wedge
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Is wedge a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.Examples: "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."countablefigurativelyuncountable
2. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.countableuncountable
3. (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.countableuncountable
4. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.archaiccountableuncountable
5. (zoology, collective) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.Synonyms: skeincollectivecountableuncountable
6. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.Examples: "I wedged open the window with a screwdriver."; ""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."transitive
2. (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.Examples: "He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa."; "I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully."; "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."ambitransitive
3. (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.transitive
4. (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.transitive
5. (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.Examples: "My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update."informalintransitive
6. (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.transitive
noun (English)
1. (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.Examples: "The last man is called the Wedge, corresponding to the Spoon in Mathematics."Synonyms: wooden wedgeUK
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