(n.) A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance, used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture, padding a garment, etc.
(v. t.) To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
(v. t.) 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.
(n.) Alt. of Wadd
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
(2) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
(3) The structure and morphology of the sternum from 33 West African dwarf (WAD) and sixteen Danish Landrace breed goats were studied radiographically.
(4) Well, he doesn’t have a mandate to break the law and he doesn’t have a mandate for handing out big wads of cash out on the ocean,” she said.
(5) The osmotic fragility of erythrocytes of West African Dwarf (WAD) goats and of WAD sheep was determined at different temperatures and pH.
(6) Look,” Kasich said as he celebrated his big win in his home state of Ohio, “this is all I got.” At this point, he held open his suit jacket to reveal no counterfeit watches, concealed weapons or wads of cash.
(8) Other members of Congress have been hit with wads of "evidence" and demands for meetings by supporters of the birther movement.
(9) When the penalty fine was eventually paid the man peeled a £20 note from a wad of notes that would have choked a donkey.
(10) I sit in the control room for one session, as the composer leafs through a vast wad of papers, and calmly speaks directions to the assembled musicians on the other side of a glass divide.
(11) He and his entourage would spend raucous weekends in luxury resorts, paying with wads of cash pulled carelessly from their pockets.
(12) There are also discussed the infectious complications of the nasal wads and great stress is laid upon avoiding errors in therapeutical measures.
(13) Labor’s immigration spokesman Richard Marles said Abbott’s refusal to deny the practice had left the door wide open to the idea the government was handing wads of taxpayer’s cash to smugglers.
(14) One hundred fifty patients suffering from severe protein-calorie malnutrition, admitted in 1 month to the Pediatric wards of Wad Medani Hospital, Sudan, were classified according to the Wellcome classification.
(15) Even as he handed out wads of petrodollars to impoverished developing countries, their leaders mocked him behind his back for being a buffoon and a clown.
(16) Water samples from four areas [Kass, Kosti, Wad Medani and Omdurman] two of which are known for endemic goitre did not appear to have any goitrogenic effect in our preliminary experiment using porcine thyroid follicle cell preparations.
(17) Another three WAD goats were artificially infected with mixed cultures of L3 of the latter three nematodes, while five goats were inoculated with 1500-2000 L3 of H. contortus harvested from cultures incubated at 25-30 degrees C for 8 days either in the dark or under normal laboratory conditions.
(18) They didn’t feel like they needed to blow their wad in the trailers.” There’s not an ounce of cynicism in his enthusiasm.
(19) Just need to make it count in the red zone and not blow their metaphorical wad on stupid plays."
(20) At the end of the period of exposure the substance remaining on the skin was recovered with the aid of cotton wads or Tesa adhesive tape and the spectrum of metabolites in the skin and the rinsing fluid determined by thin-layer chromatography.
Wady
Definition:
(n.) A ravine through which a brook flows; the channel of a water course, which is dry except in the rainy season.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1 Forge the Malaqi Trail: Wadi Mujib, Jordan From its northern reaches in Syria, the Great Rift Valley cuts a swathe through Jordan, pushing up the mountains that define many of the country's beautiful and well-managed nature reserves.
(2) Within hours, federalist militias, backed by some units from Libya's small regular army, had set up a defence line at the Red Wadi, a natural feature that blocks the way to the oil ports.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents return to inspect their homes in the Wadi Al-Sayeh neighbourhood of Homs in May following the fall of the city to Assad forces.
(4) For an intimate encounter with this geology and the water that helped to form it, head to the canyon systems of Wadi Mujib to take on the Malaqi Trail, a sandstone assault course of rocky scrambles and dizzying waterfall rappels.
(5) We turned half-right in the plain, to get under cover of the low hills which screened it from Wadi Hamdh, in whose bed the railway lay.
(6) Winning tip Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman You might not imagine the Middle East as a swimmer's paradise, but Wadi Bani Khalid in Oman's Sharqiyah region is a lush oasis.
(7) They wandered for several months looking for help and accommodation, and ended up in the village of Knaisse in Wadi Khaled, only three miles from their Syrian home.
(8) The NNA report said that the explosion took place on the road between Sbouba and Wadi Abu Mousa.
(9) In the present paper the first record is made from Wadi Derna (= Darnah), East coast of Libya.
(10) Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police clashed with hundreds of Palestinians in Ras al-Amud and Wadi Joz in the eastern part of the city.
(11) · Edward Wadie Said, writer and academic, born November 1 1935; died September 25 2003
(12) Jathran's rebels have vowed to hold the Red Wadi, in what some see as a de facto partition of Libya.
(13) He replaced the pope with a panel of five bishops and banished him to Wadi Natrun .
(14) The attack came as fighters seeking to remove the Assad regime attacked the president's forces around a large airbase in Idlib province and also around the Wadi Deif base in north-western Syria and as the international airport in Aleppo was once again closed to flights.
(15) As you come through the military checkpoints on the way into Wadi Khaled, local mobile phones bleep with an unsolicited text: "The Ministry of Tourism welcomes you to Syria ."
(16) From there I camped along New Zealand's coast, starting at Cape Reinga, went on to sleep out on beaches in Fiji and Tahiti, bedded down on ledges in America's national parks, slept by the fireside, Bedouin-style, in Wadi Rum and under a lavvu – a traditional Sami tent, a bit like a wigwam – in Finland in -40C.
(17) Populations from the five permanent Wadis Kabir, Rasyan, Al Barh, Zabid, and Surdud were genetically and morphologically very uniform.
(18) Wadie Said revealed little about himself or the source of his money, but certainly Edward and his sisters never wanted for anything, travelling with battalions of servants, summering (after 1947) in the cultivated comfort of Dhour el Shweir in Lebanon, enjoying sumptuous dinners on transatlantic liners.
(19) Light-induced fast transient absorbance changes were detected by time-resolved spectroscopy in 38 of 51 haloalkaliphilic isolates from alkaline salt lakes in Kenya and the Wadi Natrun in Egypt.
(20) Morsi was detained without charge during the initial days of the uprising and fled Egypt’s Wadi Natroun prison after it was stormed and the guards overpowered.