What does wad mean?

Definitions for wad
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wadnoun

    a small mass of soft material

    "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"

  2. 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, wadnoun

    (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"

  3. chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wadverb

    a wad of something chewable as tobacco

  4. pack, bundle, wad, compactverb

    compress into a wad

    "wad paper into the box"

  5. jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wadverb

    crowd or pack to capacity

    "the theater was jampacked"

Wiktionary

  1. wadnoun

    An amorphous, compact mass.

    Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.

  2. wadnoun

    A substantial pile (normally of money).

    With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan

  3. wadnoun

    A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.

  4. wadnoun

    an ejaculate of semen.

  5. wadnoun

    Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits

  6. wadverb

    To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.

    She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.

  7. wadverb

    to wager

  8. Etymology: waidan, whence also Old High German weit

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Wadnoun

    Etymology: weod hay, Saxon.

ChatGPT

  1. wad

    A wad is a thick pile or lump of a soft material typically used for padding, stuffing, or packing purposes. Additionally, it may also refer to a large quantity of money, usually in the form of bills, held together in a bundle.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wadnoun

    woad

  2. Wadnoun

    a little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow

  3. Wadnoun

    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

  4. Wadnoun

    a soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc

  5. Wadverb

    to form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton

  6. Wadverb

    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

  7. Wadnoun

    alt. of Wadd

  8. Etymology: [See Woad.]

Wikidata

  1. Wad

    Wad is an old mining term for any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral-rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits. Typically closely associated with various iron oxides. Specific mineral varieties include pyrolusite, lithiophorite, nsutite, takanelite and vernadite.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wad

    wod, n. a mass of loose matter thrust close together for packing, &c., as hay, tow, &c.: a little mass of paper, tow, or the like to keep the charge in a gun.—v.t. to form into a mass: to pad, stuff out: to stuff a wad into:—pr.p. wad′ding; pa.t. and pa.p. wad′ded.n. Wad′ding, a wad, or the materials for wads: a soft stuff, also sheets of carded cotton for stuffing garments, &c. [Skeat refers to Scand., Sw. vadd, wadding; cf. Ger. watte, wadding, wat, cloth (whence Fr. ouate); ult. allied to weed.]

  2. Wad

    wad, a Scotch form of wed, also of would.

  3. Wad

    Wadd, wod, n. an earthy ore of manganese.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. wad

    A kind of plug, closely fitting the bore of a gun, which is rammed home over the shot to confine it to its place, and sometimes also between the shot and the cartridge: generally made of coiled junk, otherwise a rope grommet, &c.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. wad

    To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun.

  2. wad

    See Grommet, and Junk-wads.

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Anagrams for wad »

  1. ADW

  2. AWD

  3. daw

  4. DAW

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wad in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wad in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of wad in a Sentence

  1. Joanna Gaines:

    I remember when we first got married the only money we had was what was in Chip’s pocket, he always had a wad of cash, but we were broke. If I needed to go grocery shopping it’s whatever was in his pocket. That’s how we paid the bills.

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