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Definitions for Wedge

[1] 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. Compare machine(def 3b) .
[2] a piece of anything of like shape: a wedge of pie.
[3] a cuneiform character or stroke of this shape.
[4] Meteorology . (formerly) an elongated area of relatively high pressure.
[5] something that serves to part, split, divide, etc.: The quarrel drove a wedge into the party organization.
[6] Military . (formerly) a tactical formation generally in the form of a V with the point toward the enemy.
[7] Golf . a club with an iron head the face of which is nearly horizontal, for lofting the ball, especially out of sand traps and high grass.
[8] Optics . optical wedge.
[9] haček.
[10] Chiefly Coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island . a hero sandwich.
[11] a wedge heel or shoe with such a heel.
[12] to separate or split with or as if with a wedge (often followed by open, apart, etc.): to wedge open a log.
[13] to insert or fix with a wedge.
[14] to pack or fix tightly: to wedge clothes into a suitcase.
[15] to thrust, drive, fix, etc., like a wedge: He wedged himself through the narrow opening.
[16] Ceramics . to pound (clay) in order to remove air bubbles.
[17] to fell or direct the fall of (a tree) by driving wedges into the cut made by the saw.
[18] to force a way like a wedge (usually followed by in, into, through, etc.): The box won't wedge into such a narrow space.
[19] a block of solid material, esp wood or metal, that is shaped like a narrow V in cross section and can be pushed or driven between two objects or parts of an object in order to split or secure them
[20] any formation, structure, or substance in the shape of a wedge a wedge of cheese
[21] something such as an idea, action, etc, that tends to cause division
[22] a shoe with a wedge heel
[23] golf a club with a face angle of more than 50°, used for bunker shots (sand wedge ) or pitch shots (pitching wedge )
[24] a wedge-shaped extension of the high pressure area of an anticyclone, narrower than a ridge
[25] mountaineering a wedge-shaped device, formerly of wood, now usually of hollow steel, for hammering into a crack to provide an anchor point
[26] any of the triangular characters used in cuneiform writing
[27] (formerly) a body of troops formed in a V-shape
[28] photog a strip of glass coated in such a way that it is clear at one end but becomes progressively more opaque towards the other end: used in making measurements of transmission density
[29] British slang a bribe
[30] thin end of the wedge anything unimportant in itself that implies the start of something much larger
[31] (tr) to secure with or as if with a wedge
[32] to squeeze or be squeezed like a wedge into a narrow space
[33] (tr) to force apart or divide with or as if with a wedge

Words related to Wedge

chunk, cusp, taper, spire, quoin, cleat, lump, keystone, prong, block, shim, cotter, chock

Words nearby Wedge

wedding ring, wedding-cake, wedekind, wedel, wedeln, wedge, wedge bone, wedge heel, wedge issue, wedge pressure, wedge resection

Origin of Wedge

before 900; Middle English wegge (noun), Old English wecg; cognate with dialectal German Weck (Old High German wecki ), Old Norse veggr

Other words from Wedge

wedge·like , adjective
un·wedge , verb (used with object), un·wedged, un·wedg·ing.

Word origin for Wedge

Old English wecg; related to Old Saxon weggi, Old High German wecki, Old Norse veggr wall

Synonyms for Wedge

chunk, block, chock, cleat, cotter, cusp, keystone, lump, prong, quoin, shim, spire, taper