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wad 音标拼音: [w'ɑd] n. 圆团,小块,一卷,填料,大量
vt. 揉成圆团,小块,填塞 圆团,小块,一卷,填料,大量揉成圆团,小块,填塞 wad n 1: a small mass of soft material; " he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter" 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" [ synonym: { batch}, { deal}, { flock}, { good deal}, { great deal}, { hatful}, { heap}, { lot}, { mass}, { mess}, { mickle}, { mint}, { mountain}, { muckle}, { passel}, { peck}, { pile}, { plenty}, { pot}, { quite a little}, { raft}, { sight}, { slew}, { spate}, { stack}, { tidy sum}, { wad}] 3: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [ synonym: { chew}, { chaw}, { cud}, { quid}, { plug}, { wad}] v 1: compress into a wad; " wad paper into the box" [ synonym: { pack}, { bundle}, { wad}, { compact}] 2: crowd or pack to capacity; " the theater was jampacked" [ synonym: { jam}, { jampack}, { ram}, { chock up}, { cram}, { wad}] Wad \ Wad\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Wadding}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak. [ 1913 Webster] Wad
Wad \ Wad\, Wadd \ Wadd\, n. ( Min.) ( a) 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. ( b) Plumbago, or black lead. [ 1913 Webster]
Wad \ Wad\, n. [ See { Woad}.] Woad. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster]
Wad \ Wad\, n. [ Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding, Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. { Wadmol}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { Wed hook}, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for removing the wad from a gun. [ 1913 Webster]
Woad \ Woad\, n. [ OE. wod, AS. w[= a] d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [ Written also { wad}, and { wade}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. ( Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ({ Isatis tinctoria}) of the family { Cruciferae} ( syn. { Brassicaceae}). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. See { isatin}. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the { Isatis tinctoria}. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing. [ 1913 Webster] Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] { Wild woad} ( Bot.), the weld ({ Reseda luteola}). See { Weld}. { Woad mill}, a mill grinding and preparing woad. [ 1913 Webster] 123 Moby Thesaurus words for " wad": accumulation, acervation, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregate, aggregation, amassment, bankroll, batch, block, bomb, boodle, brim, bulk, bundle, ceil, charge, chock, chunk, clamp, clod, clump, compress, congeries, congest, conglobation, conglomerate, conglomeration, considerable, cram, crowd, crush, cumulation, deal, ensphere, face, feather, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, freight, fur, gathering, glomeration, gob, gobs, good deal, good sum, great deal, heap, heaps, heaps of gold, hunch, hunk, inlay, interline, jam, jam- pack, jillion, lade, large sum, lashings, line, load, loads, loaf, lot, lots, lump, mass, mess, millions, mint, mint of money, nip, nugget, oodles, overfill, pack, packet, pad, pat, peck, pile, piles, pinch, pot, potful, power of money, press, pretty penny, quantity, quite a little, raft, rafts, ram in, roll, satiate, saturate, scads, shoestring, sight, slew, slews, snowball, spate, squeeze, stack, stacks, stockpile, stuff, supercharge, surfeit, thousands, tidy sum, tighten, top off, tweak, wad up, wads, wainscot, weight, whole slew |
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