wedged

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It's just that the ads are not wedged in between the middle of the book to interrupt the reading experience.

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Quick take

cuneiform or wedge-shaped

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of wedged gathered in one view.

adjective

cuneiform or wedge-shaped

adjective

(computing, slang) Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wedged.

adjective

cuneiform or wedge-shaped

adjective

(computing, slang) Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.

Example sentences

It's just that the ads are not wedged in between the middle of the book to interrupt the reading experience.

They fastened chains between their truck bumpers and wrecking bars wedged into windows and hit the gas, yanking down bricks.

This fool has wedged himself between the client and business and in the process has hijacked the business' phone number.

But it's not that the individual wants to abide by these particular patterns; it's that they are wedged into a political canyon.

Just be really, really careful about not getting wedged financially, and especially make sure you don't let friends or family members over-invest.

Windows 3 and MacOS classic apps used to get wedged every so often because cooperative multitasking is so easy to get slightly wrong.

Honestly, even Objective-C is better in this regard because the Objective-C parts are well separated from the C parts instead of feeling wedged-in.

I still end up getting wedged into states that send me scrambling for stackoverflow.

Xilinx's synthesis tool replaced it with a one-hot state machine which was not safe for this purpose and worked for a while then randomly wedged itself.

- Check that opening side of plug has wedged on top of cable jacket and not the wiring.

I got wedged between the stairs and the wall and couldn't move.

These things are only optimizations, so with today's available chip area and place and route techniques, they could be wedged into a conceptually correct architecture without much trouble.

Quote examples

Little boys will likely do it less as they begin to be socialized and thus wedged into gender roles, but they definitely do "scream like little girls".

By the way, that "wedged" repository in all likelihood has an uncorrupted working copy containing all changes and can be repaired offline: Git is technically so superior to Subversion and TFS that it isn't even fun.

Get it wedged deeply into your head "I've spent the last 3 hours trawling HN for content, I am a piece of shit." And maybe you'll learn to have some respect for your time.