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圓團,小塊,一卷,填料,大量揉成圓團,小塊,填塞
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Wad \Wad\, n. [See {Woad}.]
Woad. [Obs.]
Wad \Wad\, n. [Probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vadd wadding,
Dan vat, D. & G. watte. Cf. {Wadmol}.]
1. A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow.
--Holland.
2. 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.
3. A soft mass, especially of some loose, fibrous substance,
used for various purposes, as for stopping an aperture,
padding a garment, etc.
{Wed hook}, a rod with a screw or hook at the end, used for
removing the wad from a gun.
Wad \Wad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wadding}.]
1. To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad
tow or cotton.
2. 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.
Wad \Wad\, Wadd \Wadd\, n. (Min.)
(a) An earthy oxide of manganese, or mixture of different
oxides and water, with some oxide of iron, and often
silica, alumina, lime, or baryta; black ocher. There
are several varieties.
(b) Plumbago, or black lead.
資料來源 : WordNet®
wad
n 1: (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" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good
deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess},
{mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot},
{quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack},
{tidy sum}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
2: a wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: {chew}, {chaw},
{cud}, {quid}, {plug}]
[also: {wadding}, {wadded}]
wad
v 1: compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box" [syn: {pack},
{bundle}, {compact}]
2: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn:
{jam}, {jampack}, {ram}, {chock up}, {cram}]
[also: {wadding}, {wadded}]