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wedge Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a piece of metal, wood, rubber, etc. with a pointed edge at one end and a wide edge at the other, either pushed between two objects to keep them still or forced into something to break pieces off it:
- Push a wedge under the door to keep it open while we're carrying the boxes in.
- Pieces of stone can be split off by forcing wedges between the layers.
- Auntie Ann put a huge wedge of cake on my plate.
- a wedge of cheese
1 women's shoes with a heel all the way under the shoe
2 to make something stay in a particular position by using a wedge:
- [ + adj ] Find something to wedge the window open/closed with.
- Her shoe came off and got wedged between the bars.
- I was standing waiting for a bus, wedged between (= fixed between and unable to move away from) two old ladies and their bags of shopping.
3 a piece of wood, metal, or other material with a pointed edge at one end and a wide edge at the other, used to keep two things apart or, when forced between two things, to break them apart:
- A wedge under the door kept it open.

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Ascenders have tapering wedges, while the wedges on minims are heavy.
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The first design represents two wedges, the larger one sliding along the fixed smaller one to vary the target thickness.
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