Padding

Quick meaning: Padding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of pad.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of pad.

More Meanings

1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
2. (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
3. (military, cryptography) 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.
5. The process of mordanting a fabric.
6. (ABDL) A diaper.
7. (obsolete) Robbing on a highway.

Example Sentences

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 nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers.

Word Forms

• paddings

Synonyms for padding

Depending on context, synonyms include diap, diapee, diapy, diapie, didee, didie.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cushioning, upholstery, stuffing, cushion, buffer, packing.

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