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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024wedge /wɛdʒ/USA pronunciation n., v., wedged, wedg•ing. n. [countable] - a triangular piece of hard material used for raising, holding, or splitting objects:He put a wedge under the door to prop it open.
- something shaped like a wedge, as a cuneiform character.
- something that serves to part, split, or divide:She tried to drive a wedge between the two friends by whispering rumors.
v. [~ + object] - to split with or as if with a wedge.
- to insert or fix firmly with a wedge:to wedge a door open.
- to pack tightly into a narrow space:to wedge clothes into a suitcase.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024wedge (wej),USA pronunciation n., v., wedged, wedg•ing. n. - a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Cf. machine (def. 3b).
- a piece of anything of like shape:a wedge of pie.
- a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.
- Meteorology(formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure.
- something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.:The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization.
- Military(formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of aVwith the point toward the enemy.
- Sport[Golf.]a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, esp. out of sand traps and high grass.
- OpticsSee optical wedge.
- Phoneticshaček.
- Dialect Terms[Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island.]a hero sandwich.
- Clothinga wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.
v.t. - to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often fol. by open, apart, etc.):to wedge open a log.
- to insert or fix with a wedge.
- to pack or fix tightly:to wedge clothes into a suitcase.
- to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge:He wedged himself through the narrow opening.
- [Ceram.]to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
- to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw.
v.i. - to force a way like a wedge (usually fol. by in, into, through, etc.):The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.
- bef. 900; Middle English wegge (noun, nominal), Old English wecg; cognate with dialect, dialectal German Weck (Old High German wecki), Old Norse veggr
- 14.See corresponding entry in Unabridged cram, jam, stuff, crowd, squeeze.
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