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Pad

Definition: Pad

Pad

Noun

1. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.

2. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp.

3. A usually thin flat mass of padding.

4. A platform from which rockets or space craft are launched.

5. Temporary living quarters.

6. The foot or fleshy cushion-like underside of the toes of an animal.

Verb

1. Add details to.

2. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle around a gin" D.H. Lawrence.

3. Line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra".

4. Add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Pad

DomainDefinition

Computing

PAD Packet Assembler/Disassembler. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Aerospace

= launch pad. (references)

Census

Designation for the (Principal Associate Director), Bureau of the Census. Established May 1994. (references)

Chemical Industry

A machine used to dye piece goods in a mangle by a continuous passage of the material through the dye liquor and squeeze rollers. Source: European Union. (references)

Engineering & Technology

A container made of pieces of thin veneer, used for packing berries, vegetables, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

A plug used to occludate an orifice in the control of bleeding, or to mop up secretions ; an absorbant pad. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. Ground-contact part of a crawler-type track b. See:wallplate c. The refractory brickwork below the molten iron at the base of a blastfurnace. (references)

Public Administration

A number of sheets of paper (as for writing or drawing) that are grouped together in a stack of varying thickness that are fastened at one end. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang in 1811

PAD. The highway, or a robber thereon; also a bed. Footpads; foot robbers. To go out upon the pad; to go out in order to commit a robbery. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Pad

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pad (in electronic music) is a sound (timbre), which can be used to produce soft, imperceptible harmonic background. The most common (almost standard) types of pads are: choir pad, strings, warm pad etc.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pad."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Pad

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

PAD

EnglishPulsed amperometric detectorN/A

PAD

FrenchPrime d'abandon définitifFood & Agriculture, Finance

PAD

GermanAbteilung PostautodienstPublic Administration, Post & Telecom

PAD

PortugueseEmpacotador/desempacotadorElectrical Engineering, Post & Telecom

PAD

SpanishPerfil de aplicación de documentosComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Pad

Synonyms: diggings (n), digs (n), domiciliation (n), inking pad (n), inkpad (n), launch area (n), launch pad (n), launching pad (n), launchpad (n), lodgings (n), pad of paper (n), stamp pad (n), tablet (n), aggrandise (v), aggrandize (v), blow up (v), bolster (v), dramatise (v), dramatize (v), embellish (v), embroider (v), fill out (v), footslog (v), lard (v), plod (v), slog (v), tramp (v), trudge (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pad

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Noun: abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address, habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat,

Carrier

Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud.

Departure

Starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation; airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport.

Expansion

Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.

Lining

Verb: line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pad

English words defined with "pad": arm guard, arm padbody padcalefactive, calefactory, carpet pad, chest protector, cleaning pad, compressDabberelbow pad, epaulet, epauletteFrizette, futonheating, heating pad, hip pad, hot padInkerknee pad, Kotexliftoffmat, mattress, mattress pad, message padnotepadPad tree, paillasse, pallet, palliasse, panel, potholder, puffrug padsanitary napkin, Sashoon, scouring pad, scratch pad, scratch paper, scribbling block, shoulder pad, soap pad, steel-wool padtable mat, thigh pad, thumbprint, Tompon, trussunderfelt, underlay, underlaymentwrist pad, writing pad. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pad": extended PADHIGH PADLOW PADMOLDER, SHOULDER PAD, mouse padPAD BORROWERS, pad cutter and assembler, pad deluge, PAD HAND, pad maker, pad tufterRUM PADtermination pad, TO PAD THE HOOF. (references)
Etymologies containing "pad": Pod. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Pad" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (road, route, way), Dutch (path, toad), Hungarian (band, bench, pew, seat), Portuguese (access concentrator, packet assembler/disassembler concentrator, PAD concentrator, remote access point), Serbo-Croatian (collapse, come down, decline, downfall, drop, fall, hang, overturn, spill, tumble).

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Modern Usage: Pad

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Welcome to the maxi pad. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Helen Childress)

Hey, Goldmember! Hey, Goldmember! He's got a golden pad, he's super bad. Hey, Goldmember (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers)

I installed two-way mirrors in his pad in Brentwood, and he come to the door in a dress (Repo Man; writing credit: Alex Cox)

And remember, the door's always open to ya, Pete! You can come home to the pad and all your frends (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

When they find out who you are they'll pad the cell (Bringing Up Baby; writing credit: Hagar Wilde; Dudley Nichols)

Lyrics

What cause I been in the lab wit a pen and a pad (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre)

Now my party pad is out in the woods ("All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight"; performing artist: Hank Williams Jr.)

Drove her to the pad and I'm coasting (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube)

Drove to the pad and hit the showers (It Was a Good Day; performing artist: Ice Cube)

Movie/TV Titles

Soft Pad (1970)

The Pad and How to Use It (1966)

Knee Pad Nymphos Vol. #4 (2002)

Sketch Pad (2001)

Pad Italije (1981)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Pad

DomainTitle

References

  • American Pad & Paper Company: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Precious Moments.: Always Friends With Fun Animal Stamps and Stamp Pad (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Gymnastics Pad Drills - Pad Drills No. 1 (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Pad

Photos:
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Photo Album: Pad

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Pictured is a gel envelope being placed on a test pad, in a laboratory setting. Visible also are the rubber-gloved hands of scientists, a glass sheet and a white paper covering. They are preparing for the southern blot technique, now used in recombinant DNA technology. These new technologies have revolutionized the way scientists can look at the detail of cellular molecules. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Seated at a dining room table is a mother showing her daughter something on a yellow note pad. Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer).

Mercury-Atlas Rocket on the Launch Pad. Credit: NASA.

Wernher von Braun and Saturn IB on Launch Pad. Credit: NASA.

Cape Clear with helicopter landing pad in the foreground. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Removing an existing pad to lower the fish entranceway at the restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Bumper No. 8, a captured German V-2 rocket, lifts off from Cape Canaveral. This rocket exploded in flight, but was the first to lift off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Credit: NOAA in Space.

TIROS IV lifting off the pad. Launched by 3-stage Thor Delta rocket #317 the satellite was equipped with two television cameras for photographing cloud cover and with infrared sensors to make measurements of the earth's surface, atmosphere, and cloud tops. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Delta IV lifts off from space launch pad 37B.

CAMP BUTMIR, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AFPN) -- Tech. Sgt. James Monk (left) and Master Sgt. Scott Wagers walk away from a helicopter landing pad here as a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk rises into the air behind them. Wagers and Scott are two aerial-qualified comb.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Pad
 

"Mobile Phone Pad" by Brian Griesbaum
Commentary: "Motorola Startac Mobile Phone Pad."
"Touch pad" by Toño Pérez
Commentary: "Mouse."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Pad".

PlayCaption
A synthesized accompaniment pad for a Latin jazz-style guitar solo.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pad

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

This is a small foam pad you place over the urethra opening. (references)

For example, your child may want to hold a gauze pad or watch for a signal. (references)

This test strip has a special chemically treated pad to detect ketones in the urine. (references)

Business

The screens, as of yet, are too small to support graphics and colors, and the keypads are nothing more than a standard telephone pad with three letters designated for each number. (references)

Foreign companies with a long-term view and competitive products should find the UK profitable - both as a market in and of itself, and as a launching pad to pursue projects in the EU and in the developing world. (references)

Other aspects favoring the region include the fact that South Africas Hartbeeshoek earth station is playing an important role in satellite launching and tracking procedures, especially in the first hours directly after the rockets leave Arianspaces launch pad at Kourou in French-Guinana, South America. (references)

Economic History

Albania

Main political parties: Agrarian Party (PA); Albanian National Front (PBK); Albanian Republican Party (PR); Albanian Socialist Party (PS); Christian Democratic Party (PDK); Democratic Alliance (PAD); Democratic Party of Albania (PD); New Democrat Party (New DP); Liberal Democratic Union Party (PBL); Movement of Legality Party (PLL); Party of National Unity (PUK); Party of Albanian National Front (PBK); Social Democratic Party (PSD); Unity for Human Rights Party (PBDNJ). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pad

"Pad" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.99% of the time. "Pad" is used about 627 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)92.99%58310,863
Lexical Verb (infinitive)4.14%2668,323
Lexical Verb (base form)2.55%1687,710
Noun (proper)0.32%2245,945
                    Total100.00%627N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Pad

CountryName
USA

American Pad & Paper Company

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Pad

Expressions using "pad": a hair pad ankle pad arm pad be on the pad bed pad blotting pad body pad brake pad brillo pad carpet pad cleaning pad crash pad disc brake pad elbow pad electric heat pad extended PAD felt pad game pad gentleman of the pad hearth pad heating pad heating resistance pad hip pad hot pad ink pad inking pad kidney pad knee pad launch pad launching pad letter pad lily pad mattress pad memo pad message pad mouse pad mycelial pad on the pad pad about pad along pad board sheet pad cloth PAD concentrator pad elephant pad it pad of paper pad out pad saddle pad tree paint pad rug pad scouring pad scratch pad scratch pad memory scribbling pad sea pad shin pad shoe pad shoulder pad sketch pad sleeping pad soap pad stamp pad steno pad termination pad thigh pad warming pad wetted pad evaporative cooler wrist pad writing pad X.25 PAD. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "pad": pad-batting, pad-eye, pad-like, pad-mounted, pad-nag, pad-saw, pad-shaw.

Ending with "pad": bat-pad, ink-pad, launching-pad, launch-pad, note-pad, sketch-pad, writing-pad.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pad

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mouse pad

1,304

foam mattress pad

138

game pad

824

rocking chair pad

134

brake pad

551

pad thai

130

sleeping pad

449

pad printing

119

pad

444

pad thai recipe

117

mattress pad

438

memory foam mattress pad

108

chair pad

415

lily pad

100

note pad

412

shoulder pad

96

mouse pad maphack

355

text pad

93

table pad

295

2 diablo maphack mouse pad

89

knee pad

267

discount pad ten

85

leap pad

254

mouse pad ezboard

84

goalie pad

200

lilly pad

84

heating pad

196

carpet pad

80

custom mouse pad

155

fetish foot mouse pad

79

free mouse pad

155

lover menstrual pad

77

word pad

154

ibm think pad

77

saddle pad

144

change brake pad

76

dial pad

142

rug pad

74

pad for trampoline

140

stamp pad

73
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Pad

Language Translations for "pad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

blok (block). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

putër (claw, foot, paw), shesh lëshimi raketash, bllok shënimesh (block, Jotter, note book, pocket book, scratch pad, workbook, writing pad), fole (aerie, aery, chase, mortise, nest, nidus, socket), gjeth zambaku uji, jastëk (cushion, pillow), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out), mbushje (admission, charge, dressing, fill, filling, loading, packing, padding, pervasion, stuffing, suffusion), bllok (bloc, block, book, complex, lump, tablet, unit), shalë kali, zgjas kot, shilte (Hassock, squab), shkel lehtë, shtoj artificialisht, strehë (asylum, awning, cover, dwelling, hangout, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, hostel, house, housing, hovel, Lee, lodgement, lodgment, lurking place, mew, peak, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roof, sanctuary, sanctum, sconce, shade, shed, shelter), tampon boje, vë vatë, vatë (wad, wadding), vend fjetjeje, rrumbullakos (fill out). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏واقية الرسغ, ‏دثر (muffle, swaddle), ‏إرتحل سيرا, ‏إجتاز سيرا على القدمين, ‏إضمامة الورق, ‏الورقة الطافية من نبات مائي, ‏ضمادة (bandage, dressing, ligature, lint, stupe), ‏عبر بإطناب, ‏تصبح دسمة, ‏حشا (beef up, cake, cram, jam, load, pack, poke, quilt, ram, stuff, tamp, tampon, wad), ‏حشا بقطن, ‏بطن (abdomen, back, belly, gorge, interiorize, internalize, line, middle, paunch, quilt, redouble, stomach, underlay, venter), ‏غرفة (camera, cell, chamber, compartment, room), ‏مخمد صوت, ‏واقية الساق, ‏واقية الكاحل, ‏وسادة (bolster, cushion, pillow, squab), ‏وتد (cleat, coin, dowel, nog, pale, peg, picket, pin, pole, spar, stake, wedge), ‏قدم الحيوان (paw), ‏لبدة (sinter), ‏نجد (line, plateau, relieve, rescue, salvage, socle, upholster), ‏مشى بخطى خافتة, ‏مخدة صغيرة, ‏مخمد, ‏حشية (bed, bolster, mattress). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

набивка (gasket, packing, wad, wadding), плъстя (felt), подплънка (filling, padding, wad, wadding), подпълвам с мека материя, подложка (bolster, chock, cushion, insert, insertion, mat, overlay, padding, planch, rest, saddle, seat, seating, sole, stock), попивателна (blotter, blotting paper), път (approach, door, drive, driveway, fetch, gateway, itinerary, journey, key, lode, part, parting, passage, path, pathway, race, ride, riding, road, roadway, route, time, track, trail, tube, way), бия път, блок (bloc, block, bloom, brick, lump, pig), бележник (agenda, aide-memoire, book, notebook, pocket book, remembrancer, scratch pad, scribbling pad, writing pad), лист на водна лилия, лапа (application, flapper, flipper, fluke, fomentation, paw, poultice, pud, stupe), легло (bed, bunk, bye bye, cushion, doss, hay, kip, mounting, pillow block, sack), плъст (felt), меко седло, следа от лапа, накленик, ватирам (bolster, quilt, wad), възглавничка (cushion), вървя с леки тихи стъпки, кон който издържа на път, квартира (accommodation, bed, diggings, digs, housing, lodgement, lodgings, lodgment, place, quarterage, quarters, rooms, tenement), къща (abode, home, house, premises, shebang), шингард, тампон (ink pad, pledget, sponge, tampon, tent, wad), тампонирам (wad), разбойник (bandolero, brigand, desperado, felon, footpad, highwayman, outlaw, robber, scamp, scoundrel, villain), ракетна площадка (launching pad), слагам подплънки на, мека подложка. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

襯墊 , (PADS), (cushion, mat), 填充 (padding). (various references)

   

Czech

  

podložka (coaster, ink-lines, underlay, washer), podložit vatou, vycpat (stuff, wad), vycpávka (filler, padding, stuffing, upholstery, wadding), sedlo (saddle, seat, yoke), blok na psaní, bejvák (hang out), bříško (tummy), šlapat (behave, leg it, tramp, tread). (various references)

   

Danish

  

blok (block). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

blok (block, chunk of wood, cube, pulley). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

remburi (stuff, upholster), bloko (block). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

stappa (stuff, upholster), bólstra (stuff, upholster). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تشک (Mattress, Panel), بالایه نرم یابالشتک پوشاندن , بالسشتک زخم بندی , دزدپیاده , اب خشک کن , اسبراهوار, جاده (Causeway, Line, Path, Pathway, Street, Track, Turnpike, Way), بااب وتاب گفتن , زیرپالگدکردن , پیاده سفرکردن , قدم زدن (Gait, Pace, Step, Stride, Stroll, Traipse, Vamp), لایه (Layer, Leaf, Padding, Strand, Stratum), لفاف کردن , هرچیزنرم , مرکب خشک کن , معبر (Approach, Conduit, Crossover, Cut, Pathway, Road, Thoroughfare, Traverse), پشتی (Back, Backrest, Hinder, Pillow, Spinal), صدای پا (Plod, Step, Tramp). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pielus (cushion), pehmustaa (cushion, upholster), pehmike (cushion), patja (mattress), suojustin (guard, protector), lehtiö (drawing pad, sketch-block), lappu (bit, label, patch, piece, shred, slip). (various references)

   

French

  

bloc (a number of sheets of paper (as for writing or drawing) that are grouped together in a stack of varying thickness that are fastened at one end., parcel), tampon (paint pad), rembourrer (pad out). (various references)

   

German

  

Polster (cushion, flab, layer of fat, padding, pads, pillow, upholstery, wad), Unterlage (base, bed, document, drawsheet, Mount, record, substratum, underlay), polstern (cushion, pad out, pads, stuff, to cushion, upholster, upholstering), Block (bar, bloc, block, book, brick, faction, ingot, log, Square, stocks, tablet, wall). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κομπρέσσα (compress, pledget, sponge, swab, tampon), σπόγγος (compress, pledget, sponge, swab, tampon), συνθήκη (convention, treaty), γέμισμα (cross, fill, filling, stuffing), βαδίζω (march, march 1, scuff, walk), μπλοκάκι, μπλοκ (notepad), μάκτρον (compress, pledget, sponge, swab, tampon), μαξιλαράκι προστασίας (cushion), προσκεφαλάκι, πεζοπορώ (foot, hike), παραγεμίζω (chock, clog, cram, engorge, fill to bursting, glut, overstuff, stuff), επίθεμα (application), δέσμη χαρτιού διά σημειώματα. (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

bllok (block). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מרפד (bed, couch, panniculus), לרפד (line, upholster, wad), פנקס (journal, ledger, notebook, pocket book, register, tablet), כרית (cushion, pillow). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tömítés (blinding, casing, caulk, gasket, oakum, plugging, plumbing, seal, sealing, stuffing), írómappa (blotting-pad, desk, writing pad), blokk (block, note-pad, receipt, sales slip), párnázás (padding), párna (bolster, cod, cod pillow, cushion, pillow), mancs (duke, flapper, leg, mauler, paw, pud), út (channel, course, device, gang, going, journey, passage, ride, road, round, route, run, seaway, voyage, way, went), írópapír tömb, egészségügyi betét, fúrótokmány, jegyzettömb (block, scratch pad), kégli, kiegyenlítő alátét, lábszárvédő (gaiter, leggings, pads, puttee, shin guards), léptek tompa nesze, ösvény (byway, footpath, loaning, path, pathway, track, trail), lapos gyékénykosár, ujjbegy (fingertip), mellvédő (nipple), nyeregállvány nélküli nyereg, nyeregpárna, nyeregváz nélküli nyereg, poroszka (ambler, jennet, palfrey), szerszámnyél (stem), táskány, tömés (cementation, cram, filling, padding, stuffing), lökéscsökkentő párna. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

blok kertas. (various references)

   

Italian

  

blocco (barrier, bloc, block, blockade, detent, gross, jam, lock, lock out, lump, stoppage), tampone (buffer, pledget, plug, stopper, swab, swob, tampon, tent, wad), imbottitura (bolster, padding, stuffing, upholstery, wadding). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

パチンコ台 (glassed-over arcade, pachinkomachine, pack, package, package media, package program, package tour, packaging, Packard, packing, paddle, paddling, paddock, Panama, Panamax, Panasert hole, panavision, pap, passage, passenger, passing, passion, passionate, passive, passive smoking, passive solar house, passive sonar, pat, patch, patch test, patchwork, pate, patent, pathos, patio, patriotism, patrol, patrol car, patron, patting, priest, puck, putt, putting, putting green, putty, rotating warning light similar to the one on a "patokaa."), 剥ぎ取り . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

パッド , はぎとり. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

패드 (PADS). (various references)

   

Manx

  

pardoge, lhieeney (billow, blow up, charge, charge as battery, cover in, fill, fill in, fill out, flood tide, flow, fuel, inset, load, make, make of tide, rise, saturate, spasm, wax, wax as moon), lapadane, kiap (block, block for burning, butt, last, log, pillow, snag, socle, stock, tree-stump, trunk, trunk of tree), block (block, cake of soap, log, paving set), bayr (avenue, drive, lane, road, roadway), aashag (boss, couch, embossment, seat, sofa). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

blòki (block). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adpay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

blok (block). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

bloco (bloc, block, book, pack), almofada (bolster, cushion, panel, pillow, pillow-block, squab). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

perniţã (cushion), pachet de vatã, pernã (cushion, pillow, squab), pernuţã, pilulã (cough lozenge, globule, lozenge, pellet, pill, pilule), proptea (post, prop, shore, stanchion, supporter), pat (bed, bedstead, bunk, cot, couch, doss, layer, pallet, stalemate), umple cu vatã sau pãr, şea (pigskin), bloc de foi de scris, cãptuşealã (lagging, liner, lining, padding, planking), cãptuşi cu material moale, cal liniştit, desen (depiction, design, designing, draft, draught, drawing, free hand, pattern, sketch), drumul mare (highway), labã (arm, claw, fin, fist, flapper, flipper, foot, paw, sole), lungi cu cuvinte goale sau amãnunte inutile, mâner de unealtã, merge tiptil (stalk, tiptoe), tampon (buffer, cushion, plug, plugging, tampon, wad, Wick), înfunda (clog, head, obstruct, shove, stick, stuff), umple cu cuvinte goale, vãtui (leveret, quilt, wad), umfla (bag, belly, blow, bunt, expand, fill, fill out, grow, heighten, inflate, overdraw, puff, swell), umbla (circulate, drive, go, go up, journey, leg it, pace, ride, scour, travel, walk, wander, work), tuşierã (ink pad, inking pad), rampã de lansare, reazem (column, fulcrum, prop, stay, support, tower), suport (bolster, carriage, chuck, foot, holdfast, Jack, leg, mat, Mount, pedal, plinth, prop, puncheon, reliance, shore, stanchion, stand, steady, stem, support), tabletã (lozenge, pellet, slab, tabloid, troche), merge pe jos (foot it, hoof it, pad it, tread, walk, walk upon). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

заполнять панель;блокнот, плетеная корзина, подбивать ватой, подкладка (lining, pillow, saddle), подушечка (dauber), подушка (cushion, pedestal, pillow, pillow block, saddle), прокладка (gasket, insertion, layer, laying, packing, separator, spacer, strip, weatherstrip), блокнот (deskpad, jotter, note book, notepad, scratch pad, tablet, worksheet, writing pad), дополнять (complement, elaborate, supplement, supplemented, supplementing), заполнять (brim with, brimming, brimming with, fill, fill in, fill out, fill up, fill with, filling, pack, populate, populated, populating), стартовый стол, затычка (bung, gag, obturator, peg, plug, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tampion), мягкая прокладка, мягкое седло, втулка (boss, bung, bushing, collar, hob, nave, peg, quill, sleeve, socket, spigot, spile, tampion, vent-peg), грунтовать (prime), щит (dash, gate, guard, mantelet, pavis, screen, shield, windbreak), раздувать (bloat, overblow), растягивать рассказ, лапа (claw, fluke, palm, paw). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

povećati (augment, blow up, enhance, increase, magnify, up), postaviti (appoint, designate, induct, instal, install, mount, picket, pitch, place, plant, pose, posit, post, put, quilt, seat, set, set out, set up, situate, string), podmetač (mat, shim, wafer), podloga (base, bolster, cradle, groundwork), platforma (pallet, platform, ramp), uložak (cushion, insert, insole), tapacirati (upholster), stan (apartment, diggings, housing, lodging, place, residence, rooms), rampa (ramp, tollgate), meko sedlo, jastučić, jastuče (cushion, pillow), hodati (pace, truck, walk), blok (bloc). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bloque (block, brick, slab, snarl up), almohadilla (inkpad, pound, small cushion), relleno (blinding, filled, filler, filling, packing, padded, padding, replacement, replenishment, stuffing, supplement, wadding). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kudde (cushion, pillar, pillow, sachet), vaddera (wad), madrassera (cushion, muffle), dyna (cushion, pillow, squab), block (bloc, block, boulder, pulley, shoetree, stock). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ped koymak, ped (diaper), pamukla doldurmak (wad), yastık (bolster, cushion, pillow), sümen, rampa (ascent, boarding, gantry, gantry scaffold, gauntry, launching pad, launching platform, platform, raise, ramp), keçe ile kaplamak (felt), keçe (felt, felting, haircloth, mat), haraç (exaction, extortion, protection, racket, tax, tribute), bloknot (writing pad), blok (bloc, block, complex), şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat, bloat up, blow up, bulk, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, heighten, inflate, overcharge, pad out, pile it on, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, run up, swell out, swell up, tumefy), ayak izi (footmark, footprint, pug, step), altlık (base, Mount, mounting, planch, support), ıstampa (ink pad, inking pad, rubber stamp, stamp). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

іти слідами звіра, щиток (corymb, dashboard, scutum), м'яке сідло, лапа (hand, leg, paw, puller), підкладка (back, backing, lining, padding, pillow), підбивати ватою (wad), подушка (chock, cod, pillow), перевантажувати (congest, overburden, overcharge, overload, overweight, reload, supercharge, surcharge, tranship, transship), перебільшувати (amplify, dramatize, exaggerate, heighten, magnify, overcolour, overdo, overstate, pile up the agony, romance, too go too far), дорога (driveway, my dear, ride, road, walking, way). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

yên ngựa có đệm tập giấy thấm, tiệm hút, cái lót, cái đệm (bearing, cushion). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pad

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

caudex, codex. (various references)

German100 BCE-Modern

Buschel. (various references)

Middle Dutch1100-1500

paden. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pad

Derivations

Words beginning with "pad": padauk, padauks, padded, padder, padders, paddies, padding, paddings, paddle, paddleball, paddleballs, paddleboard, paddleboards, paddleboat, paddleboats, paddled, paddlefish, paddlefishes, paddler, paddlers, paddles, paddling, paddlings, paddock, paddocked, paddocking, paddocks, paddy, padi, padis, padishah, padishahs, padle, padles, padlock, padlocked, padlocking, padlocks, padnag, padnags, padouk, padouks, padre, padres, padri, padrone, padrones, padroni, pads, padshah, padshahs. (additional references)

Words ending with "pad": footpad, helipad, keypad, kneepad, lampad, launchpad, notepad, scorepad. (additional references)

Words containing "pad": compadre, compadres, escapade, escapades, espadrille, espadrilles, footpads, gallopade, gallopades, galopade, galopades, helipads, hypospadias, hypospadiases, keypads, kneepads, lampads, launchpads, notepads, pompadour, pompadoured, pompadours, respade, respaded, respades, respading, scorepads, spade, spaded, spadefish, spadefishes, spadeful, spadefuls, spader, spaders, spades, spadework, spadeworks, spadices, spadille, spadilles, spading, spadix, spadixes, spado, spadones, strappado, strappadoes, strappados, tapadera, tapaderas. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apad, apd, Apdo, Fpda, paa, paav, pab, pada, padc, pade, padi, padl, pado, padu, pady, paf, paj, pand, pandp, pao, p'ao, paq, pard, Paud, Paudi, pav, paxd, paz, pba, pcd, Pcdi, pda, Pdan, pdd, pdr, pdu, pdw, pead, ped, pede, Pedi, pedy, pedz, pewd, pfa, pfad, phad, phade, phdd, piad, pid, Pidd, pidy, plad, pld, pmd, poad, podo, ppd, prad, prawd, prd, Psad, psd, puda, pudd, pudz, pwd, pxd, Pyd. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pad"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "pad" (pronounced pa"d)
2-a" dad, add, bad, Brad, cad, Chad, clad, dad, lad, mad, fad, forbad, gad, glad, grad, had, plaid, rad, sad, Scad, shad, tad.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Pad

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dap.

Words within the letters "a-d-p"

-1 letter: ad, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-p"
 

+1 letter: aped, apod, damp, daps, dopa, padi, pads, paid, pard.

 

+2 letters: adapt, adept, adopt, aphid, apods, caped, damps, dopas, drape, gaped, japed, paced, paddy, padis, padle, padre, padri, paged, pagod, paled, panda, pandy, paned, pardi, pards, pardy, pared, pated, paved, pavid, pawed, payed, pedal, plaid, plead, podia, purda, raped, rapid, sapid, spade, spado, spaed, taped, vapid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Abbreviations
18. Acronyms
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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