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pad·ding
(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.
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padding
(ˈpædɪŋ)n
1. any soft material used to pad clothes, furniture, etc
2. superfluous material put into a speech or written work to pad it out; waffle
3. (Accounting & Book-keeping) inflated or false entries in a financial account, esp an expense account
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pad•ding
(ˈpæd ɪŋ)n.
1. material, as cotton or straw, used to pad something.
2. something added unnecessarily or dishonestly.
[1820–30]
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padding
Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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| Noun | 1. |  padding - artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfortcushion - 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 brassiere pad - a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort stuffing - padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture kapok, silk cotton, vegetable silk - a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation straw - plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder |
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padding
noun
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Translations
حَشْوة من صوف او قُطن
vycpávka
beskyttelsespolstringfyld
tróî, stopp
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
padding
[ˈpædɪŋ] n (= soft material) (for protection) → rembourrage m; (for comfort) → rembourrage m
(in speech, essay, report) → délayage m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
padding
n
(= material) → Polsterung f
(fig: in essay etc) → Füllwerk nt, → Füllsel pl
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
pad1
(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.
2. sheets of paper fixed together. a writing-pad.
3. a platform from which rockets are sent off. a launching-pad.
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.
ˈpadding noun material used to make a pad to protect, fill etc. He used old blankets as padding.
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.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
padding
n. relleno.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
padding
n acolchado, material usado para acolcharEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.