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Definition: Padding |
PaddingNoun1. Artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "padding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | One or more characters adjacent to an item of data that serve to bring its representation up to a specified size. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A method to adjust the average length in time of an audio frame to the duration of the corresponding pulse-code modulated (PCM) samples, by conditionally adding a slot to the audio frame. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Tissu qui sert doubler les vestes de ski. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The application of a liquor or paste to textiles, either by passing the material through a bath and subsequently through squeeze rollers, or by passing it between squeeze rollers, the bottom one of which carries the liquor or paste. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Padding The filling-up stuff of serials. The padding of coats and gowns is the wool, etc., put in to make the figure of the wearer more shapely. Figuratively, stuff in books or speeches to spin them out. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: PaddingSynonym: cushioning (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lining | Filling, stuffing, wadding, padding. |
Softness | Clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding; alumina, argil; cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding;foam. |
Stopper | Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We're padding! Like a couple of bleeding sofas (The Singing Detective; writing credit: Dennis Potter) | |
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References | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pictured is one white nude mouse. The mouse is crawling around on a lab table, which is covered with a white padding. Nude mice, because of a genetic defect, have no thymus and cannot make certain cells essential for various immune responses. Because of this, they are extremely helpful to scientists working in Immunology Research. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She felt it carefully and thought she could detect in the lappels and in the padding, thicknesses of paper |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use an emery board or pumice stone to file away dead skin, but do not remove calluses, which act as protective padding. (references) | |
Another common type of back pain is associated with the discs of the spine, the soft, spongy padding between the vertebrae (bones) that form the spine. (references) | ||
This will help ensure maximal independence while minimizing the risk of injury from a fall. Individuals can also wear special padding during walks to help protect against injury from falls. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Padding" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.55% of the time. "Padding" is used about 124 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68.55% | 85 | 35,870 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 31.45% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Total | 100.00% | 124 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "padding": padding pool. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "padding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mbushje (admission, charge, dressing, fill, filling, loading, packing, pad, pervasion, stuffing, suffusion), material mbushës (fill, filling, stuffing). (various references) | |
Arabic | مل ء (bellyful, filling), حشوة (fill, filling, loading, stuffing, wad, wadding), تنجيد (lining, upholstery), تبطين, المادة المحشوة, الحشو. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уплътнителен материал (stuff, wadding), раздувам (distend, pad out), вата (batting, wadding), многословие (diffusion, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, verbalism, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness), баласт (ballast, bed, deadwood, metal), подложка (bolster, chock, cushion, insert, insertion, mat, overlay, pad, planch, rest, saddle, seat, seating, sole, stock), подплънка (filling, pad, wad, wadding). (various references) | |
Chinese | 填料, 填充 (pad). (various references) | |
Czech | vycpávka (filler, pad, stuffing, upholstery, wadding), vatování (wadding), obal (casing, container, cover, husk, packaging, packing, sleeve, tunic, wrap, wrapper, wrapping). (various references) | |
Danish | polstring (cushion, cushioning, garnish, lining, pad, upholstery), stoppemateriale (stuffing), klotze-foulardere, fyldstof (ballast, bulk, bulking agent, encrusting substance, extender, extender pigment, filler, incrusting substance, loading, size, sizing), fyld (fill, fill material, filler, filling, filling material). (various references) | |
Dutch | vulteken (filler), opvulmateriaal (stuffing), opvulling (back-filling, embankment, fill, fill embankment, stemming, stemming material, tamping), opvullen (pad, stuff, upholster), loos teken (filler), informatieloos teken (filler), foularderen, buffermateriaal (cushioning), buffer (buffer, bumper). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیمایش (Survey), لفاف (Cover, Envelope, Wrapper), له سازی , لگدمالی , لایه گذاری (Sedimentation), لایه (Layer, Leaf, Pad, Strand, Stratum), بالشتک (Pincushion). (various references) | |
Finnish | täyte (dressing, filling, makeweight, stuffing). (various references) | |
French | rembourrage, remplissage (packing), matelassure. (various references) | |
German | polsterung (upholstering, upholstery), Auffüllen (cover in, dilute, fill, fill in, fill up, refill, replenish, replenishment, serve, stock up, tank up, to fill, to fill up, top up). (various references) | |
Greek | παραγέμισμα (stopgap, stuffing, wadding). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חומר רפו", רפו" (covered, covering, upholstered, upholstery, wadding). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vattázás, terjengőssé tevés, tömőanyag (stuffing), töltelékanyag, sortöltő szó, kitömés (stuffing, wadding), kipárnázás (stuffing), hosszú lére eresztés, henye szó (expletive, tag). (various references) | |
Italian | imbottitura (bolster, pad, stuffing, upholstery, wadding). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 綿 (cotton, raw cotton). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"じ (acupuncture, emperor's seal, kanji made in Japan, mind, sacred jewels, serving as a retainer, Shinto rituals, title affixed to man's posthumous Buddhist name), つめもの (filling or packing material, stuffing), わた (cotton), と" (alcove, bed, endless, ever, sickbed). (various references) | |
Korean | 패". (various references) | |
Manx | stooal. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addingpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | zona de preenchimento (filler), fulardagem, entretela (gusset, wadding), enchimento (charging, distension, replenishment, shim, wad, wadding), chumaço (dossil, wad, wadding), bucha (plug, stopgap, stopper, tampion, wad), almofadado (cushiony, padded), algodão em rama (raw cotton, wadding), acolchoamento (upholstery, wadding), acolchoado (bedspread, comforter, padded, quilt, upholsterer). (various references) | |
Romanian | vatã (batting, cotton, cotton wool, wadding), vãtuire, umpluturã (filling, forcemeat, rubbish, stuffing), material de umpliturã, cãptuşealã (lagging, liner, lining, pad, planking), bumbac (cotton). (various references) | |
Russian | грунтование, набивка (compression, filling, gasket, pack, stuffing, wadding), набивочный материал, многословие (prolixity, redundance, redundancy, verbalism, verbiage, verbosity, wordiness), заполнять заполнение. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | punjenje (charge, fill, filler, load, loading, stuffing), povećanje (augment, augmentation, enhancement, increase, increment), postavljanje (installation, lining, placement, quilting, setting, setting up), materijal za postavu, ispunjavanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | relleno (blinding, filled, filler, filling, packing, pad, padded, replacement, replenishment, stuffing, supplement, wadding), acolchado (padded, quilted, quilting). (various references) | |
Swedish | stoppning (darn, darning, pad, stuffing, upholstery, wadding). (various references) | |
Turkish | fodra, dolgu malzemesi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | набивка (stuffing, wadding), набивання, багатослівність (circumlocution, nimiety, pleonasm, prolixity, verbiage, verbosity), підкладка (back, backing, lining, pad, pillow). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật lót, sự lót, sự độn vật đệm, sự đệm. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "padding": paddings. (additional references) | |
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"Padding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: padang, paddings, paddint, Padina, Pandang, Pedxing, perding, podding, puddingy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "padding" (pronounced pa"ding) |
| 4 | -a" d i ng | adding, gadding, Gladding, madding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gilding, girding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-i-n-p" | |
-1 letter: adding, giddap. | |
-2 letters: aping, gaddi, gadid. | |
-3 letters: agin, dang, ding, gadi, gain, nipa, padi, paid, pain, pang, pian, pina, ping. | |
-4 letters: add, aid, ain, and, ani, dad, dag, dap, did, dig, din, dip, gad, gan, gap, gid, gin, gip, nag, nap, nip, pad, pan, pia, pig, pin. | |
-5 letters: ad, ag, ai, an, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-g-i-n-p" | |
+1 letter: paddings, paddling. | |
+2 letters: paddlings. | |
+3 letters: paddocking, spraddling. | |
+4 letters: deadpanning, depredating, dispreading, superadding. | |
+5 letters: dilapidating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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