Gad vs Wander - What's the difference?
gad | wander |
An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to 'by God', 'goodness gracious', 'for goodness' sake'.
To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.
* 1852 , Alice Cary,
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A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
* 1885 ,
(obsolete) A metal bar.
* 1485 , Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XV:
* Moxon
A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock, especially in mining.
* Shakespeare
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 327:
(dated, metallurgy) An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 146.
A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
(UK, US, dialect) A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
(lb) To move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.
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*(Bible), (w) xi.37:
*:They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
(lb) To stray; stray from one's course; err.
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*(Bible), (Psalms) cxix.10:
*:O, let me not wander from thy commandments.
(lb) To commit adultery.
(lb) To go somewhere indirectly or at varying speeds; to move in a curved path.
(lb) Of the mind, to lose focus or clarity of argument or attention.
As nouns the difference between gad and wander
is that gad is iron bar while wander is the act or instance of wandering.As a verb wander is
(lb) to move without purpose or specified destination; often in search of livelihood.gad
English
Etymology 1
Taboo deformation of (God).Interjection
(en interjection)- 1905' '' That's the trouble -- it was too easy for you -- you got reckless -- thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. But, by '''gad , that ain't playing fair: that's dodging the rules of the game.'' — Edith Wharton, ''
House of Mirth.
Derived terms
* egads * egadEtymology 2
(etyl) .Verb
(gadd)Clovernook ....
- This, I suppose, is the virgin who abideth still in the house with you. She is not given, I hope, to gadding overmuch, nor to vain and foolish decorations of her person with ear-rings and finger-rings, and crisping-pins: for such are unprofitable, yea, abominable.
Synonyms
* gallivantDerived terms
* gadabout * gaddish, gaddishnessEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Detroit Free Press., December 17
- Twain finds his voice after a short search for it and when he impels it forward it is a good, strong, steady voice in harness until the driver becomes absent-minded, when it stops to rest, and then the gad must be used to drive it on again.
- they sette uppon hym and drew oute their swerdys to have slayne hym – but there wolde no swerde byghte on hym more than uppon a gadde of steele, for the Hyghe Lorde which he served, He hym preserved.
- Flemish steel some in bars and some in gads .
- I will go get a leaf of brass, / And with a gad of steel will write these words.
- Frank was able to keep his eyes open long enough to check his bed with a miner's gad and douse the electric lamp
- ''Twice a day a 'gad' of iron, i.e., a bloom weighing 1 cwt. was produced, which took from six to seven hours.
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