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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A solid of five sides, having a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
3. noun. A mass of metal, especially when of a wedgelike form.
4. noun. Anything in the form of a wedge, as a body of troops drawn up in such a form.
5. noun. 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.
6. transitive verb. To cleave or separate with a wedge or wedges, or as with a wedge; to rive.
7. transitive verb. To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
8. transitive verb. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to wedge one's way.
9. transitive verb. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a wedge that is driven into something.
10. transitive 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.
11. transitive verb. To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
12. noun. a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

    Synonyms: chock

13. noun. something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
14. noun. (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
15. noun. a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
16. noun. a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation

    Synonyms: hacek

17. noun. 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

    Synonyms: bomber, grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy, sub, submarine, torpedo, zep

18. noun. any shape that is triangular in cross section

    Synonyms: cuneus

19. verb. squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

    "I squeezed myself into the corner"

    Synonyms: force, squeeze

20. verb. put, fix, force, or implant

    "lodge a bullet in the table"

    "stick your thumb in the crack"

    Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick

Synonyms

chock, hacek, bomber, grinder, hero, hoagie, hoagy, sub, submarine, torpedo, zep, cuneus, force, squeeze, deposit, lodge, stick

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wedge:

gweed

Common word forms

wedged, wedger, wedges, wedging, wedgeable

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