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padding
pad·ding P0007700 (păd′ĭng)n.1. The act of stuffing, filling, or lining.2. A soft material used to make pads or a pad.3. Something added, especially extraneously or fraudulently: put some padding in the résumé.padding (ˈpædɪŋ) n1. any soft material used to pad clothes, furniture, etc2. superfluous material put into a speech or written work to pad it out; waffle3. (Accounting & Book-keeping) inflated or false entries in a financial account, esp an expense accountpad•ding (ˈpæd ɪŋ)
n. 1. material, as cotton or straw, used to pad something. 2. something added unnecessarily or dishonestly. [1820–30] paddingExtraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  padding - artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfortcushioningartefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a wholecushion - a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc.falsie - padding that is worn inside a brassierepad - a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfortstuffing - padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniturecotton, cotton fiber, cotton wool - soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw statekapok, silk cotton, vegetable silk - a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulationstraw - plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder |
paddingnoun1. filling, stuffing, packing, wadding the chair's foam rubber padding2. waffle (informal, chiefly Brit.), hot air (informal), verbiage, wordiness, verbosity, prolixity Politicians fill their speeches with a lot of padding.Translationspad1 (pӕd) noun1. a soft, cushion-like object made of or filled with a soft material, used to prevent damage by knocking, rubbing etc. She knelt on a pad to clean the floor. 襯墊 衬垫2. sheets of paper fixed together. a writing-pad. 便條紙簿 便笺簿3. a platform from which rockets are sent off. a launching-pad. 發射台 (導彈、火箭等的) 发射台 verb – past tense, past participle ˈpadded – to put a pad in or on (for protection, to make big enough etc). The shoes were too big so she padded them with cottonwool. 填塞 填塞ˈpadding noun material used to make a pad to protect, fill etc. He used old blankets as padding. 襯墊 衬垫pad out to fill with a soft material to make the right size. The actor's costume was padded out to make him look fat. 用軟物充填 用软物充填
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pad (one's)/the accountsTo make one's financial accounts appear more successful, stable, or secure than they really are, as by fraudulently concealing losses or by reporting false profits. Once the company's fraud came to light, it was quickly discovered that they had padded their accounts for years. Mark had taken to padding his accounts in the company to hide the losses from his husband's excessive spending habits.See also: account, padpad (one's)/the expense accountTo make unnecessary or fraudulent charges to one's company expense accounts for one's personal use. Have you been padding your expense account, Johnson? You're going to have to explain some of these mysterious out-of-state charges.See also: account, expense, padpad (something) outTo fill something with cheaper or unnecessary material in order to make it appear fuller, larger, or longer. If the movie were about 30 minutes shorter, it would have actually been an exciting little action flick—unfortunately, they decided to pad it out with this completely useless love story. He padded out the costume with tissue paper to make it look more like a pumpkin.See also: out, padpad downTo arrange to sleep some place, especially on a temporary basis. I'll just pad down at my brother's apartment while I look for a place to live. Where are you padding down while you're in town?See also: down, padpad the billTo inflate the charges made to someone for some product, meal, or service by adding extra, typically unnecessary or unwanted items or fees. Their website is really easy to use, but I hate that they pad the bill with so many fees and charges right at the very end. Don't let them pad the bill with extra services you don't want or need.See also: bill, padpad down (some place)Sl. to make one's bed somewhere, usually a casual or temporary bed. Do you mind if I pad down at your place for the night? Can I pad down tonight?See also: down, padpad the billFig. to put unnecessary or additional items on a bill to make the total cost higher. The plumber had padded the bill with things we didn't need. I was falsely accused of padding the bill.See also: bill, padpad down verbSee pad down somewhereSee also: down, padpadding
padding[′pad·iŋ] (computer science) The adding of meaningless data (usually blanks) to a unit of data to bring it up to some fixed size. paddingBits or characters that fill up unused portions of a data structure, such as a field, packet or frame. Typically, padding is done at the end of the structure to fill it up with data, with the padding usually consisting of 1 bits, blank characters or null characters. See null and bit stuffing.padding
padding In the context of fat fetishism, the swathing of clothing to simulate a distended abdomen, so as to evoke arousal in a fat-admiring sexual partner.LegalSeeNullFinancialSeePADpadding
Synonyms for paddingnoun fillingSynonyms- filling
- stuffing
- packing
- wadding
noun waffleSynonyms- waffle
- hot air
- verbiage
- wordiness
- verbosity
- prolixity
Synonyms for paddingnoun artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfortSynonymsRelated Words- artefact
- artifact
- cushion
- falsie
- pad
- stuffing
- cotton
- cotton fiber
- cotton wool
- kapok
- silk cotton
- vegetable silk
- straw
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