wad

wad

 (wŏd)

n.

1. A small mass of soft material, often folded or rolled, used for padding, stuffing, or packing.

2. A compressed ball, roll, or lump, as of tobacco or chewing gum.

3.

a. A plug, as of cloth or paper, used to retain a powder charge in a muzzleloading gun or cannon.

b. A disk, as of felt or paper, used to keep the powder and shot in place in a shotgun cartridge.

4. Informal A large amount: a wad of troubles.

5. Informal

a. A sizable roll of paper money.

b. A considerable amount of money.

6. Vulgar Slang An ejaculation of semen.

tr.v. wad·ded, wad·ding, wads

1. To compress into a wad: wad a candy wrapper.

2. To pad, pack, line, or plug with wadding: wad a keyhole.

3.

a. To hold (shot or powder) in place with a wad.

b. To insert a wad into (a firearm).

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[Origin unknown.]

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wad

(wɒd)

n

1. (Textiles) a small mass or ball of fibrous or soft material, such as cotton wool, used esp for packing or stuffing

2. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery)

a. a plug of paper, cloth, leather, etc, pressed against a charge to hold it in place in a muzzle-loading cannon

b. a disc of paper, felt, pasteboard, etc, used to hold in place the powder and shot in a shotgun cartridge

3. (Banking & Finance) a roll or bundle of something, esp of banknotes

4. (Banking & Finance) slang US and Canadian a large quantity, esp of money

5. (Agriculture) dialect Brit a bundle of hay or straw

6. military slang Brit a bun: char and a wad.

vb, wads, wadding or wadded

7. to form (something) into a wad

8. (tr) to roll into a wad or bundle

9. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (tr)

a. to hold (a charge) in place with a wad

b. to insert a wad into (a gun)

10. (tr) to pack or stuff with wadding; pad

[C14: from Late Latin wadda; related to German Watte cotton wool]

ˈwadder n

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wad

(wɒd)

n

(Geological Science) a soft dark earthy amorphous material consisting of decomposed manganese minerals: occurs in damp marshy areas

[C17: of unknown origin]

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wad

(wɒd)

n., v. wad•ded, wad•ding. n.

1. a small mass or ball of anything.

2. a small mass of cotton, wool, or the like, used for padding, packing, etc.

3. a roll of something, esp. of bank notes.

4. a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, esp. money.

5. a plug of cloth, paper, or the like, used to hold the powder or shot, or both, in place in a muzzleloading gun or a cartridge.

v.t.

6. to form (material) into a wad.

7. to roll tightly (often fol. by up): He wadded up his cap.

8. to stuff with a wad.

9. to fill out with or as if with wadding.

v.i.

10. to become formed into a wad.

[1530–40; < Medieval Latin wadda < Arabic bāṭa'in lining of a garment, batting; compare French ouate, Dutch watte, Swedish vadd]

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Wad

 a little amount; a tuft or bundle; a heap or swathe.

Examples: wad of banknotes, 1899; of beans, 1856; of clovergrass, 1750; of cotton (a plug), 1861; of greenbacks (U. S. money); of groans; of hay, 1596; of hemp, 1799; of linen (to carry on the head), 1752; of lupins, 1601; of money; of peas, 1620; of reeds, 1886; of straw, 1573; of tobacco; of tow; of wheat, 1763.

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wad

Past participle: wadded
Gerund: wadding

Imperative

wad

wad

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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wad - a small mass of soft material; "he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter" material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
	2.	wad - (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" good deal, great deal, hatful, lot, muckle, passel, peck, mickle, mint, quite a little, slew, spate, tidy sum, stack, raft, mountain, pile, plenty, mass, batch, heap, deal, flock, pot, mess, sight large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity - an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude deluge, flood, inundation, torrent - an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" haymow - a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation
	3.	wad - a wad of something chewable as tobacco chaw, chew, cud, plug, quid bite, morsel, bit - a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread"
Verb	1.	wad - compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" compact, pack, bundle arrange, set up - put into a proper or systematic order; "arrange the books on the shelves in chronological order" compact, pack - have the property of being packable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well" puddle - work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
	2.	wad - crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" chock up, cram, jampack, ram, jam stuff - cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets" cram - put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase"

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wad

noun

1. bundle, roll, bankroll (U.S. & Canad.), pocketful a wad of banknotes

2. mass, ball, lump, hunk, piece, block, plug, chunk a wad of cotton wool

3. plug, twist, chew, quid He spat out a great wad of tobacco.

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wad

noun

1. An irregularly shaped mass of indefinite size:

chunk, clod, clump, gob, hunch, lump, nugget.

Informal: hunk.

2. Informal. An indeterminately great amount or number:

jillion, million (often used in plural), multiplicity, ream, trillion.

Informal: bushel, gob (often used in plural), heap (often used in plural), load (often used in plural), lot, oodles, passel, peck, scad (often used in plural), slew, zillion.

3. Informal. A large sum of money:

fortune, mint.

Informal: bundle, pretty penny, tidy sum.

Slang: pile.

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Translations

batuffolofare un tamponerotolosandwich gigante

wad

[wɒd]

A. N (= stuffing) → taco m, tapón m; (in gun, cartridge) → taco m; [of cotton wool] → bolita f; [of papers] → fajo m, lío m; [of banknotes] → fajo m
wads of money → un dineral

B. VT (stuff) → rellenar (Sew) → acolchar

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wad

[ˈwɒd] n

[cotton wool, paper] → tampon m

[banknotes] → liasse f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

wad

n

(= compact mass) → Knäuel m or nt; (in gun, cartridge) → Pfropfen m; (of cotton wool etc) → Bausch m; to use something as a wad → etw zum Ausstopfen or als Polster benutzen

(of papers, banknotes) → Bündel nt; he’s got wads of money (inf) → er hat Geld wie Heu (inf)

vt (= secure, stuff) → stopfen; (= squeeze) → zusammenknüllen; (Sew) → wattieren

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wad

[wɒd] n (of cloth) → tampone m; (of chewing gum, putty) → pallina; (of cotton wool) → batuffolo; (of papers, banknotes) → fascio

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