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PADDING
padding, cushioning
(noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
PAD
pad, bolster
(verb) add padding to; “pad the seat of the chair”
embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
(verb) add details to
pad, fill out
(verb) line or stuff with soft material; “pad a bra”
slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp
(verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; “Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
padding
present participle of pad
Noun
padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
(military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
Source: Wiktionary
Pad"ding, n.
1. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
2. The material with which anything is padded.
3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. London Sat. Rev.
4. (Calico Printing)
Definition: The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
PAD
Pad, n. Etym: [D. pad. sq. root21. See Path.]
1. A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. Addison An abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson.
3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. Gay. Byron.
4. The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]
Pad, v. t.
Definition: To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.
Pad, v. i.
1. To travel heavily or slowly. Bunyan.
2. To rob on foot. [Obs.] Cotton Mather.
3. To wear a path by walking. [Prov. Eng.]
Pad, n. Etym: [Perh. akin to pod.]
1. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
2. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
3. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
4. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
6. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
7. (Med.)
Definition: A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
8. (Naut.)
Definition: A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. W. C. Russel.
9. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. [Eng.] Simmonds. Pad cloth, a saddlecloth; a housing.
– Pad saddle. See def. 3, above.
– Pad tree (Harness Making), a piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. Knight.
Pad, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Padded; p. pr. & vb. n. Padding.]
1. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
2. (Calico Printing)
Definition: To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. Ure.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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