(n.) A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made.
(n.) Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
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.
(1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
(2) In the Proposition 8 legal action, the supreme court could decide: • There is a constitutional right, under the equal protection clauses, for gay couples to wed, in which case the laws in 30 states prohibiting same-sex marriages are overturned.
(3) The aim of this paper is to elucidate the process of identity formation with particular emphasis on how the 'work ego' of each analyst is formed through various experiences which help the practitioner wed theoretical knowledge with clinical experience.
(4) Indeed, the best that many wedding service liturgies can do to insist that Jesus himself supported the institution of marriage is to say that he once turned up at one.
(5) She said: “We felt it would be quite hypocritical [to have a church wedding] when it’s not really what we believe in.
(6) A brief courtship was followed by a surprise wedding.
(7) One couple made the point graphically: she wore a red-stained wedding dress and her partner wore a sign that read, “I am the rapist”.
(8) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(9) I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on anything apart from my wedding dress,” Morgan said.
(10) One commentator has labelled the Pitt and Jolie wedding “normcore” by comparison.
(11) More than 120 couples joined the mass on Sunday morning to renew their wedding vows and celebrate more than 1,700 years of marriage between them.
(12) They are doing it not because they believe the 66-year-old can win in 2020, but for the same reason people retweet images of same-sex wedding ceremonies.
(13) By design these plants are adjacent to the AEC's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and such a location would seem ideal for an experiment on the wedding of nuclear and fossil sources of energy.
(14) It’s the frontrunner, has the critics on its side and is certainly the Film to Tick Without Watching, but the academy have a track record of shotgun weddings with watchable wild cards in this category – see the wins for The Lives of Others and The Secret in Their Eyes .
(15) The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
(16) magazine-contracted, half-million pound wedding, Posh and Becks sat on a pair of golden thrones.
(17) When Emma Horan and Sam Whitney get married next summer they will commit themselves to each other in a special place, surrounded by their family and closest friends, but, as things stand, the wedding ceremony will not be recognised in law because their belief system is not based on religion.
(18) He conducted his first mass wedding in Seoul in the early 1960s.
(19) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
(20) A newly wed Mohamed Amine Benmbarek passed away while his wife received 3 shots and is in critical condition at the hospital.” Francois-Xavier Prevost, 26, France La Voix du Nord reports Prevost was killed at the Bataclan.