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Wad vs Unwadded - What's the difference?

wad | unwadded |

As verbs the difference between wad and unwadded

is that wad is to crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball while unwadded is past tense of unwad.

As a noun wad

is an amorphous, compact mass.

As an acronym WAD

is it works as designed.

As an adjective unwadded is

not having been wadded.

wad

English

(wikipedia wad)

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An amorphous, compact mass.
    • Our cat loves to play with a small wad of paper.
  • A substantial pile (normally of money).
    • With a wad of cash like that, she should not have been walking round Manhattan
  • A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
  • (slang) A sandwich.
  • (vulgar, slang) An ejaculate of semen.
  • (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.

    • Derived terms

    * (ejaculate) blow one's wad, shoot one's wad

    See also

    * (Wad)

    Verb

    (wadd)
  • To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
    • She wadded up the scrap of paper and threw it in the trash.
  • (Ulster) To wager.
  • To insert or force a wad into.
    • to wad a gun
  • To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.
    • to wad a cloak

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    unwadded

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unwad)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Not having been wadded.

    • unwad

    English

    Verb

    (unwadd)
  • To unfold (something wadded).
  • * 1999 , Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger, Chicken soup for the college soul (page 37)
    • and he's never in his life managed to unwad a pair of socks before putting them in the hamper.
  • * 2009 , Terri Blackstock, Double Minds
    • Glancing back at the bathroom, she picked up and unwadded the paper. It was nothing. Just some download instructions from a computer help screen.