paddingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈpadɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpædɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pad n.², -ing suffix¹; pad v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Originally < pad n.² + -ing suffix¹; in later use also < pad v.² + -ing suffix¹.

a. Soft material used to pad or stuff something. Also figurative.Occasionally as a count noun: a pad (now rare).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for stuffing or filling

flocks1277

capiton1612

padding1640

wattins1690

wadding1734

packing1779

pugging1801

stopping1823

chinking1837

stopper1879

air foam1937

the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding

bolstering1530

stuffing1530

bombasting1603

padding1640

wadding1734

pad1860

1640 in C. A. Hunt Perth Hammermen (1889) p. lxx [To the Scots army at Newcastle] shoes, hodding, padding and handling.

1824 J. Moore Brit. Patent 5032 3 Fig. 3 is a section of the piston padding.

1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 66 They put a padding in to make them sit on one side.

1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iv. 138 The fabric produced is only used for drugget, padding, and other inferior purposes.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxv. 302 There is something imposing about such a man till you're used to it, and can see through it. Of course it's all padding.

a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) iv. 122 The apparent absence of any padding in the broad shoulders..more than compensated for the ‘ready-made’ scarf.

1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. XI. 323/1 Italian quilting consists of two layers of cloth sewn together... A padding of soft wool or piping cord is then threaded between the narrow channels.

1996 Independent 9 Jan. ii. 12/3 The level of padding on puffa jackets is deliberately exaggerated in the name of style.

b. Superfluous or inferior material introduced into or included in a book, speech, etc., in order to make up a required or expected length.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding

padding1861

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding > matter used as padding

stuffing1551

bombast1575

fill-space1827

skip1833

padding1861

Polyfilla1979

1861 A. Trollope Let. 26 Jan. (1983) I. 139 The payment is more than liberal. Indeed I can consider it..high for..‘padding’.

1869 M. Collins Ivory Gate II. xvii. 235 To write..two or three articles of magazine ‘padding’ a month.

1896 C. Plummer Bede I. p. xlvi He amplifies the narrative with rhetorical matter which can only be called padding.

1911 C. V. Stanford Musical Composition vi. 88 Not one single bar of ‘padding’.

1955 Times 18 Aug. 11/5 He allows himself much liberty of digression, and one may admire his delicate embroidery without being quite unconscious that in a less accomplished writer much of it would be called padding.

2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) p. iv/5 Writers and television documentary makers seem to think that the public cannot cope unless the material is surrounded by undemanding padding.

2. Textiles. The action of impregnating fabric with a liquid or paste by squeezing it between rollers. Cf. pad v.² 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > treating with mordant

ageing1830

padding1839

mordanting1875

after-chroming1890

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > padding

padding1839

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 222 In padding, where the whole surface of the calico is imbued with mordant, the drying apartment..should..afford a ready outlet to the..exhalations.

1954 Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists 70 383/2 The polymer emulsion..is then suitably diluted for application to the fabric, and applied by padding and drying.

3. The action of filling or surrounding something with a pad or pads, esp. for protection or comfort or in order to impart volume or shape; the use of padding (sense 1).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding > provision with

stuffing1533

padding1874

1874 A. Helps Social Pressure (1875) vii. 82 All padding is an abomination to me.

1890 D. S. Margoliouth Place of Ecclus. 8 Padding is not disapproved by the Orientals as it is by us.

1918 Times 30 Aug. 9/6 The English manufacturers being carefully instructed in the mysterious padding of the garments necessitated by the peculiarities of the American game.

1983 Skin Diver (Nexis) June 62 Directly behind the helm chairs are twin lockers... With some padding these would be ideal for underwater camera equipment.

4. Originally North American colloquial. The action of extending or increasing an official list, expense account, etc., with unauthorized or fraudulent items.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun]

defraudc1450

defraudationc1503

fraudingc1530

defrauding1548

cheateryc1555

cheatingc1555

versing1591

begeckc1600

sharking1602

shaving1606

rooking1635

defraudment1645

emunging1664

prowlerya1670

bilking1687

sharping1692

mace1742

fineering1765

swindling1769

highway robbery1777

macing1811

flat-catching1821

ramping1830

swindlery1833

rigging1846

diddlinga1849

suck-in1856

daylight robbery1863

cooking1873

bunco-steering1875

chousing1881

fiddling1884

verneukery1896

padding1900

verneukering1900

bobol1907

swizzle1913

ramp1915

swizz1915

chizzing1948

tweedling1975

1900 N.Y. Times 23 Feb. 4/4 The Republicans charge that the deficiency in Syracuse is the result of the padding of the payrolls by the Democratic officeholders.

1931 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Jan. 1/6 This peculiar species of pay-roll padding is practiced in scores of instances by Congressmen and in some instances by Senators.

1964 ‘E. Lathen’ Accounting for Murder (1965) x. 94 It would take more than a little juggling of expense accounts to explain the situation... Somebody must have gone into a panic about some minor padding.

1994 Guardian 21 Sept. i. 2/6 Fraud by bar staff was seen as endemic. Methods included ‘bar padding’, when staff sell their own liquor instead of the company's.

5. Electronics. The use of a padder (padder n.² 3).

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > operation of electronic devices > [noun] > tuning > use of padder

padding1935

1935 A. T. Witts Superheterodyne Receiver iv. 37 Condenser C3, the padding condenser, has a capacity that is large in comparison with the tuning condenser C2, with the result that at the lower settings of the latter the padding condenser has very little effect.

1946 C. A. Quarrington Mod. Pract. Radio & Television I. xviii. 140 The [condenser] vanes are shaped to give the necessary effect when working on the highest frequency band incorporated in the receiver, and the lower frequency band or bands are corrected by means of padding.

1962 J. H. Reyner & P. J. Reyner Radio Communication ix. 371 The padding and trimming capacitances must..be altered for each wave range and are usually..changed over by the switching which alters the coils.

2001 Proc. ASP-DAC 2001 115/1 Capacitance-padding can be achieved by wire-spacing, wire-splitting, wire-padding and transistor-padding.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive (in sense 2), as padding machine, padding mangle, etc.

ΚΠ

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 915 Padding machine, in calico-printing, is the apparatus for imbuing a piece of cotton cloth uniformly with any mordant.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 641 A section of the padding flue used in mordanting.

1935 Chem. Abstr. 29 4179 Dyeing in concentrated dye bath... The mech. and operating details of padding mangles of various manuf. are described.

1973 Materials & Technol. VI. vii. 461 The most popular type of padding machine has two or three rollers giving one or two immersions in the padding solution.

1999 Textile Month May 60/1 The actual nip profile shows minimal variation at normal padding pressures.

b. (In sense 1b.) Esp. in padding word.

ΚΠ

1898 I. M. Anderton tr. D. Comparetti Trad. Poetry Finns ii. iii. 313 On this and other padding-words used in the byliny.

1938 R. W. Frederick et al. Directing Learning 303 From these the pupils will discover that they can get the sense of what they read if they urge their eyes rapidly over the little ‘padding words’.

1975 R. Gittings Young T. Hardy xv. 166 The long padding chapter when the chief characters, for no reason, decide to travel from London to Cornwall by boat.

1990 Amiga Computing Dec. 125/2 Note that the zero on the end of ‘FenderStrat’ is just a padding byte, not a terminating zero.

2004 W. Hicks Quite Literally Problem Words 3 Actual, actually are usually padding words with no function in a sentence.

C2.

padding capacitor n. Electronics = padder n.² 3.

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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > adjustable capacitor

air condenser1878

trimmer capacitor1930

padding condenser1935

padder capacitor1936

padding capacitor1970

1970 Single Sideband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) ii. 38/1 The ceramic coil, fixed air padding capacitor, and the shield are re-used in the new v.f.o.

1982 Giant Bk. Electronics Projects v. 176 A 100–200 pF padding capacitor..should extend coverage.

padding condenser n. Electronics = padder n.² 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > adjustable capacitor

air condenser1878

trimmer capacitor1930

padding condenser1935

padder capacitor1936

padding capacitor1970

1935Padding condenser [see sense 5].

1946 C. A. Quarrington Mod. Pract. Radio & Television I. xviii. 141 The series condenser..is called the padding condenser and is usually..of the pre-set type..; the small parallel capacity..is called the trimming condenser, and is invariably of the pre-set type.

padding stitch n. = pad stitch n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > stitch > other

accrue1725

gobble stitch1788

seam-stitch1825

marking stitch1861

dot1882

seam1882

basket-darning1884

basting1885

bridle1885

padding stitch1913

stab-stitch1917

tuck-stitch1926

prick stitch1928

fishbone-stitch1932

pad stitch1964

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other

chain-stitch1598

French knot1623

picot1623

petty-point1632

tent-stitch1639

brede-stitch1640

herringbone stitch1659

satin stitch1664

feather-stitch1835

Gobelin stitch1838

crowfoot1839

seedingc1840

German stitch1842

petit point1842

long stitch1849

looped stitch1851

hem-stitch1853

loop-stitch1853

faggot stitch1854

spider-wheel1868

dot stitch1869

picot stitch1869

slip-stitch1872

coral-stitch1873

stem stitch1873

rope stitch1875

Vienna cross stitch1876

witch stitch1876

pin stitch1878

seed stitch1879

cushion-stitch1880

Japanese stitch1880

darning-stitch1881

Kensington stitch1881

knot-stitch1881

bullion knot1882

cable pattern1882

Italian stitch1882

lattice-stitch1882

queen stitch1882

rice stitch1882

shadow-stitch1882

ship-ladder1882

spider-stitch1882

stem1882

Vandyke stitch1882

warp-stitch1882

wheel-stitch1882

basket-stitch1883

outline stitch1885

pointing1888

bullion stitchc1890

cable-stitchc1890

oriental stitchc1890

Turkish stitchc1890

Romanian stitch1894

shell-stitch1895

saddle stitch1899

magic stitch1900

plumage-stitch1900

saddle stitching1902

German knot stitch1903

trellis1912

padding stitch1913

straight stitch1918

Hungarian stitch1921

trellis stitch1921

lazy daisy1923

diamond stitchc1926

darning1930

faggot filling stitch1934

fly stitch1934

magic chain stitch1934

glove stitch1964

pad stitch1964

1913 M. E. Wilkinson Embroidery Stitches 123 Padding stitch, close Satin stitch worked over a raised or padded grounding.

1992 Canad. Living Dec. 196 Today's faster, easier way of tailoring depends upon fusible interfacings that replace the traditional labor-intensive method utilizing hair canvas and endless small padding stitches.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

paddingn.²

Brit.

/ˈpadɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpædɪŋ/

Forms: 1600s– padding, 1800s– padden (English regional).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pad v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < pad v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare padding adj., pad n.³

slang. Now rare.

†1. slang. Highway robbery; (also) begging, vagrancy. Cf. footpadding n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > highway robbery

high lawc1555

highway robbery1611

padding1649

pad1652

snaffling-lay1752

scamp1786

1649 Mercurius Elencticus No. 22. 176 One Collonel Holt..and one Captain Den a Counsellors sonne,..the latter being condemned for Pistoling a poore Taylor, most cowardly in Shoo-Lane; the other for Padding.

1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xxxiii. 41 They resolved to reassume their quondam trade of Padding; are taken and committed to Newgate.

1706 E. Ward London Spy Compleat (ed. 3) v. 112 That famous University, where, if a Man has a mind to Educate a hopeful Child in the Daring Science of Padding; the Light-Finger'd Subtlety of Shop-Lifting;..let him but enter him in this Colledge.

1729 C. Coffey Beggar's Wedding iii. iv. 62 May Knits, Lice, and Fleas Divert you at leisure, Whilst padding and mumping Be each other's Pleasure.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator 5 Jan. 102 He [sc. Claude du Val] took, says his biographer ‘the generous way of padding.’

2. The action of walking with soft steady steps (cf. pad v.¹ 4); the sound made by such steps.

ΚΠ

1896 N. Amer. Rev. June 721 The warm night, the padding of the bare feet in the dusk, the hot smell of leaves, were all an old trite experience.

a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) ii. xxxv. 580 The cry of the jackal, the Muezzin call, padding of donkeys' feet.

1992 R. Campbell Claw (BNC) 192 Anna must be awake, for Liz could hear, faintly but clearly, the padding of bare feet on the polished floorboards of the bedroom.

Compounds

† padding-crib n. Obsolete slang = padding ken n.

ΚΠ

1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 164/1 Padden Crib, boys' lodging-houses.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Padding-ken, or crib, tramps' and boys' lodging-house.

padding ken n. English regional (slang) a lodging house for tramps or itinerants.

ΚΠ

1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 168 The padding ken of Sally Ricks..is full of prigs and shallow chaps and fellows on the high-fly.

1888 Walthamstow & Leyton Guardian 6 Oct. 5/4 Women ever ready to barter their shame for the price of a pot of beer or the wherewithal to obtain the shelter of the ‘padding-ken’ for a single night.

1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 82 Padding can, tramps' lodging house.

1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Padding can, a common lodging-house.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	padding
释义	paddingn.¹ Brit. /ˈpadɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpædɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pad n.², -ing suffix¹; pad v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Originally < pad n.² + -ing suffix¹; in later use also < pad v.² + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. Soft material used to pad or stuff something. Also figurative.Occasionally as a count noun: a pad (now rare). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > material for stuffing or filling flocks1277 capiton1612 padding1640 wattins1690 wadding1734 packing1779 pugging1801 stopping1823 chinking1837 stopper1879 air foam1937 the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding bolstering1530 stuffing1530 bombasting1603 padding1640 wadding1734 pad1860 1640 in C. A. Hunt Perth Hammermen (1889) p. lxx [To the Scots army at Newcastle] shoes, hodding, padding and handling. 1824 J. Moore Brit. Patent 5032 3 Fig. 3 is a section of the piston padding. 1828 Lights & Shades Eng. Life II. 66 They put a padding in to make them sit on one side. 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iv. 138 The fabric produced is only used for drugget, padding, and other inferior purposes. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxv. 302 There is something imposing about such a man till you're used to it, and can see through it. Of course it's all padding. a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) iv. 122 The apparent absence of any padding in the broad shoulders..more than compensated for the ‘ready-made’ scarf. 1955 Oxf. Junior Encycl. XI. 323/1 Italian quilting consists of two layers of cloth sewn together... A padding of soft wool or piping cord is then threaded between the narrow channels. 1996 Independent 9 Jan. ii. 12/3 The level of padding on puffa jackets is deliberately exaggerated in the name of style. b. Superfluous or inferior material introduced into or included in a book, speech, etc., in order to make up a required or expected length. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding padding1861 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > action of padding > matter used as padding stuffing1551 bombast1575 fill-space1827 skip1833 padding1861 Polyfilla1979 1861 A. Trollope Let. 26 Jan. (1983) I. 139 The payment is more than liberal. Indeed I can consider it..high for..‘padding’. 1869 M. Collins Ivory Gate II. xvii. 235 To write..two or three articles of magazine ‘padding’ a month. 1896 C. Plummer Bede I. p. xlvi He amplifies the narrative with rhetorical matter which can only be called padding. 1911 C. V. Stanford Musical Composition vi. 88 Not one single bar of ‘padding’. 1955 Times 18 Aug. 11/5 He allows himself much liberty of digression, and one may admire his delicate embroidery without being quite unconscious that in a less accomplished writer much of it would be called padding. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) p. iv/5 Writers and television documentary makers seem to think that the public cannot cope unless the material is surrounded by undemanding padding. 2. Textiles. The action of impregnating fabric with a liquid or paste by squeezing it between rollers. Cf. pad v.² 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > treating with mordant ageing1830 padding1839 mordanting1875 after-chroming1890 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > padding padding1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 222 In padding, where the whole surface of the calico is imbued with mordant, the drying apartment..should..afford a ready outlet to the..exhalations. 1954 Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists 70 383/2 The polymer emulsion..is then suitably diluted for application to the fabric, and applied by padding and drying. 3. The action of filling or surrounding something with a pad or pads, esp. for protection or comfort or in order to impart volume or shape; the use of padding (sense 1). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding > provision with stuffing1533 padding1874 1874 A. Helps Social Pressure (1875) vii. 82 All padding is an abomination to me. 1890 D. S. Margoliouth Place of Ecclus. 8 Padding is not disapproved by the Orientals as it is by us. 1918 Times 30 Aug. 9/6 The English manufacturers being carefully instructed in the mysterious padding of the garments necessitated by the peculiarities of the American game. 1983 Skin Diver (Nexis) June 62 Directly behind the helm chairs are twin lockers... With some padding these would be ideal for underwater camera equipment. 4. Originally North American colloquial. The action of extending or increasing an official list, expense account, etc., with unauthorized or fraudulent items. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] defraudc1450 defraudationc1503 fraudingc1530 defrauding1548 cheateryc1555 cheatingc1555 versing1591 begeckc1600 sharking1602 shaving1606 rooking1635 defraudment1645 emunging1664 prowlerya1670 bilking1687 sharping1692 mace1742 fineering1765 swindling1769 highway robbery1777 macing1811 flat-catching1821 ramping1830 swindlery1833 rigging1846 diddlinga1849 suck-in1856 daylight robbery1863 cooking1873 bunco-steering1875 chousing1881 fiddling1884 verneukery1896 padding1900 verneukering1900 bobol1907 swizzle1913 ramp1915 swizz1915 chizzing1948 tweedling1975 1900 N.Y. Times 23 Feb. 4/4 The Republicans charge that the deficiency in Syracuse is the result of the padding of the payrolls by the Democratic officeholders. 1931 Sun (Baltimore) 29 Jan. 1/6 This peculiar species of pay-roll padding is practiced in scores of instances by Congressmen and in some instances by Senators. 1964 ‘E. Lathen’ Accounting for Murder (1965) x. 94 It would take more than a little juggling of expense accounts to explain the situation... Somebody must have gone into a panic about some minor padding. 1994 Guardian 21 Sept. i. 2/6 Fraud by bar staff was seen as endemic. Methods included ‘bar padding’, when staff sell their own liquor instead of the company's. 5. Electronics. The use of a padder (padder n.² 3). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > operation of electronic devices > [noun] > tuning > use of padder padding1935 1935 A. T. Witts Superheterodyne Receiver iv. 37 Condenser C3, the padding condenser, has a capacity that is large in comparison with the tuning condenser C2, with the result that at the lower settings of the latter the padding condenser has very little effect. 1946 C. A. Quarrington Mod. Pract. Radio & Television I. xviii. 140 The [condenser] vanes are shaped to give the necessary effect when working on the highest frequency band incorporated in the receiver, and the lower frequency band or bands are corrected by means of padding. 1962 J. H. Reyner & P. J. Reyner Radio Communication ix. 371 The padding and trimming capacitances must..be altered for each wave range and are usually..changed over by the switching which alters the coils. 2001 Proc. ASP-DAC 2001 115/1 Capacitance-padding can be achieved by wire-spacing, wire-splitting, wire-padding and transistor-padding. Compounds C1. a. General attributive (in sense 2), as padding machine, padding mangle, etc. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 915 Padding machine, in calico-printing, is the apparatus for imbuing a piece of cotton cloth uniformly with any mordant. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 641 A section of the padding flue used in mordanting. 1935 Chem. Abstr. 29 4179 Dyeing in concentrated dye bath... The mech. and operating details of padding mangles of various manuf. are described. 1973 Materials & Technol. VI. vii. 461 The most popular type of padding machine has two or three rollers giving one or two immersions in the padding solution. 1999 Textile Month May 60/1 The actual nip profile shows minimal variation at normal padding pressures. b. (In sense 1b.) Esp. in padding word. ΚΠ 1898 I. M. Anderton tr. D. Comparetti Trad. Poetry Finns ii. iii. 313 On this and other padding-words used in the byliny. 1938 R. W. Frederick et al. Directing Learning 303 From these the pupils will discover that they can get the sense of what they read if they urge their eyes rapidly over the little ‘padding words’. 1975 R. Gittings Young T. Hardy xv. 166 The long padding chapter when the chief characters, for no reason, decide to travel from London to Cornwall by boat. 1990 Amiga Computing Dec. 125/2 Note that the zero on the end of ‘FenderStrat’ is just a padding byte, not a terminating zero. 2004 W. Hicks Quite Literally Problem Words 3 Actual, actually are usually padding words with no function in a sentence. C2. padding capacitor n. Electronics = padder n.² 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > adjustable capacitor air condenser1878 trimmer capacitor1930 padding condenser1935 padder capacitor1936 padding capacitor1970 1970 Single Sideband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) ii. 38/1 The ceramic coil, fixed air padding capacitor, and the shield are re-used in the new v.f.o. 1982 Giant Bk. Electronics Projects v. 176 A 100–200 pF padding capacitor..should extend coverage. padding condenser n. Electronics = padder n.² 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > adjustable capacitor air condenser1878 trimmer capacitor1930 padding condenser1935 padder capacitor1936 padding capacitor1970 1935Padding condenser [see sense 5]. 1946 C. A. Quarrington Mod. Pract. Radio & Television I. xviii. 141 The series condenser..is called the padding condenser and is usually..of the pre-set type..; the small parallel capacity..is called the trimming condenser, and is invariably of the pre-set type. padding stitch n. = pad stitch n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > stitch > other accrue1725 gobble stitch1788 seam-stitch1825 marking stitch1861 dot1882 seam1882 basket-darning1884 basting1885 bridle1885 padding stitch1913 stab-stitch1917 tuck-stitch1926 prick stitch1928 fishbone-stitch1932 pad stitch1964 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other chain-stitch1598 French knot1623 picot1623 petty-point1632 tent-stitch1639 brede-stitch1640 herringbone stitch1659 satin stitch1664 feather-stitch1835 Gobelin stitch1838 crowfoot1839 seedingc1840 German stitch1842 petit point1842 long stitch1849 looped stitch1851 hem-stitch1853 loop-stitch1853 faggot stitch1854 spider-wheel1868 dot stitch1869 picot stitch1869 slip-stitch1872 coral-stitch1873 stem stitch1873 rope stitch1875 Vienna cross stitch1876 witch stitch1876 pin stitch1878 seed stitch1879 cushion-stitch1880 Japanese stitch1880 darning-stitch1881 Kensington stitch1881 knot-stitch1881 bullion knot1882 cable pattern1882 Italian stitch1882 lattice-stitch1882 queen stitch1882 rice stitch1882 shadow-stitch1882 ship-ladder1882 spider-stitch1882 stem1882 Vandyke stitch1882 warp-stitch1882 wheel-stitch1882 basket-stitch1883 outline stitch1885 pointing1888 bullion stitchc1890 cable-stitchc1890 oriental stitchc1890 Turkish stitchc1890 Romanian stitch1894 shell-stitch1895 saddle stitch1899 magic stitch1900 plumage-stitch1900 saddle stitching1902 German knot stitch1903 trellis1912 padding stitch1913 straight stitch1918 Hungarian stitch1921 trellis stitch1921 lazy daisy1923 diamond stitchc1926 darning1930 faggot filling stitch1934 fly stitch1934 magic chain stitch1934 glove stitch1964 pad stitch1964 1913 M. E. Wilkinson Embroidery Stitches 123 Padding stitch, close Satin stitch worked over a raised or padded grounding. 1992 Canad. Living Dec. 196 Today's faster, easier way of tailoring depends upon fusible interfacings that replace the traditional labor-intensive method utilizing hair canvas and endless small padding stitches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). paddingn.² Brit. /ˈpadɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpædɪŋ/ Forms: 1600s– padding, 1800s– padden (English regional). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pad v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < pad v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. Compare padding adj., pad n.³ slang. Now rare. †1. slang. Highway robbery; (also) begging, vagrancy. Cf. footpadding n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > highway robbery high lawc1555 highway robbery1611 padding1649 pad1652 snaffling-lay1752 scamp1786 1649 Mercurius Elencticus No. 22. 176 One Collonel Holt..and one Captain Den a Counsellors sonne,..the latter being condemned for Pistoling a poore Taylor, most cowardly in Shoo-Lane; the other for Padding. 1665 R. Head Eng. Rogue I. xxxiii. 41 They resolved to reassume their quondam trade of Padding; are taken and committed to Newgate. 1706 E. Ward London Spy Compleat (ed. 3) v. 112 That famous University, where, if a Man has a mind to Educate a hopeful Child in the Daring Science of Padding; the Light-Finger'd Subtlety of Shop-Lifting;..let him but enter him in this Colledge. 1729 C. Coffey Beggar's Wedding iii. iv. 62 May Knits, Lice, and Fleas Divert you at leisure, Whilst padding and mumping Be each other's Pleasure. 1820 L. Hunt Indicator 5 Jan. 102 He [sc. Claude du Val] took, says his biographer ‘the generous way of padding.’ 2. The action of walking with soft steady steps (cf. pad v.¹ 4); the sound made by such steps. ΚΠ 1896 N. Amer. Rev. June 721 The warm night, the padding of the bare feet in the dusk, the hot smell of leaves, were all an old trite experience. a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) ii. xxxv. 580 The cry of the jackal, the Muezzin call, padding of donkeys' feet. 1992 R. Campbell Claw (BNC) 192 Anna must be awake, for Liz could hear, faintly but clearly, the padding of bare feet on the polished floorboards of the bedroom. Compounds † padding-crib n. Obsolete slang = padding ken n. ΚΠ 1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 164/1 Padden Crib, boys' lodging-houses. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Padding-ken, or crib, tramps' and boys' lodging-house. padding ken n. English regional (slang) a lodging house for tramps or itinerants. ΚΠ 1839 H. Brandon Dict. Flash or Cant Lang. in W. A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity & Crime 168 The padding ken of Sally Ricks..is full of prigs and shallow chaps and fellows on the high-fly. 1888 Walthamstow & Leyton Guardian 6 Oct. 5/4 Women ever ready to barter their shame for the price of a pot of beer or the wherewithal to obtain the shelter of the ‘padding-ken’ for a single night. 1974 W. Leeds Herefordshire Speech 82 Padding can, tramps' lodging house. 1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Padding can, a common lodging-house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). paddingadj. Brit. /ˈpadɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpædɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pad v.¹, -ing suffix². Etymology: < pad v.¹ (although this is first attested slightly later in the specific sense corresponding to sense 1 below) + -ing suffix². Compare pad n.³, padding n.², padder n.¹ †1. That practises highway robbery; (more generally) thieving, robbing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [adjective] > specific type or manner of robbery church-robbing1549 footpadding1628 padding1628 mail-settingc1688 hold-up1881 hijacking1923 smash-and-grab1927 skyjacked1961 1628 J. Clavell Recantation of Ill Led Life 35 Then take heed of those Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law I am not priuy to. 1672 J. Eachard Mr. Hobbs's State Nature Considered 107 That Humane Nature in general, is a shirking, rooking, pilfering, padding nature. 2. Walking with soft steady steps; walking on the soles of one's feet, or on the pads of paws; making the soft, dull sound of a light step (cf. pad v.¹ 4). Formerly also: †that travels on foot (cf. pad v.¹ 1), itinerant, tramping (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > with steady tread firm1614 padding1684 unvacillating1821 steadyish1833 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 120 Mercy..saw, as she thought, something, most like a Lion, and it came a great padding pace after. View more context for this quotation 1783 W. Blake Poet. Sketches The Snake doth turn, and bite the padding foot. 1844 S. Bamford Walks 44 None of your common padding tramps. 1888 A. Rives Quick or Dead (1889) vi. 80 She..began to move up and down the room with the long, padding gait peculiar to her. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 158 The dread Goat..tramping round and round the Castle with padding, dull-sounding steps. 1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 43 Puss-purr of Leopard, footfall of padding bear. 1990 B. Bainbridge Awfully Big Adventure (BNC) 79 She would have picked out his padding footsteps among an army of marching boots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1640n.²1649adj.1628
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