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WAD

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Irregular inflected forms: wadded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, wadding  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wad of something chewable as tobaccoplay

Synonyms:

chaw; chew; cud; plug; quid; wad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("wad" is a kind of...):

bit; bite; morsel (a small amount of solid food; a mouthful)

Derivation:

wad (compress into a wad)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extentplay

Example:

a wad of money

Synonyms:

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; wad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("wad" is a kind of...):

large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wad"):

deluge; flood; inundation; torrent (an overwhelming number or amount)

haymow (a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation)

Derivation:

wad (crowd or pack to capacity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A small mass of soft materialplay

Example:

he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("wad" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

 II. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they wad  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it wads  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: wadded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: wadded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: wadding  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compress into a wadplay

Example:

wad paper into the box

Synonyms:

bundle; compact; pack; wad

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "wad" is one way to...):

arrange; set up (put into a proper or systematic order)

Verb group:

compact; pack (have the property of being packable or of compacting easily)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wad"):

puddle (work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

wad (a wad of something chewable as tobacco)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Crowd or pack to capacityplay

Example:

the theater was jampacked

Synonyms:

chock up; cram; jam; jampack; ram; wad

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "wad" is one way to...):

stuff (cram into a cavity)

Verb group:

cram (put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

wad ((often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent)

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