padding

Soft filling material used in cushions etc.

Noun

  1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  2. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  3. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
  4. Anything of little value used to fill up space.
    • That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
    • But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but...
  5. The process of mordanting a fabric.
  6. A diaper.

    Synonyms: diap diapee diapy diapie didee didie diddy didy dipe hippins napkin nappy pamper Pampers pampers dip gamer pants gaming pants omutsu padding pamp pampie pamps

  7. Robbing on a highway.

Origin

Etymology tree English pad Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English padding From pad + -ing.

Forms

paddings

Derived

laughter padding padding-ken stat padding underpadding

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of pad

Origin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.