WEDGE
\wˈɛd͡ʒ], \wˈɛdʒ], \w_ˈɛ_dʒ]\
Definitions of WEDGE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
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something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
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(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
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a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
By Princeton University
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squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
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something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
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(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
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a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
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A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
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Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
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To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
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To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
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To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
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To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
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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.
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To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
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A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
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Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
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To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
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To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
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To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
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To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
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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.
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To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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A piece of wood or metal, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting: a mass of metal.
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To cleave with a wedge: to force or drive with a wedge: to press closely: to fasten with a wedge.
By Daniel Lyons
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Piece of wood, metal, &c., sloping to an edge; ingot.
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To force or fasten with a wedge; press closely.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A piece of metal or wood, thick at one end and sloping to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting woods, rocks, &c, being one of the mechanical powers; a solid of five sides, viz., a rectangular base, two rhomboidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends; something in the form of a wedge; a mass of metal.
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To cleave with a wedge; to drive as a wedge is driven; to crowd or compress closely; to force, as a wedge forces its way; to fasten with a wedge or wedges; to fix in the manner of a wedge.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
