What does padding mean?

Definitions for padding
ˈpæd ɪŋpad·ding

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. padding, cushioningnoun

    artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort

Wiktionary

  1. paddingnoun

    Soft filling material used in cushions etc.

  2. paddingnoun

    Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

  3. paddingnoun

    Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.

ChatGPT

  1. padding

    Padding refers to the addition of extra content, usually blank, to a certain piece of information or data to achieve a desired size, format or appearance. It is commonly used in computing and cryptography to meet specific technical requirements like aligning data in memory blocks, ensuring security of transmitted data, or designing website layout. This added content, which does not carry any meaningful information, is called padding.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Padding

    of Pad

  2. Paddingnoun

    the act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing

  3. Paddingnoun

    the material with which anything is padded

  4. Paddingnoun

    material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc

  5. Paddingnoun

    the uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant

Wikidata

  1. Padding

    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.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of padding in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of padding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of padding in a Sentence

  1. Ewan McGregor:

    You see my naked body, although I wear some padding for Ray to make him heavier, this scene had to justify that padding. It wouldn’t make sense for me to wear padding and not be fat when I got out of the bath. So when I got out of the bath, I was properly overweight for me.

  2. President Biden:

    We understand Putin's war against the people of Ukraine is causing prices to rise. We get that. That's self-evident. But it's no excuse to exercise excessive price increases or padding profits or any kind of effort to exploit this situation or American consumers, russia's aggression is costing us all, and it's no time for profiteering or price gouging.

  3. Senator Harris:

    >( CNN) In Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Tulsi Gabbard decided to drop her opposition research book right on Kamala Harris. . duval-3 { width :100 % ; position : relative ; border : 1px solid # 979797 ; border-left : none ; border-right : none ; padding : 20px 0 ; box-sizing : border-box ; - webkit-box-sizing : border-box ; - moz-box-sizing : border-box ; margin : auto ; max-width : 660px ; }. duval-3 a { color : # 1a1a1a ; text-decoration : none ; font-size : 0 ; }. duval-3 a : hover { color : #d 9d9d9 ; text-decoration : underline ; - moz-text-decoration-color : #d 9d9d9 ; text-decoration-color : #d 9d9d9 ; }. duval-3 > a > * { vertical-align : top ; display : inline-block ; }. duval-3 > a > div { display : inline-block ; font-size :1.0666667 rem ; width : 80 % ; padding-top : 0px ; padding-left : 2 % ; }. duval-3 > a > img { width : 18 % ; height : auto ; } @media screen and( max-width :640 px) {. duval-3 > a > * { display : block ; margin : auto ; }. duval-3 > a > div { width : 100 % ; }. duval-3 > a > img { width : 50 % ; } } THE POINT -- NOW ON YOUTUBE ! In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe ! Amid a broader conversation about criminal justice reform between the California senator and former Vice President Joe Biden, the moderators turned to the Hawaii congresswoman. And she unloaded : but I'm deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but Senator Harris put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when Senator Harris was asked if Senator Harris ever smoked marijuana.

  4. Tom Roseen:

    They were selective, however, padding the coffers of Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 with plus-$2.6 billion and iShares Core S&P 500 ETF with plus-$1.7 billion, while being net redeemers of SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust with $1.8 billion of cash withdrawals.

  5. Martin Ryan:

    A standard tree conforms to the seat of the rider, and then for it to accommodate to the horse, it has padding attached to the underside, with the Bua tree, it's in two -- it's a tree for the rider, and a tree for the horse. And it's joined at the front, which means it gives it a natural suspension between the two.

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