wedge

(countable, uncountable)One 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.

(countable, uncountable)A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.

Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?

We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza, and an iceberg wedge as our side salad.

(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

Near-synonyms: wedge issue, salami tactics, culture wars

drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]

Đồng nghĩa: wedge issue, salami tactics, culture war

(countable, uncountable)(geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

(countable, uncountable)(architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.

(archaic, countable, uncountable)A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

(collective, countable, uncountable)(zoology, collective) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

(countable, uncountable)(golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

(countable, uncountable)One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)An ingot.

(broadly, obsolete, slang, uncountable)(obsolete, slang, uncountable, by extension) Silver or items made of silver collectively.

(British, broadly, colloquial, countable, uncountable)(colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.

He's got some decent wedge.

I made a big fat wedge from that job.

(transitive)To support or secure using a wedge.

I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.

(ambitransitive)To force into a narrow gap.

He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.

I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.

(transitive)To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.

(transitive)To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.

(informal, intransitive)(computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.

(transitive)To cleave with a wedge.

(transitive)To force or drive with a wedge.

(transitive)To shape into a wedge.