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- Dictionarywad/wɒd/
noun
- 1. a mass or lump of a soft material, used for padding, stuffing, or wiping: "a wad of lint-free rag" Similar
- 2. a bundle or roll of paper or banknotes: "she held up a wad of greenbacks" Similar
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"
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WAD definition: 1. a number of usually flat and/or small objects pressed tightly together: 2. to fold or press…. Learn more.
1. : a small mass, bundle, or tuft: such as. a. : a soft mass especially of a loose fibrous material variously used (as to stop an aperture, pad a garment, or hold grease around an axle) b (1) : a soft plug used to retain a powder charge or to avoid windage especially in a muzzle-loading gun. (2)
a number of usually flat and/or small objects pressed tightly together: a wad of twenty-dollar bills. a wad of gum. She used a wad (= a mass) of tissues to wipe away the blood. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Groups and collections of things. age bracket. agglomerate. agglomeration. Aladdin's cave. anthology. array. basket. crop.
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. Informal. a comparatively large stock or quantity of something, especially money: He's got a healthy wad salted away.
1. a small mass or ball of fibrous or soft material, such as cotton wool, used esp for packing or stuffing. 2. 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.
wad. 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! 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.
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.
wad. 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 ...
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.
WAD definition: 1. a thick pile of pieces of paper, especially paper money: 2. a piece of soft material in the…. Learn more.
