different between wade vs wads

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /we?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophones: wayed, weighed, wheyed

Etymology 1

From Middle English waden, from Old English wadan, from Proto-Germanic *wadan?, from Proto-Indo-European *weh?d?- (“to go”). Cognates include German waten (“wade”) and Latin v?d? (“go, walk; rush”) (whence English evade, invade, pervade).

Verb

wade (third-person singular simple present wades, present participle wading, simple past and past participle waded)

1. (intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII

     After breakfast the men set out to hunt, while the women went to a large pool of warm water covered with a green scum and filled with billions of tadpoles. They waded in to where the water was about a foot deep and lay down in the mud. They remained there from one to two hours and then returned to the cliff.

2. (intransitive) to progress with difficulty

   • And wades through fumes, and gropes his way.
3. (transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading

4. (intransitive) To enter recklessly.

Translations

Noun

wade (plural wades)

1. An act of wading.

2. (colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.

Translations

Related terms

• wade in
• wade through

Etymology 2

Noun

wade (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of woad.

References

• wade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Dawe, Dewa, awed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?.d?/
• Hyphenation: wa?De
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch wade, from Old Dutch *watho, from Proto-Germanic *waþwô.

Cognate with German Wade (“calf (of leg)”), Swedish vad (“calf (of leg)”) and Afrikaans waai (“popliteal”).

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

1. popliteus

Descendants

• Afrikaans: waai

Etymology 2

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

1. shroud

Derived terms

• lijkwade

Related terms

• gewaad

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch wade, reformed from waet through influence of the collective gewade (modern gewaad). Further from Old Dutch *w?t, from Proto-Germanic *w?d-.

Cognate with Middle High German w?t, Old Saxon w?d, Old English w?d, Old Norse váð.

Noun

wade f (plural waden, diminutive waadje n)

1. type of trawl

Synonyms

• schrobnet

Hypernyms

• sleepnet

Etymology 4

Verb

wade

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of waden

Middle English

Verb

wade

1. Alternative form of waden

English

Noun

wads

1. plural of wad

Anagrams

• AWDS, AWDs, DAWs, Daws, WASD, daws, swad