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Padding

verb
/ˈpædɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 1.0

Definitions

1.verbTo stuff.
2.verbTo furnish with a pad or padding.
3.verbTo increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
"May 21, 2008, Austin American-Statesman"
4.verbTo imbue uniformly with a mordant.
"to pad cloth"
5.verbTo deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
6.verbTo travel along (a road, path etc.).
7.verbTo travel on foot.
8.verbTo wear a path by walking.
9.verbTo walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
10.verbTo practise highway robbery.
11.nounSoft filling material used in cushions etc.
12.nounExtra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
13.nounExtraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
14.nounAnything of little value used to fill up space.
"That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding."

Synonyms

cushioningupholsterystuffingcushionbufferpackingdamperheadroomroomdampeningfillinginfill

Rhymes With

claddinggaddingjaddinghadingadd ingbrad hungcomrade dingdad hung
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