Wad
WordNet
noun
(1) A wad of something chewable as tobacco
(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"
"It must have cost plenty"
(3) A small mass of soft material
"He used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter"
verb
(4) Compress into a wad
"Wad paper into the box"
(5) Crowd or pack to capacity
"The theater was jampacked"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
- With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
- A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
- an ejaculate of semen.
- Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits
Verb
- To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
- She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
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Noun
wad
- wad (manganese ore)