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

wedge \wedge\, v. t. imp.  p. p. wedged; p. pr.  vb. n.
   wedging.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

   2. to force or drive as a wedge is driven.
      1913 webster

            among the crowd in the abbey where a finger
            could not be wedged in more.          --shak.
      1913 webster

            he 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a
            snug berth.                           --mrs. j. h.
                                                  ewing.
      1913 webster

   3. to force by crowding and pushing as a wedge does; as, to
      wedge one's way. --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. to press closely; to fix, or make fast, in the manner of a
      wedge that is driven into something.
      1913 webster

            wedged in the rocky shoals, and sticking fast.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   6. pottery to cut, as clay, into wedgelike masses, and work
      by dashing together, in order to expel air bubbles, etc.
      --tomlinson.
      1913 webster
see also:
wedged wedging 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

wedged
     adj : wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" syn: impacted
see also:
impacted 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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 deadlocks 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.


see also:
deadlock gronk locked up hosed hung 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

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
        deadlocks 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
     
     
see also:
deadlock gronk locked up hosed jargon file 

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