Crossword clues for padding
padding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Padding \Pad"ding\, n.
The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
The material with which anything is padded.
Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.
--London Sat. Rev.(Calico Printing) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
Pad \Pad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Padded; p. pr. & vb. n. Padding.]
To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
(Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
--Ure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"material used in stuffing," 1828, verbal noun from pad (v.2).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Soft filling material used in cushions etc. 2 (context computing English) Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length. 3 (context military English) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or lengthJoint Publication 1-02 ''U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).''. vb. (present participle of pad English)
WordNet
n. artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort [syn: cushioning]
v. add details to [syn: embroider, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise]
walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, tramp]
line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra" [syn: fill out]
add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair" [syn: bolster]
n. a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge [syn: pad of paper, tablet]
the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)
a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp [syn: inkpad, inking pad, stamp pad]
a usually thin flat mass of padding
a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched [syn: launching pad, launchpad, launch pad, launch area]
temporary living quarters [syn: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings]
the foot or fleshy cushion-like underside of the toes of an animal
See pad
Wikipedia
In cryptography, padding refers to a number of distinct practices.
Padding is thin cushioned material sometimes added to clothes. It is often done in an attempt to soften impacts on certain zones of the body or enhance appearance by 'improving' a physical feature, often a sexually significant one. In fashion, there is padding for:
- Breasts – sometimes called falsies
- The male crotch – usually called a codpiece.
- Height – usually in shoes and often called elevator shoes.
- Width of shoulders, called shoulder pads – in coats and other garments for men, and sometimes for women.
Padding is a soft material used for the sake of comfort or to change the shape of something.
Padding may also refer to:
- Schedule padding, time added to a transportation schedule making it resilient to delay
- In computer programming, Data structure alignment, achieved by "padding" structures with unused bytes
- Padding (cryptography), increasing the length of a message prior to encryption so that its actual length is not disclosed
- Resume padding, fluff added to a resume
- CSS padding, a type of spacing used to lay out websites
Usage examples of "padding".
He lay down on the padding, then changed his mind and got up to walk to Pacino, Alameda, and Schultz.
He pulled off his boots and set them by the fire to dry, padding toward the kitchen with Biggie behind making more tracks.
Daffer lowered himself to the floor and, padding barefoot across the floor, closed and bolted the door.
Vaguely aware that de Bono was padding after him, and completely indifferent to the fact, he headed on.
Farder Coram and Lyra exchanged a look of alarm and wonderment, but only for a second, and then Farder Coram was hobbling out on his sticks as fast as he could manage, with his daemon padding ahead of him.
Without seeming to, the Lizard was watching Gryf closely, padding by every so often in his stealthy, silent way, his close-set eyes heavy-lidded, the direction of his gaze impossible to determine.
Again I remarked his lameness and the soft padding sound of his footfall, and standing up in my place, I saw his feet as he went out.
Only the Lycanthrope looked uneasy, padding silently along, ears cocked forward, claws extended.
It also had a hardwood floor, but instead of mirrors its walls were lined with heavy bags, speed bags, uppercut bags, stretching and weight machines, thick vertical wooden boards with padding at their ends makiwara, Sternway called them and rows of shelves for focus mitts and a bewildering variety of other pads.
The soft padding of unseen feet, the rustling of leaves and grasses to the passage of fierce beasts, the sheen of opalesque eyes flaming through the dark, the million sounds which proclaimed the teeming life that one might hear and scent, though seldom see, constituted the appeal of the nocturnal jungle to Tarzan.
As she faced the third, the program phased into the next level, providing her with protective padding, and giving both she and the creature a set of wicked short swords.
But the money budgeted toward those repairs seemed to be many times what went out in salaries and materials, so it was obvious that the local councilors were padding their pocketbooks the whole time.
The shuttle lurched as Grayrose began the launch run, and in spite of himself Paris dug his fingers into the padding of his couch.
I watched Rolly in the side mirror as he put on his padding for work: first the big chest piece, then the tubes on his arms and legs, gradually growing more substantial and less recognizable in front of my eyes.
Outside, the neighborhood was quiet, a few sprinklers going, a man in his robe padding out down the driveway to pick up his paper, and I found myself remembering what Rolly had said earlier about the perfect moment.