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- DictionaryWad/wäd/
noun
- 1. a lump or bundle of a soft material, used for padding, stuffing, or wiping: "a wad of cotton"
- 2. a bundle of paper, banknotes, or documents: "a thick wad of index cards"
verb
- 1. compress (a soft material) into a lump or mass: "wad the strips over and over so that they ball up"
- 2. line or stuff with wadding: "the quilts are wadded with thick natural cotton"
noun. a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of tobacco. a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco. a small mass of cotton, wool, or other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding, packing, etc. a roll of something, especially of bank notes.
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). [ Origin unknown .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
A wad is a bundle or lump of something, like the wads of chewing gum you'll find if you look under your chair at school. Yuck! Yuck! You can also call a wad a bundle, clump, or ball — most office trash cans contain wads of paper, and making a pillow involves stuffing it with wads of cotton or polyester material.
a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco. a small mass of cotton, wool, or other fibrous or soft material, used for stuffing, padding, packing, etc. a roll of something, especially of bank notes.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English wad1 /wɒd $ wɑːd/ noun [ countable] 1 a thick pile of pieces of paper or thin material wad of a wad of dollar bills 2 a thick soft mass of material that has been pressed together wad of a wad of cotton wool Examples from the Corpus wad • She opened her handbag, and pulled out a wad of banknotes.
4 days ago · 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. a roll or bundle of something, esp of banknotes. 4. US and Canadian slang. a large quantity, esp of money. 5.
Apr 19, 2024 · wad (third-person singular simple present wads, present participle wadding, simple past and past participle wadded) To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball. She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash. ( Ulster) To wager. To insert or force a wad into. to wad a gun.
