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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wade
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wading pool
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
ashore
▪ Thousands of High Elves were cut down by crossbow fire as they waded ashore.
▪ We waded ashore coughing up salt water and drenched to the skin.
▪ They waded ashore just below their lonely hut.
▪ He anchored his boat in hip-deep water about 25 yards from the beach, and we waded ashore like General Douglas MacArthur.
▪ My companions hurriedly dropped me off at Chateaubelair, near Richmond, leaving me to wade ashore waist deep.
▪ After a moment, he waded ashore and sat down.
in
▪ Or they could wade in with a cure.
▪ They never even try, like people living beside a lake they never even go wading in, much less swim-ming.
▪ He wades in among the pair of them, grabs their studded leather collars and starts yanking them away.
▪ You assume an identity and wade in.
▪ BSandra assures her it is not and says that if Tamika wades in, she will get a very special surprise.
▪ Christophe Lamaison, who converted both, waded in with the penalty that gave the scoreline a hallucinatory appearance.
▪ He waded in with his sword swinging, and felt the jar down his arm as it almost decapitated an animal.
out
▪ Sam scrambles up and wades out to the bird.
▪ On impulse, the boy waded out as far as he dared, and called.
▪ He waded out to the craft and held her bows while Gomez shed shoes and socks and rolled up his Oxfords.
▪ She shook her head and waded out to the boat and hopped in.
▪ I was the youngest of the three boys who decided to wade out to Black Rock.
▪ The surfer wades out some distance, and waits for a good-sized wave.
▪ But at the time I was just hurt that I couldn't wade out into the lake and save them.
through
▪ The fallen clothes were as difficult to wade through as thick mud.
▪ Fourteen props are a lot for voters to wade through.
▪ Be patient if you have to wade through a sea of red tape before you even get to the starting line.
■ NOUN
water
▪ He moved slowly, like a tired man wading through cold water.
▪ The men waded fast through the water after him, crouching, firing short bursts towards the trees.
▪ We're off again, now wading almost waist-deep in water, stopping, starting, bumping into the man in front.
▪ He waded shin-deep in water, with the slow-motion gait of a man wading through a dream.
▪ He undressed her, and held her hand while she waded into the water up to her knees, splashing and shouting.
▪ People waded into the water and dropped roses in the surf.
▪ Holding on to him I stepped in, and we waded across, in water up to our ankles.
▪ The tide had now retreated, forcing us to wade through shallow water, kayaks in tow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ They waded across the river.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few family members waded into the surf and tossed flowers.
▪ He'd gladly wade into the attack.
▪ He moved slowly, like a tired man wading through cold water.
▪ Personnel managers and employers are busy people and do not have time to wade through a thirty page resume.
▪ She moved as if she were in a dream, wading through viscous liquid.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
wade

Woad \Woad\, n. [OE. wod, AS. w[=a]d; akin to D. weede, G. waid, OHG. weit, Dan. vaid, veid, Sw. veide, L. vitrum.] [Written also wad, and wade.]

  1. (Bot.) An herbaceous cruciferous plant ( Isatis tinctoria) of the family Cruciferae (syn. Brassicaceae). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. See isatin.

  2. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.

    Their bodies . . . painted with woad in sundry figures.
    --Milton.

    Wild woad (Bot.), the weld ( Reseda luteola). See Weld.

    Woad mill, a mill grinding and preparing woad.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wade

Old English wadan "to go forward, proceed, move, stride, advance" (the modern sense perhaps represented in oferwaden "wade across"), from Proto-Germanic *wadan (cognates: Old Norse vaða, Danish vade, Old Frisian wada, Dutch waden, Old High German watan, German waten "to wade"), from PIE root *wadh- (2) "to go," found only in Germanic and Latin (cognates: Latin vadere "to go," vadum "shoal, ford," vadare "to wade"). Italian guado, French gué "ford" are Germanic loan-words.\n

\nSpecifically "walk into or through water" (or any substance which impedes the free motion of limbs) c.1200. Originally a strong verb (past tense wod, past participle wad); weak since 16c. Figurative sense of "to go into" (action, battle, etc.) is recorded from late 14c. Related: Waded; wading.\n\nForbade to wade through slaughter to a throne,\n
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind,\n

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[Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"]

Wiktionary
wade

Etymology 1 n. an act of wading vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to walk through water or something that impedes progress. 2 (context intransitive English) to progress with difficulty 3 (context transitive English) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading 4 (context intransitive English) To enter recklessly. Etymology 2

n. (obsolete form of woad English)

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WordNet
wade

v. walk (through relatively shallow water); "Can we wade across the river to the other side?"; "Wade the pond"

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Gazetteer
Wade, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000): 480
Housing Units (2000): 220
Land area (2000): 1.305882 sq. miles (3.382218 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009230 sq. miles (0.023906 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.315112 sq. miles (3.406124 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70340
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.161774 N, 78.732977 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 28395
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wade, NC
Wade
Wade, MS -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Mississippi
Population (2000): 491
Housing Units (2000): 174
Land area (2000): 4.361655 sq. miles (11.296635 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.024565 sq. miles (0.063622 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.386220 sq. miles (11.360257 sq. km)
FIPS code: 77080
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 30.641942 N, 88.551069 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wade, MS
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Wikipedia
Wade

Wade, WADE, or Wades may refer to:

Wade (folklore)

Wade ( Old English Wada ), is the English name for a common Germanic mythological character who, depending on location, is also known as Vadi (Norse) and Wate (Middle High German).

WADE (AM)

WADE is an AM Radio Station broadcasting on 1340 kHz. The station is owned by New Life Community Temple of Faith, Inc., and the city of license is Wadesboro, North Carolina.

The station broadcasts an Urban Gospel music format, with various preaching programs throughout the day.

Wade (surname)

Wade is a surname. The English surname Wade has two derivations: a Middle English given name "Wade", itself derived from the Anglo-Saxon name "Wada"; the second derivation is from the word or place-name "wade", meaning a ford (Wade being applied either to one who lived near a ford, or in a settlement called Wade, e.g. Wade, Suffolk).

Notable people with the surname include:

  • Abdoulaye Wade (born 1926), President of Senegal
  • Ainley Wade, pharmaceutical historian and former editor of Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia
  • April Wade, American actress and producer
  • Benjamin Wade (1800–1878), American lawyer and United States Senator from Ohio
  • Bernie L. Wade (born 1963), American minister, President of the International Circle of Faith
  • Bill Wade (born 1930), former American footballer
  • Bobby Wade (born 1981), American footballer
  • Charles Wade (1863–1922), Premier of New South Wales (1907–10)
  • Chris Wade (real estate broker), real estate broker involved in the American Whitewater scandal
  • Christopher Wade, English martyr
  • Cory Wade (born 1983), American Major League Baseball player
  • David Wade (general) (1911–1990), American lieutenant general
  • David Wade (politician) (born 1950), Australian former politician
  • Donald Wade, Baron Wade (1904–1988), British Liberal Party politician
  • Doug Wade (born 1941), former Australian rules footballer
  • Dwyane Wade (born 1982), American basketball player
  • Ed Wade (born 1956), general manager of the Major League Baseball Houston Astros
  • George Wade (1673–1748), British military commander
  • Henry Wade (1914–2001), Texas lawyer and lead defendant in Roe v. Wade
  • Henry William Rawson Wade (commonly known as William Wade; 1918–2004), British legal academic
  • Henry Wade, pen name of British mystery writer Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet (1887-1969)
  • James Wade (born 1983), English darts player
  • Jason Wade (born 1980), singer/songwriter
  • Jeremy Wade (born 1956), British TV presenter (River Monsters) and fishing author
  • John Francis Wade (1711–1786), English composer
  • Joseph Augustine Wade (1796–1845), Irish composer
  • Mark Wade (born 1965), American retired basketball player
  • Mark Sweeten Wade (1859–1929), Canadian medical doctor and historian
  • Martin Joseph Wade (1861–1931), U.S. Democratic Representative from Iowa
  • Mary Wade (1777–1859), the youngest convict transported to Australia aboard the Lady Juliana
  • Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (1860–1936), American writer
  • Mary Virginia "Ginnie" Wade (1843-1863), the only civilian casualty in the Battle of Gettysburg
  • Mary Wade (paleontologist) (1928–2005), Australian paleontologist
  • Matthew Wade (born 1987), Australian cricketer
  • Michael Wade, deceased Canadian actor
  • Nicholas Wade (born 1942 in England), US science writer and author
  • Paul Wade (born 1962), retired Australian footballer
  • Rebekah Wade, afterwards Rebekah Brooks, English journalist
  • Robert Wade (disambiguation), several
  • Rosalind Wade (1909–1989), British novelist
  • Scott Wade (born 1960), former Australian rules footballer
  • Thomas M. Wade (1860-1929), American politician and educator
  • Thomas Wade (writer) (1805–1875), English poet and dramatist
  • Thomas Francis Wade (1818–1895), British diplomat and sinologist
  • Thomas James Wade (1893-1969), American Roman Catholic bishop
  • Virginia Wade (born 1945), tennis player from the United Kingdom
  • Wallace Wade (1892–1986), American college sports coach
  • Wayne Wade (born 1959), Jamaican reggae musician
Wade (given name)

Wade is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Wade Allison (born 1941), British physicist and Oxford professor
  • Wade Belak (1976–2011), former National Hockey League player
  • Wade Boggs (born 1958), former Major League Baseball player
  • Wade Cunningham (born 1984), New Zealand race car driver
  • Wade Davis (anthropologist) (born 1953), Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer
  • Wade Davis (baseball) (born 1985), Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Wade Hampton (disambiguation), various persons of that name
  • Wade Hayes (born 1969), American country music artist
  • Wade Helliwell, (born 1978) retired Australian basketball player
  • Wade Houston, former collegiate basketball player and coach, father of former National Basketball Association player Alan Houston
  • Wade MacNeil (born 1984), Canadian singer and guitarist of post-hardcore band Alexisonfire
  • Wade Mainer (1907–2011), American singer and banjoist
  • Wade Miley (born 1986), Major League Baseball pitcher
  • Wade Phillips (born 1947), National Football League defensive coordinator and former head coach
  • Wade Rathke (born 1948), co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
  • Wade Redden (born 1977), National Hockey League player
  • Wade Regehr, Professor of Neurobiology in Harvard Medical School's Department of Neurobiology
  • Wade Robson (born 1982), Australian dancer, director, producer, songwriter and choreographer
  • Wade Schalles (born 1951), American champion amateur wrestler
  • Wade Ward (1892–1971), American old-time music banjo player and fiddler
  • Wade Watts (1919–1998), African American gospel preacher and civil rights activist
  • Wade Whitehouse (1970-present), English carpenter
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Usage examples of "wade".

The sailors watched for an age as the troops, some walking, more carried, waded out into the surf and shuffled aboard the French transports.

Rather than take the time to cross on the bridge, she waded into the acequia, the water coming only to her knees.

Wade was not sustained by the Senate and the motion to adjourn was carried by 33 to 12.

The description of the black forest with the evil stone, and of the terrible cosmic adumbrations when the horror is finally extirpated, will repay one for wading through the very gradual action and plethora of Scottish dialect.

He was nearing the apiary, wading through tall grass and wildflowers, aware of their scent and of the faint buzz in the air.

Brazil waded through the tall grass at the edge of the apiary, his mouth dry and a twisting knot in his stomach.

In this marsh, too, the children sometimes saw that singular bird, the Avoset, with its curious curved bill, its noisy clamor, and its long legs, bending and tottering under him, as he ran about the marsh or waded into its pools.

You must dress in short skins like the Baptist to keep from getting your clothes soaked when wading across them.

So Wade comes into town, meets a bimbette named Nickie at a local bar and they have a tumble.

Then Bowles had prepared herself for the refugee story, willing to wade into crowds of Disty at the port, asking them how they would deal with the dislocation in their lives.

As a rule the Martians, when it had served its purpose, cleared the air of it again by wading into it and directing a jet of steam upon it.

In her dark hair was the likeness of the horned moon in honey-coloured cymophanes every stone whereof held a straight beam of light imprisoned that quivered and gleamed as sunbeams quiver wading in the clear deeps of a summer sea.

Elizabeth considered joining her, calculated the length of time it would take to dry out the doeskin dress and leggings, and turned back to the shore where she waded, gathering as many of the fresh-water mussels as she could carry in her tented skirt.

He quickened his pace, hopped over the gutter, and waded down the dragging muck in the middle of Rue Douane, keeping clear of the rough shacks and stucco cottages on either side.

She was still engaged in this unrewarding task when Professor van Duyl arrived, wading down the path, a broad plank of wood over one shoulder.