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# wedge

«wedge» in Mova's school dictionary: **A piece of wood, metal or other material that is thick at…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a wedge, wedges); verb (wedge, wedges, wedged, wedging)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A piece of wood, metal or other material that is thick at one end and thin at the other, used to hold something in place or split something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#m1)

2) A piece shaped like this: a wedge of cheese or lemon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#m2)

3) (verb) To push or squeeze something into a tight space so it stays there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#m3)

4) (verb) To hold something in place with a wedge: wedge the door open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science: a wedge is one of the simple machines, used in axes and knives to split things. In maths: a slice of a circle or cake can be a wedge. In everyday life: door wedges, potato wedges, getting stuck («wedged in»).

### examples

- Put a wedge under the door to keep it open. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#x1)
- An axe works like a wedge to split the log. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#x2)
- He cut a wedge of cheese for his sandwich. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#x3)
- My foot got wedged between two rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#x4)
- We had potato wedges with dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#x5)
- A cake cut into 8 equal wedges gives each piece one eighth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#x6)
- Going into the large yard, he cut two oaken wedges, took a new wheel, and drove a wedge firmly into one end of its axle-box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/#x7)

### note

Countable. Verb is regular: wedged, wedging (drop the e). Science fact: a wedge is a simple machine that turns a push into a sideways force. In fractions, equal wedges of a round cake show 1/8, 1/4 and so on.

### In the corpora

- [Swell sharks gulp water to puff themselves up and wedge into rock cracks so a predator cannot pull them out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks/16/)
- [Scribes pressed a cut reed into wet clay, making wedge-shaped marks called cuneiform.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/6/)
- [Scribes pressed a cut reed into wet clay, making wedge-shaped marks; the word cuneiform means wedge-shaped.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/3-mesopotamia-first-cities-and-writing/13/)
- [A wedge, like an axe head or a door stop, is a ramp that turns one downward blow into strong sideways pushes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/34-wheels-axles-ramps-and-screws/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wedge» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wedge/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.