Crossword clues for cushioning
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cushioning \cushioning\ n. soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort.
Syn: padding.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cushion English)
WordNet
n. artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort [syn: padding]
Wikipedia
Package cushioning is used to help protect fragile items during shipment. It is common for a transport package to be dropped, kicked, and impacted: These events may produce potentially damaging shocks. Transportation vibration from conveyors, trucks, railroads, or aircraft can also damage some items. Shock and vibration are controlled by cushioning so that the chance of product damage is greatly reduced.
Cushioning is usually inside a shipping container such as a corrugated box. It is designed to deform or crush to help keep levels of shock and vibration below levels that may damage the product inside the box. Depending on the specific situation, package cushioning can often be between 50 and 75 millimeters (two to three inches) thick.
Internal packaging materials (sometimes the same ones used for cushioning) are also used for functions other than cushioning. Some are used just to immobilize the products in the box and to block them in place. Others are just used to fill a void and do not have a cushioning function.
Usage examples of "cushioning".
In spite of the cushioning foam and the padding of her seat, she felt thoroughly wrung out.
The impact rammed him back into his chair, the lights flickered and went out, and crash-systems deployed, cushioning him from worse shock.
She was thrust back into the cushioning of her seat as the shuttle took off.
Alessan carefully packed the serums, needlethorns, and Pollen's glass syringe into the saddlebag, cushioning them with clean straw, then mounted and urged Skinny onto the roadway.
She took the pot from the protecting encirclement of Sebell's curved fingers and carefully upended it on the hearth, her fingers cushioning the egg until the sand spilled away from it.
When she was settled, he lay down and put his arm around her, cushioning her head on his shoulder as he so often did-only now he did it consciously, not merely in response to the habits of five Turns.
Parker Higgens liked to keep his world neat and tidy, it was one of his formulas for success, which was why he was particularly shocked to come into work one morning and find a young blonde-haired girl lounging in the deep cushioning of his straight-backed chair behind his desk.
And because of it their children whimpered and snivelled in wretched distress without any cushioning below them.
He groaned, clutching at the cushioning of his acceleration couch, heart pounding in his ears.
Aethra could see the ceiling of the cabin through a dozen sets of pained eyes, feeling the cushioning give below overstressed back muscles.
His fingers were still digging into the cushioning, frozen in a claw-like posture, nails broken by the strength he’d used to maul the fabric.
She was thrust back into the cushioning of her seat as the shuttle took off.
He rolled like a log, cushioning the rifle, flipping over three times, the maneuver that was second nature from his Scout training.
Claudia insisted on sitting in the back with Shadrach, cushioning his head on her lap.
Keeping her legs spread, he lifted them until they draped over his thighs, the lips of her cunt cushioning the hard tip of his cock.