Pad Definition
păd
padded, padding, pads
noun
pads
A piece of equipment consisting of shaped cushioning material often attached to a hard outer surface and worn to protect against blows, collisions, or shots.
American Heritage
Anything made of or stuffed with soft material to fill out a shape, protect against friction, pressure, jarring, or blows, etc.; cushion.
A shoulder pad, seat pad.
Webster's New World
A soft, stuffed saddle.
Webster's New World
A piece of folded gauze, compressed cotton, etc. used as a dressing or protection on a wound, etc.
Webster's New World
The floating leaf of a water plant, as the waterlily.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
- stamp-pad
- inking pad
- inkpad
- tablet
- pad of paper
- launch-pad
- launchpad
- launching pad
- launch area
- lodgings
- domiciliation
- digs
- diggings
- living quarters
- apartment
verb
padded, padding, pads
To travel on foot; walk; tramp.
Webster's New World
To stuff, cover, or line with a pad or padding.
Webster's New World
To walk or run with a soft, almost soundless, step.
Webster's New World
To lengthen (a speech or piece of writing) with unnecessary or irrelevant material.
Webster's New World
To go along (a route) on foot.
Padding the long road into town.
American Heritage
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idiom
on the pad
- accepting a share of the graft received collectively by members of a police precinct
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Pad
Origin of Pad
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Perhaps from Middle Dutch paden tread a path from pad, pat path pent- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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