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English to English noun
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a small mass of soft material |
• he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
source: wordnet30
| 2 |
(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
source: wordnet30
| 3 |
a wad of something chewable as tobacco | source: wordnet30 source: webster1913
| 5 |
A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. | source: webster1913
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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 Example:
• wad paper into the box
source: wordnet30
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crowd or pack to capacity |
• 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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