Dictionary Entry
wedge
wedge is a 5-letter English word with 20 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 20 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- 3noun
A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
- 4noun
Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
- 5noun
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.
- 6transitive verb
To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
- 7transitive verb
To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
- 8transitive verb
To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
- 9transitive verb
To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
- 10transitive verb
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.
- 11transitive verb
To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
- 12noun
a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
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- 13noun
something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- 14noun
(golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- 15noun
a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- 16noun
a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
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- 17noun
a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- 18noun
any shape that is triangular in cross section
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- 19verb
squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
"I squeezed myself into the corner"
- 20verb
put, fix, force, or implant
"lodge a bullet in the table"
"stick your thumb in the crack"
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