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WAD
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Irregular inflected forms: wadded , wadding
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wad of something chewable as tobacco
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 extent
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 material
Example:
he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
Classified under:
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 ... he / she / it wads
Past simple: wadded
Past participle: wadded
-ing form: wadding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Compress into a wad
Example:
wad paper into the box
Synonyms:
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 capacity
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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