Wedged

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wedge \Wedge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wedged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Wedging}.]
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     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.


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     2. To force or drive as a wedge is driven.
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              Among the crowd in the abbey where a finger
              Could not be wedged in more.          --Shak.
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              He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a
              snug berth.                           --Mrs. J. H.
                                                    Ewing.
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     3. To force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to
        wedge one's way. --Milton.
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     4. To press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a
        wedge that is driven into something.
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              Wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     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.
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     6. (Pottery) To cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work
        by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
        --Tomlinson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wedged
       adj : wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn: {impacted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "wedged":
     aground, anchored, bonded, caught, cemented, chained, close, fast,
     fastened, firm, fixed, glued, grounded, held, high and dry,
     impacted, inextricable, jammed, moored, packed, secure, set,
     stranded, stuck, stuck fast, taped, tethered, tied, tight,
     transfixed
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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 (27 SEP 03) [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}]