wedged

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wedged - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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wedged - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wedged
      adj 1: wedged or packed in together; "an impacted tooth" [syn:
             impacted, wedged]

wedged - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  
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wedged - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.
  

wedged - 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