Definitions for padding

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padding pad·ding

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IPA: /ˈpæd ɪŋ/

Padding is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in padding (addginp).

Definitions for padding

noun

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

First recorded in 1820-30; pad¹ + -ing¹

Examples for padding

I'm getting ready for the jump now—that's why I'm padding myself.

Fate had caught him in a vice; he had spent eighteen active years in padding that vice.

There's nothing there but padding; and a greasy sort it is.'

I visibly winced as I saw the bloodied, bruised, and deformed toes wrapped with tape and padding.

At their heels was the soft rustle of many thousands of padding feet.

Still, for a woman who has been accused of padding her résumé, Anderson might want to update her Web site.

For Richard Nixon, the war on drugs was more than just a formula for padding arrest statistics and looking tough on law and order.

Or should one write novels of peasant life with plenty of padding?

And they're padding a device van to take Sally to the labs when they're ready.

If I were writing a shilling volume, I should put them in by way of padding.