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1.nounOne 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."
2.nounA piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape."Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?"
3.nounA five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
4.nounSomething that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
5.nounA flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
6.nounA type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
7.nounA group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
8.nounOne of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
9.nounA quantity of money."I made a big fat wedge from that job."
10.nounA sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll."I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli."
11.nounHáček
12.nounThe IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
13.nounThe symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
14.nounA wedge tornado.
15.nounA 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).
16.verbTo support or secure using a wedge."I wedged open the window with a screwdriver."
17.verbTo force into a narrow gap."He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa."
18.verbTo work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
19.verbOf a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state."My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update."
20.verbTo cleave with a wedge.
21.verbTo force or drive with a wedge.
22.verbTo shape into a wedge.