Definitions for PAD

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PAD pad

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IPA: /pæd/

Pad is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in PAD (adp).

Definitions for PAD

noun

1. a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.
2. a soft, stuffed cushion used as a saddle; a padded leather saddle without a tree.
3. a number of sheets of paper glued or otherwise held together at one edge to form a tablet.
4. a soft, ink-soaked block of absorbent material for inking a rubber stamp.
5. Anatomy, Zoology. any fleshy mass of tissue that cushions a weight-bearing part of the body, as on the underside of a paw.
6. the foot, as of a fox, hare, or wolf.
7. a piece or fold of gauze or other absorbent material for use as a surgical dressing or a protective covering.
8. Zoology. a pulvillus, as on the tarsus or foot of an insect.
9. a lily pad.
10. Rocketry. launch pad.
11. Slang. one's living quarters, as an apartment or room. one's bed. a room where people gather to take narcotics; an addicts' den.
12. 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.
13. Electricity. a nonadjustable attenuator consisting of a network of fixed resistors.
14. 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.
15. Carpentry. a handle for holding various small, interchangeable saw blades. Also, pod. a socket in a brace for a bit.
16. Metallurgy. a raised surface on a casting.
17. a small deposit of weld metal, as for building up a worn surface.
18. a dull, muffled sound, as of footsteps on the ground.
19. a road horse, as distinguished from a hunting or working horse.
20. a highwayman.
21. British Dialect. a path, lane, or road.

Idioms

1. on the pad, Slang. (of a police officer) receiving a bribe, especially on a regular basis.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish, protect, fill out, or stuff with a pad or padding.
2. to expand or add to unnecessarily or dishonestly:
3. Metallurgy. to add metal to (a casting) above its required dimensions, to insure the flow of enough metal to all parts.
4. to travel along on foot.
5. to beat down by treading.

verb (used without object)

1. to insure the proper forging of a piece.
2. to travel on foot; walk.
3. to walk so that one's footsteps make a dull, muffled sound.

Origin of PAD

1545-55; orig. special uses of obsolete pad bundle to lie on, perhaps blend of pack¹ and bed

Examples for PAD

The agent across from Todashev is said to have presented him with a pad and he began to write a confession.

Next he laced on first the right skate, with a pad of cotton under the tongue, and then the left.

He described in painful detail the composition of the bars and the heavy shackles on the pad locks.

I always have a pad on my bedside, in case I want to write straight away.

Some believe this was all a ploy by the Dean to pad his resume.

For seconds, there was revealed the busy stenographer, bent over his pad.

"Write it on the regular form," she said, and pushed a pad and pencil toward him.

The upholsterer should so fill the pad that the wearer will have difficulty in balancing it.

"We are very glad to welcome you to the McKee family," was what was written on the pad.

He went over to the desk and began to scribble a name on the pad of paper.