padding

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/ˈpædɪŋ/ English

Definitions

verb

To stuff.
To furnish with a pad or padding.
To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.“May 21, 2008, Austin American-Statesman”
To imbue uniformly with a mordant.“to pad cloth”

verb

To travel along (a road, path etc.).
To travel on foot.
To wear a path by walking.
To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.

noun

Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
Anything of little value used to fill up space.“That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.”

Related words

Synonyms

cushioning upholstery stuffing cushion buffer packing damper headroom room dampening filling infill snow leeway filled fill

Associated

turnbuckle padded gloves rsa foam byte stitches cryptography hash pads cuff

Rhymes

cladding gadding jadding hading add ing brad hung comrade ding dad hung gladding had hung

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