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Wad
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Wad has 3 senses
- wad(n = noun.substance) Array - a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter" is a kind of material, stuff
- wad(n = noun.quantity) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" is a kind of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
- wad(n = noun.food) chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid - a wad of something chewable as tobacco; Array is a kind of bit, bite, morsel
has particulars: deluge, flood, inundation, torrent, haymow
Derived form verb wad2
Derived form verb wad1
Verb Wad has 2 senses
- wad(v = verb.contact) bundle, compact, pack - compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" is one way to arrange, set up
- wad(v = verb.contact) chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" is one way to stuff
Derived form noun wad3
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Derived form noun wad2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something
CIDE DICTIONARY
Wad, n. [See Woad.].
Woad. [1913 Webster]
Wad, n. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding, Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. Wadmol.].
- A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. Holland. [1913 Webster]
- Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose. [1913 Webster]
- A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. [1913 Webster]
Wad, v. t.
- To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton. [1913 Webster]
- To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak. [1913 Webster]
Wad, n.
An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Wad, n. & v.
--n.
1 a lump or bundle of soft material used esp. to keep things apart or in place or to stuff up an opening.
2 a disc of felt etc. keeping powder or shot in place in a gun.
3 a number of banknotes or documents placed together.
4 Brit. sl. a bun, sandwich, etc.
5 (in sing. or pl.) a large quantity esp. of money.
--v.tr. (wadded, wadding)
1 stop up (an aperture or a gun-barrel) with a wad.
2 keep (powder etc.) in place with a wad.
3 line or stuff (a garment or coverlet) with wadding.
4 protect (a person, walls, etc.) with wadding.
5 press (cotton etc.) into a wad or wadding.
--n.
1 a lump or bundle of soft material used esp. to keep things apart or in place or to stuff up an opening.
2 a disc of felt etc. keeping powder or shot in place in a gun.
3 a number of banknotes or documents placed together.
4 Brit. sl. a bun, sandwich, etc.
5 (in sing. or pl.) a large quantity esp. of money.
--v.tr. (wadded, wadding)
1 stop up (an aperture or a gun-barrel) with a wad.
2 keep (powder etc.) in place with a wad.
3 line or stuff (a garment or coverlet) with wadding.
4 protect (a person, walls, etc.) with wadding.
5 press (cotton etc.) into a wad or wadding.
Etymology
perh. rel. to Du. watten, F ouate padding, cotton wool
THESAURUS
Wad
accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, bankroll, batch, block, bomb, boodle, brim, bulk, bundle, ceil, charge, chock, chunk, clamp, clod, clump, compress, congeries, congest, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, considerable, cram, crowd, crush, cumulation, deal, ensphere, face, feather, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, freight, fur, gathering, glomeration, gob, gobs, good deal, good sum, great deal, heap, heaps, heaps of gold, hunch, hunk, inlay, interline, jam, jam-pack, jillion, lade, large sum, lashings, line, load, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, mass, mess, millions, mint, mint of money, nip, nugget, oodles, overfill, pack, packet, pad, pat, peck, pile, piles, pinch, pot, potful, power of money, press, pretty penny, quantity, quite a little, raft, rafts, ram in, roll, satiate, saturate, scads, shoestring, sight, slew, slews, snowball, spate, squeeze, stack, stacks, stockpile, stuff, supercharge, surfeit, thousands, tidy sum, tighten, top off, tweak, wad up, wads, wainscot, weight, whole slew
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