Meaning of PADDING
| Pronunciation: | | 'pading
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| | Definition: | | [n] artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort |
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| | Synonyms: | | cushioning |
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| | See Also: | | artefact, artifact, cotton, cotton wool, cushion, falsie, kapok, pad, silk cotton, straw, stuffing, vegetable silk | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a
mordant.
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| | Related Terms: | | aegis, all fours, arm guard, backstop, battology, bedizenment, bonus, buffer, bulwark, bumper, bush, bushing, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, cushion, cushioning, dashboard, decoration, dodger, doubling, doublure, duplication, duplication of effort, easing, embellishment, expletive, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, extravagance, face mask, facing, fat, featherbedding, fender, filigree, filler, filling, fillip, finger guard, flourish, foot guard, frill, frills, frippery, fuse, gasket, gingerbread, gland, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, gumshoeing, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, inlay, inlayer, insole, insulation, interlineation, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, lagniappe, laminated glass, laxation, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, liner, lining, luxury, macrology, mask, mellowing, mollification, mollifying, mudguard, needlessness, nightwalking, nose guard, ornament, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, packing, pad, palladium, patent, payroll padding, pilot, pleonasm, premium, preventive, prolixity, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, prowling, pussyfooting, redundance, redundancy, relaxation, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, scrabble, scramble, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, sidling, slinking, snaking, sneaking, softening, softening-up, something extra, stammering, stealing, stopping, stuffing, stuttering, sun helmet, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, tampon, tautologism, tautology, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, trimming, twist, umbrella, unnecessariness, verbosity, wadding, wainscot, windscreen, windshield, worming, wrinkle |
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