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Definition of 'Pad'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) pad
a cushionlike mass of soft material used for comfort, protection, or stuffing.

2.  pad
a soft, stuffed cushion used as a saddle.

3.  pad
a number of sheets of paper glued together at one edge to form a tablet.

4.  pad
a soft, ink-soaked block of absorbent material for inking a rubber stamp.

5.  pad
the fleshy mass of tissue on the underside of each finger and toe.

6.  pad
any of the cushionlike parts on the feet of vertebrates.

7.  pad
the enlarged structure at the tip of the legs in certain insects; pulvillus.

8.  pad
Slang.

9.  pad
one's living quarters.

10.  pad
one's bed.

11. (v.t.) pad
to furnish or stuff with a pad or padding.

12.  pad
to expand or add to unnecessarily or dishonestly:
to pad a book; to pad an expense account.

13. (n.) pad
a dull, muffled sound, as of footsteps on the ground.

14.  pad
a slow-paced road horse.

15.  pad
Brit. Dial. a path.

16. (v.i.) pad
to travel on foot; walk.

17.  pad
to walk so that one's footsteps make a dull, muffled sound.

18. (v.t.) pad
to travel along on foot.

19.  pad
to beat down by treading.

Etymology: (1545–55; orig. argot, < MD or LG padpath)

Definition of 'Pad'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) pad, pad of paper, tablet
a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

2. (noun) pad
the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)

3. (noun) pad, inkpad, inking pad, stamp pad
a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp

4. (noun) pad
a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort

5. (noun) launching pad, launchpad, launch pad, launch area, pad
a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

6. (noun) diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad
temporary living quarters

7. (verb) pad
the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger

8. (verb) embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
add details to

9. (verb) slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp
walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
"Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"

10. (verb) pad, fill out
line or stuff with soft material
"pad a bra"

11. (verb) pad, bolster
add padding to
"pad the seat of the chair"

Definition of 'Pad'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) pad
a number of pieces of paper attached at the top, for writing on
a pad of notepaper

2. pad
a piece of thick material used for protection, comfort, etc.
a mattress pad; knee/shin pads

Definition of 'Pad'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Pad
a footpath; a road

2. (noun) Pad
an easy-paced horse; a padnag

3. (noun) Pad
a robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad

4. (noun) Pad
the act of robbing on the highway

5. (noun) Pad
a soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing

6. (noun) Pad
a kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper

7. (noun) Pad
a cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame

8. (noun) Pad
a stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising

9. (noun) Pad
a cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals

10. (noun) Pad
a floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant

11. (noun) Pad
a soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc

12. (noun) Pad
a piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck

13. (noun) Pad
a measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles

14. (verb) Pad
to travel upon foot; to tread

15. (verb) Pad
to travel heavily or slowly

16. (verb) Pad
to rob on foot

17. (verb) Pad
to wear a path by walking

18. (verb) Pad
to stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding

19. (verb) Pad
to imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth

Translation of 'Pad'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a soft, cushion-like object made of or filled with a soft material, used to prevent damage by knocking, rubbing etc She knelt on a pad to clean the floor.
Afrikaans: kussinkie	Arabic: وِسادَه صغيرَه	Bulgarian: подложка
Brazilian: almofada	Czech: polštářek	German: das Polster
Danish: pude	Greek: μαξιλαράκι	Spanish: almohadilla
Estonian: polster, säärekaitse	Farsi: بالشتک	Finnish: pehmuste
French: coussinet	Hebrew: רְפִידָה	Hindi: कागज की गड्डी
Croatian: jastuk,štitnik	Hungarian: párna	Indonesian: bantalan
Icelandic: púði	Italian: cuscinetto	Japanese: 当て物
Korean: 패드	Lithuanian: pamušas	Latvian: polsteris
Malay: pad	Dutch: kussen	Norwegian: pute, underlag
Polish: podkładka	Persian: بالشتک	Pashto: كونستر ګى، ناليګۍ، ناليچه
Portuguese: almofada	Romanian: pernuţă	Russian: подушечка;прокладка
Slovak: vankúšik	Slovenian: blazina	Serbian: podmetač
Swedish: dyna, kudde, skydd	Thai: เบาะ	Turkish: tampon, ufak yastık
Taiwanese: 襯墊	Ukrainian: м'яка прокладка; подушечк	Urdu: پيڈ، گدي
Vietnamese: miếng đệm	Chinese: 衬垫
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