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wedged


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wedge  \Wedge\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wedged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Wedging}.] 
  1.  To  cleave  or  separate  with  a  wedge  or  wedges,  or  as  with  a 
  wedge;  to  rive.  ``My  heart,  as  wedged  with  a  sigh,  would 
  rive  in  twain.''  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  force  or  drive  as  a  wedge  is  driven. 
 
  Among  the  crowd  in  the  abbey  where  a  finger  Could 
  not  be  wedged  in  more  --Shak. 
 
  He  's  just  the  sort  of  man  to  wedge  himself  into  a 
  snug  berth.  --Mrs.  J.  H. 
  Ewing. 
 
  3.  To  force  by  crowding  and  pushing  as  a  wedge  does  as  to 
  wedge  one's  way  --Milton. 
 
  4.  To  press  closely;  to  fix,  or  make  fast  in  the  manner  of  a 
  wedge  that  is  driven  into  something 
 
  Wedged  in  the  rocky  shoals,  and  sticking  fast 
  --Dryden. 
 
  5.  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 
 
  6.  (Pottery)  To  cut,  as  clay,  into  wedgelike  masses,  and  work 
  by  dashing  together,  in  order  to  expel  air  bubbles,  etc 
  --Tomlinson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wedged 
  adj  :  wedged  or  packed  in  together;  "an  impacted  tooth"  [syn:  {impacted}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  wedged  adj  1.  To  be  stuck,  incapable  of  proceeding  without 
  help.  This  is  different  from  having  crashed.  If  the  system  has  crashed, 
  it  has  become  totally  non-functioning.  If  the  system  is  wedged,  it 
  is  trying  to  do  something  but  cannot  make  progress;  it  may  be  capable 
  of  doing  a  few  things  but  not  be  fully  operational.  For  example, 
  a  process  may  become  wedged  if  it  {deadlock}s  with  another  (but  not 
  all  instances  of  wedging  are  deadlocks).  See  also  {gronk},  {locked 
  up},  {hosed},  {hung}  (wedged  is  more  severe  than  {hung}).  2.  Often 
  refers  to  humans  suffering  misconceptions.  "He's  totally  wedged  -- 
  he's  convinced  that  he  can  levitate  through  meditation."  3.  [Unix] 
  Specifically  used  to  describe  the  state  of  a  TTY  left  in  a  losing  state 
  by  abort  of  a  screen-oriented  program  or  one  that  has  messed  with  the 
  line  discipline  in  some  obscure  way 
 
  There  is  some  dispute  over  the  origin  of  this  term.  It  is  usually 
  thought  to  derive  from  a  common  description  of  recto-cranial  inversion; 
  however,  it  may  actually  have  originated  with  older  `hot-press'  printing 
  technology  in  which  physical  type  elements  were  locked  into  type  frames 
  with  wedges  driven  in  by  mallets.  Once  this  had  been  done  no  changes 
  in  the  typesetting  for  that  page  could  be  made 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  wedged 
 
  1.  To  be  stuck,  incapable  of  proceeding  without  help.  This  is 
  different  from  having  crashed.  If  the  system  has  crashed,  it 
  has  become  totally  non-functioning.  If  the  system  is  wedged, 
  it  is  trying  to  do  something  but  cannot  make  progress;  it  may 
  be  capable  of  doing  a  few  things  but  not  be  fully 
  operational.  For  example,  a  process  may  become  wedged  if  it 
  {deadlock}s  with  another  (but  not  all  instances  of  wedging  are 
  deadlocks).  See  also  {gronk},  {locked  up},  {hosed}.  2.  Often 
  refers  to  humans  suffering  misconceptions.  "He's  totally 
  wedged  -  he's  convinced  that  he  can  levitate  through 
  meditation."  3.  [Unix]  Specifically  used  to  describe  the 
  state  of  a  TTY  left  in  a  losing  state  by  abort  of  a 
  screen-oriented  program  or  one  that  has  messed  with  the  line 
  discipline  in  some  obscure  way 
 
  There  is  some  dispute  over  the  origin  of  this  term.  It  is 
  usually  thought  to  derive  from  a  common  description  of 
  recto-cranial  inversion;  however,  it  may  actually  have 
  originated  with  older  "hot-press"  printing  technology  in  which 
  physical  type  elements  were  locked  into  type  frames  with 
  wedges  driven  in  by  mallets.  Once  this  had  been  done  no 
  changes  in  the  typesetting  for  that  page  could  be  made 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
 




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