(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.
Wand
Definition:
(n.) A small stick; a rod; a verge.
(n.) A staff of authority.
(n.) A rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All ports were successfully placed under local anesthesia, with catheter tip location determined by an electronic sensor wand.
(2) You can fill the spaces around clinics with unscientific anti-abortion hectoring of women patients while literally filling space by violating women with a trans-vaginal ultrasound wand.
(3) The authors examined the relationship between the number of colonies picked with the Prompt Inoculation Wand and the hemacytometer and viable colony counts for each of six test organisms, including Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida krusei, Candida parapsilosis, Candida glabrata, and Cryptococcus neoformans.
(4) For the past nine years, Iraq ’s security forces have tried to stop car bombs with a British-made bomb detector wand that was long ago proven to be fake.
(5) He had captured the often frenetic atmosphere of Marrakech via "six cameras mounted on a magic wand that were shooting simultaneously as I sped along the crowded streets on the back of a motorbike".
(6) Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organisation, said there was no "magic wand" that could be waved to break down trade barriers.
(7) Using a telemetry signal through a handheld programming wand, nine tracings were completely and clearly recorded for analysis.
(8) Now wave your own wand and grant them the living monthly wage – the £136 the Asia Floor Wage Alliance calculates is needed to support a family in India today (and bear in mind that the women are often the sole earners).
(9) The pump is noninvasively programmed using a hand-held telemetry wand to administer the drug in a continuous infusion, bolus, or bolus-delay mode.
(10) But I think it would be wrong to think that Bob will come in and work with Dan, James and Kyle and wave the magic wand.
(11) There's no magic wand - creating jobs won't simply solve the world's problems Read more It will, however, be subject to a performance agreement, the first of its kind, which will see Britain monitor the fund’s work and withhold 10% of the money if targets are not met.
(12) "There is no single magic wand, but the focus at the summit from the eurozone countries was what particularly the German government could secure.
(13) Light-wand-guided intubation has been reported to be an easily learned, atraumatic alternative to laryngoscopic or blind nasal intubation [6, 9].
(14) Everything here takes three times longer to do than it should and unless you have a magic wand you will have to be patient.
(15) The complete 1H-NMR assignments for horse ferrocytochrome c have been reported by Wand and colleagues and by our group at Oxford.
(16) "They look like wands and they are supposed to bend when they spot a bomb.
(17) It is an ultrasonic wand that, when activated inside any glass of beer – even from a bottle or can – froths up a draught-like head as if pumped from the guts of a country pub.
(18) Hogwarts Castle will sit at the apex of each attraction, and visitors can also dine at the Three Broomsticks pub, pick up a wand at Ollivander's store or snack on sweets from Hogsmead's famous Honeyduke's sweet shop.
(19) Rally organiser Justin Wand will be riding his 1926 Brough SS100: "It was designed in 1925 and guaranteed to have a top speed of 100 mph, an absolute phenomenom at a time when most cars pootled along at about 35 mph."
(20) Reforming the system can only be done if we work together, there are no magic wands.