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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