wad
1. a small mass of soft material
- he used a wad of cotton to wipe the counter
• Hypernyms:
material, stuff
2. a wad of something chewable as tobacco
• Syn:
chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug
• Derivationally related forms:
chaw (for: chaw), chew (for: chew)
• Hypernyms:
morsel, bit, bite
3. (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
• Syn:
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
• Derivationally related forms:
plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
• Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
1. compress into a wad (Freq. 1)
- wad paper into the box
• Syn:
pack, bundle, compact
• See Also:
bundle off (for: bundle)
• Derivationally related forms:
compaction (for: compact), packing (for: pack)
• Hypernyms:
arrange, set up
• Hyponyms:
puddle
• Verb Group:
compact, pack
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
2. crowd or pack to capacity
- the theater was jampacked
• Syn:
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram
• Derivationally related forms:
jam (for: jam)
• Hypernyms:
stuff
• Verb Group:
cram
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
- Somebody ----s something with something
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