge: a mass of metal: at Cambridge the man lowest on the list of the classical tripos.—v.t. to cleave with a wedge: to force or drive with a wedge: to press closely: to fasten with a wedge: to make into a wedge.—v.i. to force one's way like a wedge.—adjs. Wedged cuneiform or wedge-shaped; Wedge′-shaped having the shape of a wedge; Wedge′-tailed having the tail wedge-shaped or cuneate.—adv. Wedge′wise in the manner of a wedge.—n. Wedg′ing a method of joining timbers.—Wedge of least resistance the form in which a substance yields to pressure.—The thin or small end of the wedge the insignificant-looking beginning of a principle or practice which will yet lead to something great and important.
Typed by Floyd
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a wedge, denotes you will have trouble in some business arrangements which will be the cause of your separation from relatives. Separation of lovers or friends may also be implied.
Editor: Ned
Examples
- When all was completed the great staging was removed, and the mighty tube rested alone and secure upon its massive wedge-faced piers rising from the bedrock of the flood below. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Can you explain how this is a wedge? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- By means of a wedge, the stump is split. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The transverse channel through the breech is tapered, and the sliding breech block X is slightly wedge-shaped to fit tightly therein. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Put it in just as fast as you can and wedge it tight and lash it fast. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Excluded, Germany became a wedge that needed only the impact of the Hunnish hammer to split up the whole system. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perhaps the most universal form of a wedge is our common pin. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He stood wedged in the forum, imperfectly hearing a distant speaker. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I should have died even then but for that as my sword was tight wedged in the breastbone of a Dator of the First Born. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Instantly with the shock of impact I reversed my engine, but my prow was wedged in the hole it had made in the battleship's stern. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- For a brief time under Odenathus, and then under his widow Zenobia, Palmyra was a considerable state, wedged between the two empires. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Small holes a few inches apart are cut along a certain length of rock, into which steel wedges are inserted. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Give me some wedges, _viejo_. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These were extra wedges in case they should be needed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Take thy time and do it well, wedging all securely with the wooden wedges and lashing the grenades firmly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The old man was finishing whittling the last of a pile of wedges he had copied from a model Robert Jordan had given him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Take thy time and do it well, wedging all securely with the wooden wedges and lashing the grenades firmly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- You see we have been wedging one leg with paper. Jane Austen. Emma.
Edited by Hattie