Definition of Wade

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Wade

Wade

Woad.

To go; to move forward.

To walk in a substance that yields to the feet; to move, sinking at each step, as in water, mud, sand, etc.

Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects or circumstances that constantly /inder or embarrass; as, to wade through a dull book.

To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.

The act of wading.

Related Definitions:

Act, Among, And, As, At, Book, By, Constantly, Cross, Difficulty, Dull, Each, Embarrass, Feet, Forward, Go, He, Hence, In, Labor, Lowly, Move, Mud, Of, Or, Pass, Proceed, Sand, Sinking, Step, Substance, That, The, Through, To, Wade, Waded, Wading, Walk, Water, With, Woad

Wade Quotations

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.
Tony Campolo

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Jello Biafra

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
Wallace Stevens

I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.
Kevin Nealon

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.
Jeffery Deaver

They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.
Matthew Henry

For thirty years, beginning with the invention of a privacy right in the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Left has been waging a systematic assault on the constitutional foundation of the nation.
David Horowitz

I was the Jane Roe of Roe vs. Wade, but Jane Roe has been laid to rest.
Norma McCorvey

Wade Translations

wade in Dutch is waden, flodderen, plassen
wade in German is sich durcharbeiten
wade in Italian is sguazzare
wade in Spanish is vadear
wade in Swedish is vada

Quotes