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Protect from impact
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cushioning
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Word definitions for cushioning in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the cushioning has to be in the mid or forefoot, where the foot hits, rather than the heel. ▪ Each key has a full travel with good cushioning for the heavy handed. ▪ Even Shaw's big flanks and shoulders gave him no cushioning ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cushioning \cushioning\ n. soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort. Syn: padding.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort [syn: padding ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in 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, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cushion English)
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.