What does padding mean?
Padding means present participle and gerund of pad.
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/ˈpædɪŋ/ · verb
present participle and gerund of pad.
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.
Use padding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Padding means present participle and gerund of pad.
Common synonyms include diap, diapee, diapy, diapie.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
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