Wedge
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.
A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
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.
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
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.
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
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Wedge Quotations
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
Pauline Kael
We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.
Danny Glover
We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation.
Raul Grijalva
All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
Richard H. Davis
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Wedge Translations
wedge in Dutch is een wig slaan, een wig steken
wedge in French is cale, toquade, coin
wedge in Portuguese is cunha
wedge in Swedish is kil, kila
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