Meaning

• 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."

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

  "Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?"

• A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.

• Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.

• A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.

• A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.

• A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.

• One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.

• A quantity of money.

  "I made a big fat wedge from that job."

• A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

  "I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli."

• Háček

• The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.

• The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.

• A wedge tornado.

• A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).

Meaning

• To support or secure using a wedge.

  "I wedged open the window with a screwdriver."

• To force into a narrow gap.

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

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

• Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

  "My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update."

• To cleave with a wedge.

• To force or drive with a wedge.

• To shape into a wedge.