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padding

/ˈpædɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To stuff.
  2. To furnish with a pad or padding.
  3. To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
  4. To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
  5. To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
  6. To travel along (a road, path etc.).
  7. To travel on foot.
  8. To wear a path by walking.
  9. To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
  10. To practise highway robbery.
  11. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  12. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  13. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
  14. Anything of little value used to fill up space.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data