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# gad

«gad» in Mova's school dictionary: **to wander from place to place looking for fun or news** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (gads, gadded, gadding); exclamation (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To gad about is to wander from place to place looking for fun or news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gad/#m1)

2) «Gad!» is an old mild exclamation of surprise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gad/#m2)

3) (old use) A gad is a thin pointed stick used to prod animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gad/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a rude or surprised shout; «gad about» means to roam without purpose

### examples

- Don't gad about in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gad/#x1)
- «Gad!» said the old man, and jumped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gad/#x2)
- The farmer used a gad to move the oxen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gad/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And Leah said: 'Fortune is come!' And she called his name Gad.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.897/)
- [and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1115/)
- [And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1519/)
- [Gad, a troop shall troop upon him; but he shall troop upon their heel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1618/)
- [Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gad» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gad/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.