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WADE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)

Synonyms:

Virginia Wade; Wade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

Derivation:

wade (walk (through relatively shallow water))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk (through relatively shallow water)

Example:

Wade the pond

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "wade" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wade"):

puddle (wade or dabble in a puddle)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

These men wade across the river

Derivation:

Wade (English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945))

wader (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

wading (walking with your feet in shallow water)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Then the wheels of memory slipped ahead through four years of time, and he was aware of the present, of the books he had opened and the universe he had won from their pages, of his dreams and ambitions, and of his love for a pale wraith of a girl, sensitive and sheltered and ethereal, who would die of horror did she witness but one moment of what he had just lived through—one moment of all the muck of life through which he had waded.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

My favourite seat was a smooth and broad stone, rising white and dry from the very middle of the beck, and only to be got at by wading through the water; a feat I accomplished barefoot.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The wood was pretty open, and keeping along the lower spurs, I had soon turned the corner of that hill, and not long after waded to the mid-calf across the watercourse.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I then took off my spectacles, and waiting about an hour, till the tide was a little fallen, I waded through the middle with my cargo, and arrived safe at the royal port of Lilliput.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

With all this in our minds, we waded ashore as fast as we could, leaving behind us the poor jolly-boat and a good half of all our powder and provisions.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief, for I was filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home; where the queen was soon informed of what had passed, and the footmen spread it about the court: so that all the mirth for some days was at my expense.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But where Silver stood with his lieutenant, all was still in shadow, and they waded knee-deep in a low white vapour that had crawled during the night out of the morass.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I seized a large man of war, tied a cable to the prow, and, lifting up the anchors, I stripped myself, put my clothes (together with my coverlet, which I carried under my arm) into the vessel, and, drawing it after me, between wading and swimming arrived at the royal port of Blefuscu, where the people had long expected me: they lent me two guides to direct me to the capital city, which is of the same name.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

For four or five of them were busy carrying off our stores and wading out with them to one of the gigs that lay close by, pulling an oar or so to hold her steady against the current.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I was going to holla after them, although it had been to little purpose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea, as fast as he could: he waded not much deeper than his knees, and took prodigious strides: but our men had the start of him half a league, and, the sea thereabouts being full of sharp-pointed rocks, the monster was not able to overtake the boat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)