padding.
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
Meaning & usage
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
Anything of little value used to fill up space.
That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
The process of mordanting a fabric.
A diaper.
Robbing on a highway.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English pad Proto-Germanic *-ungō Old English -ung Middle English -ynge English -ing English padding From pad + -ing.
present participle and gerund of pad
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.