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WEDGES
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WEDGES is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.
WEDGES root WEDGE-s
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noun
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countableuncountableOne 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.
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countableuncountableA piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- Can you cut me a wedge of cheese?
- We ordered a box of baked potato wedges with our pizza, and an iceberg wedge as our side salad.
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countablefigurativelyuncountableSomething that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- drive a wedge between [persons, peoples, camps, allies, etc.]
- countableuncountableA five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- countableuncountableA voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- archaiccountableuncountableA flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
- collectivecountableuncountableA group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- countableuncountableA type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- countableuncountableOne of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- countableobsoleteuncountableAn ingot.
- broadlyobsoleteslanguncountableSilver or items made of silver collectively.
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UKbroadlycolloquialcountableuncountableA quantity of money.
- He's got some decent wedge.
- I made a big fat wedge from that job.
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UScountableregionaluncountableA sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- I ordered a chicken parm wedge from the deli.
- countableuncountableOne of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- UScountableuncountableA háček.
- countableuncountableThe IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- countableuncountableThe symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- countableuncountableA hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- countableuncountableA barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- countableuncountableA wedge tornado.
- countableuncountableA 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).
- UKThe person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
verb
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transitiveTo support or secure using a wedge.
- I wedged open the window with a screwdriver.
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ambitransitiveTo force into a narrow gap.
- He had wedged the package between the wall and the back of the sofa.
- I wedged into the alcove and listened carefully.
- transitiveTo pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- transitiveTo work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
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informalintransitiveOf a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- My Linux kernel wedged after I installed the latest update.
- transitiveTo cleave with a wedge.
- transitiveTo force or drive with a wedge.
- transitiveTo shape into a wedge.