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Definition: Wad |
WadNoun1. (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"; "it must have cost plenty". 2. A wad of something chewable as tobacco. Verb1. Compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box". 2. Crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wad" was first used: 1540. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Massive amorphous dark brown or black manganese ore of variable composition consisting of a mixture of manganese oxides and other oxides. It forms in bogs or damp swampy areas. It commonly contains other minerals such as copper, carbonates, silica and water. It may be very soft or hard and compact. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | A thin web of metal which is punched out to produce a hole through the forging. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. An earthy, dark brown to black mineral material consisting chiefly of an impure mixture of manganese oxides and oxyhydroxides with variable amounts of copper, cobalt, and iron oxides and oxyhydroxides and silica plus 10% to 20% adsorbed water. It is commonly soft (soiling hands), but may be hard and compact, and has a low density. Wad results from the decomposition of other manganese minerals and accumulates in marshy areas or other zones of ground-water emission where it is an ore of manganese. See also:asbolan earthy manganese; manganese hydrate. b. A general term for massive, fine-grained manganese oxides and oxyhydroxides of low density, but not further identified. c. In drilling, a term applied to rock cuttings that tend to ball andadhere to drill-string equipment and borehole walls in lumps. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WAD | English | Wide Area Differential Correction | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WadSynonyms: batch (n), chaw (n), chew (n), cud (n), deal (n), flock (n), good deal (n), great deal (n), hatful (n), heap (n), lot (n), mass (n), mess (n), mickle (n), mint (n), muckle (n), peck (n), pile (n), plenty (n), plug (n), pot (n), quid (n), quite a little (n), raft (n), sight (n), slew (n), spate (n), stack (n), tidy sum (n), whole lot (n), whole slew (n), bundle (v), chock up (v), compact (v), cram (v), jam (v), jampack (v), pack (v), ram (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lining | Verb: line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill. |
Money | Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wad |
| English words defined with "wad": Black ocher, bundle ♦ chaw, chew, compact, cud ♦ Junk wad ♦ pack, plug ♦ quid ♦ Scottering ♦ Waded, Wed hook. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wad": blasting needle ♦ compressor operator-adjuster ♦ groroilite ♦ Highland Mary ♦ John in the Wad ♦ kellow ♦ lampadite ♦ manganolite ♦ SOFTBALL CORE MOLDER ♦ WAD IMPREGNATOR, WAD-COMPRESSOR OPERATOR-ADJUSTER, WAD-PRINTING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "wad": Wadset. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A guy who came to Fight Club for the first time, his ass was a wad of cookie dough (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) Let's not get our panties in a wad over it. (Six Feet Under; writing credit: David Starkey) Yeah, I'd know that wad of used chewing gum anywhere (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) I don't want to put a wad of white powder in my nose (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Take This Wad and Shove It! (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A root wad is placed in the middle of the pools to slow flow and provide habitat for migrating fish. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | [PHS nurse working with the International Rescue Committee in Wad Kowly, Eastern Sudan]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Gertie]. Dig out your wad old scout said she and slip that dame five plunks for m. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | General Weyler of Spain rowing home in a row boat which carries "$ Weyler's Wad" and "the War is Over" leaflet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Crumple; crumpling; ball; throw away; crease; crimp; crimple; crinkle; crush; fall; fold; give way; pucker; rimple; ruck; rumple; scrunch; shrivel; wad; wadding; scrunching; rumpling; creasing; crimpling. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Wad" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wad" is used about 135 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 135 | 27,360 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "wad": Junk wad ♦ use smth. as a wad ♦ wad of banknotes ♦ wad of cotton wool ♦ wad of papers. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wad": wad-carrying. | |
Ending with "wad": tight-wad. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
wad | 106 | doom editor wad | 5 |
doom wad | 42 | sperm wad | 4 |
file wad | 32 | tight wad | 4 |
doom file wad | 27 | meat wad | 4 |
johnny wad | 19 | doom station wad | 4 |
madani sudan wad | 18 | gmawad government gsa insite ncr wad wcp.asp | 4 |
2 doom wad | 11 | cum wad | 4 |
counter file strike wad | 11 | half life wad | 4 |
shoot wad | 9 | john the wad holmes | 4 |
counter strike wad | 9 | creator wad | 3 |
editor wad | 8 | dick wad | 3 |
doom download wad | 8 | blow a wad | 3 |
2 doom file wad | 7 | 2003 car gp4 wad | 3 |
spit wad willy | 7 | holmes johnny wad | 3 |
wad wally | 7 | jos wad | 3 |
converter wad | 7 | maker wad | 3 |
cs file wad | 7 | de nuke wad | 3 |
al wad | 6 | shot wad | 3 |
cs wad | 6 | 2 doom download wad | 3 |
doom ultimate wad | 5 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vatë (pad, wadding), tufë (batch, beam, book, bunch, cloud, clutch, Covey, crop, drove, flight, flock, funiculus, group, herd, mass, muster, parcel, plume, ream, roll, run, scads, slip, stack, swarm, troop, truss, tuft, tussock), tapë (Bibb, bung, bunghole, Cork, Corky, float, gag, obturator, pickled, plug, rabbit, spigot, stopper, stopple, tap), shuk (ball, knob, nub, nubble), shtupë (plug, sponge, stopgap, stopper, stupe, swab, swob, tow, washcloth, wiper), parë e madhe, mbush me shtupë, mbush me pambuk, bëj shuk (crumple). (various references) | |
Arabic | كدس أموال, لفيفة أوراق مالية, حشوة (fill, filling, loading, padding, stuffing, wadding), حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, load, pack, pad, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, tampon), سد (bar, barrage, block, bung, clog, close, close up, congest, dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fill, floodgate, foul, lock, mure, obturate, obturation, occlude, occlusion, pack, plug, seal, shut, stem, stop, stop up, stuff, tamp, weir), رزمة نقود. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | затъквам, пачка банкноти (roll), пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pile, pocket, purse, ready, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, splosh, stuff, tin, vapor, vapour, wampum), парче лека материя, подплатявам с памук (quilt), подплънка (filling, pad, padding, wadding), подпълвам (fill up, pack out, quilt, rat), запушалка (choke, obturator, peg, plug, spile, stopper, tampion, tap), пачка (batch, pack, packet, sheaf), затулям (shade), свивам (bend, constrict, contract, convulse, cop, double, double up, draw, knap, knit, knit together, knot, neck, pinch, pucker, roll, screw, screw up, set, shorten, snitch, swing, turn, turn down, twist, warp, work), зарядна торбичка, набивка (gasket, packing, pad, wadding), ватирам (bolster, pad, quilt), кифла (bun, roll), тампон (ink pad, pad, pledget, sponge, tampon, tent), тампонирам (pad), смачквам (crease, crush, jam out, press, ruck, rumple, scrunch, smash, squash), запушвам (bung, close, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, stuff, wall up). (various references) | |
Chinese | 一团 (wads). (various references) | |
Czech | vycpat (pad, stuff), vích (wisp), vìchet (whisk, wisp), svazek (alliance, bunch, pack, sheaf, volume), otýpka (bundle, faggot, truss, wisp), chumáè (lock, trail, wisp), chuchvalec (clot, lump), žvanec. (various references) | |
Danish | manganmalm fra mose (bog manganese, bog manganese ore), indvendig finne (burr, piercing). (various references) | |
Dutch | waad (bog manganese, bog manganese ore), tussenschot (wall), binnenbraam (burr, piercing), asbolaan (bog manganese, bog manganese ore). (various references) | |
Farsi | فشردن (Crush, Pressure, Squeeze, Tighten, Twitch, Wring), نمد (Muffler), کپه کردن (Bank), کهنه (Ancient, Antique, Archaic, Bygone, Clout, Dead, Gray, Lint, Musty, Obsolescent, Obsolete, Old, Olden, Pokey, Ragged, Rundown, Shabby, Tacky, Timeworn), لاءی گذاشتن (Gasket), لاءی (Mattress), توده کاه , توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Bloc, Block, Bulk, Clot, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Pyre, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume), استری (Liner). (various references) | |
Finnish | vuorata (line, put weatherboards on), vanu (cotton wool), tukku (bunch), sisäpuolinen purse (burr, piercing), mangaanisuomalmi (bog manganese, bog manganese ore). (various references) | |
French | toile, tampon, rembourrer, ouater, liasse (wads), faire tampon de, entasser, chique de tabac, bourre (wadding), boulette, bouchon, boucher, bogmanganèse, asbolitine, écume de manganèse. (various references) | |
German | Bausch (ball, bustle, pleat, puff, swelling). (various references) | |
Greek | στουπί (lint, oakum, tow, wadding, without juice). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוך (cotton, cotton wool, down, fluff, pulp), לפקוק (bung, gag, plug), לא'" (merge, organize, syndicate), לרפ" (line, pad, upholster), לסתום (choke, clog, close up, conceal, plug, shut, stop, stop up), חפיס" (packet), חביל" (bundle, pack, package, parcel, sheaf, wisp), א יץ (bundle, wisp), צרור רך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fojtás (choke, choking, garrote, suffocation). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyumbat, gumpal (ball, chock, chunk, clod, clot, clump, gob), gepokan (sheaf), gepok (bundle, sheaf). (various references) | |
Italian | batuffolo (flock). (various references) | |
Korean | 뭉치 (Bundle, wads). (various references) | |
Manx | wed (wadding), paggey (deck, pack, wadding), loggey (wadding), burley (cress, water cress), ascart. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rebarba interna (burr, piercing), maço (beetle, bunch, mallet, maul, pack, packet, sheaf), estofar (pad, quilt, stuff, upholster), enchumaçar (pad), enchimento (charging, distension, filling, replenishment, shim, wadding), disco de feltro, dinheiro (bawbee, brass, cash, chink, currency, dibs, dough, ducat, gold, in cash, money, pelf, pence, penny, pewter, pocket, purse, shekel, shekels, shiner, siller, splosh, tin, wherewithal), chumaço (dossil, padding, wadding), capital (bank stock, capital city, chief, main, major, metropolis, principal, principal city), bucha (bush, padding, plug, sleeve, stopgap, stopper, tampion), bem-estar (comfort, convenience, ease, good, weal, welfare). (various references) | |
Romanian | vãtui (leveret, pad, quilt), teanc de bancnote, tampon (buffer, cushion, pad, plug, plugging, tampon, Wick), pachet de scrisori, dop (Cork, float, peg, stop, stopper), cãptuşi o hainã cu vatã, bumbãci (beat smb. black and blue, sandbag), astupa cu un dop (Cork), aşeza bilet de bancã în teanc. (various references) | |
Russian | комок (clot, nub, nugget). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zapušiti kučinom, zamotuljak (bundle), vatirati (line), praviti svežanj, praviti smotuljak, mali snop, kučina (hards, oakum, tow), čep (bung, cork, plug, spigot, spile, stopple, tampion, tampon). (various references) | |
Spanish | wad (bog manganese, bog manganese ore), lío (bundle, caper, clutter, do, fuss, game, hash, hassle, imbroglio, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, muddle, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrape, snarl up, stink, tangle, truss), atar (attach, band, bind, brace, fasten, hitch, knot, lash, lash down, shackle, strand, tether, tie, tie back, tie down, tie on, tie together, tie up, truss, truss up), bolita (marble, pellet), enguatar, fajo (bundle, roll, sheaf), guata (batting, paunch, raw cotton, tripe, wadding), acolchar (pad, quilt, upholster), la borra, manganeso de pantano (bog manganese, bog manganese ore), rebaba interna (burr, piercing), rellenar (fill, fill in, fill out, refill, replenish, stuff, top up), taco (block, brick, cue, nail, pad, rawlplug, stopper, swearword, tablet, taco, tampion, wadding), tapón (cap, capful, cover, plug, stopper, stopple, tampion, tampon, wadding), tapón o corcho, hidróxido impuro de manganeso (bog manganese, bog manganese ore). (various references) | |
Swedish | vaddera (pad), tuss (flock, flocks). (various references) | |
Turkish | vatka koymak, tomar (bundle, coil, roll, scroll, sheaf, web), tampon (buffer, bumper, cushion, fender, packing, shock absorber, tampon), tüfek sıkısı, tıpa (bung, Cork, plug, stopper, stopple, tampon), tıkamak (block, block up, bung, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, engorge, foul, foul up, glut, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stop up, stopple, stuff, tampon), tıkaç (bung, Cork, filler, gag, packing, plug, spigot, spill, stopper, stopple, tampon, wadding), pamukla doldurmak (pad). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | затикати (bung, caulk, fill, obturate, plug, stop up), пачка грошей, підбивати ватою (pad), підбивка (wadding), багатство (affluence, bag, capital, fortune, mammon, means, moneybag, oof, opulence, pocket, profusion, purse, riches, richness, the dollars, thrift, weal, wealth), жмакати (crumple, wisp), пиж, жмуток (cluster, sheaf, wisp), уставляти (embed, imbed, inlet, insert, inset, intercalate, put, put in, sandwich, work in), ватин (batting, wadding), графіт (graphite, lead, plumbago, pot lead), кусок (bit, bite, cake, nugget, piece, slab), шматок (bar, bit, clout, gobbet, junk, slog), тампон (swab, swob, tampon), туго згортати, жмут (bundle, rag). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiền (handbag, money). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 47, Verse 5 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai diemetrhsen ciliouV kai ouk hdunato dielqein oti exubrizen to udwr wV roizoV ceimarrou on ou diabhsontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et mensus est mille et transduxit me per aquam usque ad renes et mensus est mille torrentem quem non potui pertransire quoniam intumuerant aquae profundae torrentis qui non potest transvadari |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he matte a thousand, by the streme of reyn whom Y miyte not ouer passe; for deep waters of the streme of reyn wexiden grete, whiche may not be ouer wad. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through. |
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| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 47, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | Sa human niana siya misukod na usab usa ka libo ka maniko; ug kini maoy usa ka suba nga dili na nako malabang; kay ang katubigan mingtubo man, katubigan nga malangoyan, usa ka suba nga dili na malabang. |
| Croatian | Opet izmjeri tisuæu lakata, ali ondje bijaše potok koji ne mogoh prijeæi jer je voda nabujala te je trebalo plivati: bijaše to potok koji se ne može prijeæi. |
| Dutch | Voorts mat hij nog duizend, en het was een beek, waar ik niet kon doorgaan; want de wateren waren hoge wateren, waar men door zwemmen moest, een beek, waar men niet kon doorgaan. |
| Finnish | Sitten hän mittasi tuhat: tuli virta, jonka poikki minä en voinut käydä, sillä vesi nousi uimavedeksi, virraksi, josta ei voinut käydä poikki. |
| French | Il mesura encore mille coudées; c`était un torrent que je ne pouvais traverser, car l`eau était si profonde qu`il fallait y nager; c`était un torrent qu`on ne pouvait traverser. |
| German | Da maß er noch tausend Ellen, und es ward so tief, daß ich nicht mehr Grund hatte; denn das Wasser war zu hoch, daß man darüber schwimmen mußte und keinen Grund hatte. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah diukurnya pula seribu hasta, jadilah ia itu sungai yang tiada dapat kuarung, karena airnya terlalu dalam, boleh orang berenang dalam airnya, yaitu suatu sungai yang tiada terarung. |
| Maori | Muri iho i whanganga e ia he mano; na he awa kihai i taea te whiti; kua neke ake hoki nga wai e kauhoea, he awa e kore e whitingia. |
| Norwegian | Så målte han atter tusen alen; da var det en bekk som jeg ikke kunde vade igjennem; for vannet var så høit at en måtte svømme der - det var en bekk som ikke lot sig vade. |
| Portuguese | Ainda mediu mais mil, e era um rio, que eu não podia atravessar; pois as águas tinham crescido, águas para nelas nadar, um rio pelo qual não se podia passar a vau. |
| Rumanian | A mqsurat iarqwi o mie de coyi, wi atunci era un rku pe care nu -l puteam trece, cqci apa era atkt de adkncq knckt trebuia sq knot-un rku, care nu se putea trece. |
| Swedish | Ännu en gång mätte han upp tusen alnar, och nu var det en ström som jag icke kunde gå över. Ty vattnet gick så högt att man måste simma; det var en ström som man icke kunde gå över. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wad": wadable, wadded, wadder, wadders, waddie, waddied, waddies, wadding, waddings, waddle, waddled, waddler, waddlers, waddles, waddling, waddly, waddy, waddying, wade, wadeable, waded, wader, waders, wades, wadi, wadies, wading, wadis, wadmaal, wadmaals, wadmal, wadmals, wadmel, wadmels, wadmol, wadmoll, wadmolls, wadmols, wads, wadset, wadsets, wadsetted, wadsetting, wady. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wad": tightwad. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wad": nowadays, swaddle, swaddled, swaddles, swaddling, tightwads, twaddle, twaddled, twaddler, twaddlers, twaddles, twaddling. (additional references) | |
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"Wad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Awad, awd, Awdf, awdl, awld, awv, qad, Qwa, Qwaa, twad, wa, waa, waac, wab, wac, wadt, Wady, waf, waj, wak, wao, waq, wasd, wat, wau, wayd, waz, wdb, wdr, wdx, wead, wedd, whad, wid, widg, wijd, wod, wsd, wud, wudu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wad" (pronounced wÄ"d) |
| 3 | w Ä" d | quad, squad. |
| 2 | -Ä" d | Ballade, cod, esplanade, facade, God, nod, odd, plod, pod, prod, rod, roughshod, scrod, shod, sod, Tod, trod. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: daw. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-w" | |
-1 letter: ad, aw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-w" | |
+1 letter: awed, bawd, dawk, dawn, daws, dawt, draw, wade, wadi, wads, wady, wand, ward, woad. | |
+2 letters: adown, award, awned, bawds, bawdy, cawed, dawed, dawen, dawks, dawns, dawts, dewan, dewar, dewax, diwan, drawl, drawn, draws, dwarf, hawed, jawed, lawed, mawed, pawed, sawed, sward, tawed, waddy, waded, wader, wades, wadis, waged, waked, waldo, waled, wands, waned, wards, wared, waved, waxed, weald, woads, woald, yawed. | |
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