wedge

1. 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.

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

   Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?

3. A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
4. Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
5. A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
6. A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
7. A group of geese, swans or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
8. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
9. A quantity of money.

   I made a big fat wedge from that job.

10. A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.

    I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.

11. Háček
12. The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
13. The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
14. A wedge tornado.
15. 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).

1. To support or secure using a wedge.

   I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.

2. To force into a narrow gap.

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

3. To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
4. Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.

   My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.

5. To cleave with a wedge.
6. To force or drive with a wedge.
7. To shape into a wedge.

noun

(Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.