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Definitions for Padding

[1] material, as cotton or straw, used to pad something.
[2] something added unnecessarily or dishonestly, as verbiage to a speech or a false charge on an expense account.
[3] the act of a person or thing that pads.
[4] a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.
[5] a soft, stuffed cushion used as a saddle; a padded leather saddle without a tree.
[6] a number of sheets of paper glued or otherwise held together at one edge to form a tablet.
[7] a soft, ink-soaked block of absorbent material for inking a rubber stamp.
[8] Anatomy , Zoology . any fleshy mass of tissue that cushions a weight-bearing part of the body, as on the underside of a paw.
[9] the foot, as of a fox, hare, or wolf.
[10] a piece or fold of gauze or other absorbent material for use as a surgical dressing or a protective covering.
[11] Zoology . a pulvillus, as on the tarsus or foot of an insect.
[12] a lily pad.
[13] Rocketry . launch pad.
[14] Slang . one's living quarters, as an apartment or room. one's bed. a room where people gather to take narcotics; an addicts' den.
[15] Slang . money paid as a bribe to and shared among police officers, as for ignoring law violations. a list of police officers receiving such money.
[16] Electricity . a nonadjustable attenuator consisting of a network of fixed resistors.
[17] Shipbuilding . a metal plate riveted or welded to a surface as a base or attachment for bolts, hooks, eyes, etc. a piece of wood laid on the back of a deck beam to give the deck surface a desired amount of camber.
[18] Carpentry . a handle for holding various small, interchangeable saw blades. Also pod. a socket in a brace for a bit.
[19] Metallurgy . a raised surface on a casting.
[20] a small deposit of weld metal, as for building up a worn surface.
[21] to furnish, protect, fill out, or stuff with a pad or padding.
[22] to expand or add to unnecessarily or dishonestly: to pad a speech; to pad an expense account.
[23] Metallurgy . to add metal to (a casting) above its required dimensions, to insure the flow of enough metal to all parts.
[24] to insure the proper forging of a piece.
[25] a dull, muffled sound, as of footsteps on the ground.
[26] a road horse, as distinguished from a hunting or working horse.
[27] a highwayman.
[28] British Dialect . a path, lane, or road.
[29] to travel along on foot.
[30] to beat down by treading.
[31] to travel on foot; walk.
[32] to walk so that one's footsteps make a dull, muffled sound.
[33] any soft material used to pad clothes, furniture, etc
[34] superfluous material put into a speech or written work to pad it out; waffle
[35] inflated or false entries in a financial account, esp an expense account
[36] a thick piece of soft material used to make something comfortable, give it shape, or protect it
[37] a guard made of flexible resilient material worn in various sports to protect parts of the body
[38] Also called: stamp pad , ink pad a block of firm absorbent material soaked with ink for transferring to a rubber stamp
[39] Also called: notepad , writing pad a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
[40] a flat piece of stiff material used to back a piece of blotting paper
[41] the fleshy cushion-like underpart of the foot of a cat, dog, etc any of the parts constituting such a structure
[42] any of various level surfaces or flat-topped structures, such as a launch pad
[43] entomol a nontechnical name for pulvillus
[44] the large flat floating leaf of the water lily
[45] electronics a resistive attenuator network inserted in the path of a signal to reduce amplitude or to match one circuit to another
[46] slang a person's residence
[47] slang a bed or bedroom
[48] to line, stuff, or fill out with soft material, esp in order to protect or give shape to
[49] (often foll by out) to inflate with irrelevant or false information to pad out a story
[50] (intr; often foll by along, up, etc ) to walk with a soft or muffled tread
[51] (when intr, often foll by around ) to travel (a route) on foot, esp at a slow pace; tramp to pad around the country
[52] a dull soft sound, esp of footsteps
[53] archaic short for footpad
[54] archaic , or dialect a slow-paced horse; nag
[55] Australian a path or track a cattle pad

Words related to Padding

lining, packing, protection, filler, wadding

Words nearby Padding

pad thai, pada, padang, padauk, padded cell, padding, paddington, paddle, paddle box, paddle one's own canoe, paddle steamer

Origin of Padding

21545–55; (noun) < Middle Dutch or Low German pad path (orig. argot; hence, apparently, “highwayman” and “horse”); (v.) < Middle Dutch padden to make or follow a path, cognate with Old English pæththan to traverse, derivative of pæth path; defs 1, 8 perhaps represent an independent expressive word that has been influenced by other senses

Word origin for Padding

C16: perhaps from Middle Dutch paden, from pad path

Synonyms for Padding

filler, lining, packing, protection, wadding