wading
(noun) walking with your feet in shallow water
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wading (not comparable)
Appropriate to wade in.
Which wades (usually said of birds).
wading
present participle of wade
wading (countable and uncountable, plural wadings)
The act of one who wades.
• dawing
Source: Wiktionary
Wad"ing,
Definition: a. & n. from Wade, v. Wading bird. (Zoöl.) See Wader, 2.
Wade, n.
Definition: Woad. [Obs.] Mortimer.
Wade, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Waded; p. pr. & vb. n. Wading.] Etym: [OE. waden to wade, to go, AS. wadan; akin to OFries. wada, D. waden, OHG. watan, Icel. va, Sw. vada, Dan. vade, L. vadere to go, walk, vadum a ford. Cf. Evade, Invade, Pervade, Waddle.]
1. To go; to move forward. [Obs.] When might is joined unto cruelty, Alas, too deep will the venom wade. Chaucer. Forbear, and wade no further in this speech. Old Play.
2. To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc. So eagerly the fiend . . . With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. Milton.
3. Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed as, to wade through a dull book. And wades through fumes, and gropes his way. Dryden. The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. Davenant.
Wade, v. t.
Definition: To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded .
Wade, n.
Definition: The act of wading. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
