English to English noun
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a small mass of soft material | | Example: he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
source: wordnet30
2 |
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
3 |
a wad of something chewable as tobacco | | source: wordnet30
4 |
Woad. | | source: webster1913
5 |
A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. | | source: webster1913
6 |
An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There are several varieties. | | source: webster1913 verb
7 |
compress into a wad | | Example: wad paper into the box
source: wordnet30
8 |
crowd or pack to capacity | | Example: the theater was jampacked
source: wordnet30
9 |
To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton. | | source: webster1913
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