Padding

What do we mean by padding?

The act of stuffing, filling, or lining. noun

A soft material used to make pads or a pad. noun

Something added, especially extraneously or fraudulently. noun

The act of stuffing so as to make a pad. noun

The cotton, hair, straw, or other material used in stuffing anything, as a bolster, saddle, or garment; the stuffing used to keep in shape any part of a garment according to the fashion which requires it to be more in relief or drawn tighter than the natural forms allow. ; ; noun

In calico-printing, the process of imbuing the fabric all over with a mordant which is dried. noun

Any unnecessary matter inserted in a column, article, book, etc., merely to bring it up to a certain size; vamp; hence, written or printed matter of no real value or utility; whatever has merely the effect of increasing the size of any thing without adding to its interest or value. noun

The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing. noun

The material with which anything is padded. noun

Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. noun

The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant. noun

Present participle of pad. verb

Soft filling material used in cushions etc. noun

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

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

To stuff.

To furnish with a pad or padding.

To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

Words that are spelled similarly to padding:
padding, pudding, madding, adding, paddling, wadding, gadding, vadding, jadding, podding.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word padding:
turnbuckle, padded, gloves, rsa, foam, byte, cushion, stitches, cryptography, hash, pads, cuff, appended, oracle, glove, knuckles, decoding, encryption, cipher, strap, saddle, div, bits, asymmetric, waist, insulation, attacker, shoulders, helmet, grab, encoding, width, fabric, fingers, packet, heel, comfort, alignment, pad, message, leather, careful, schemes, insignia, shorts, stripe, chest, shoulder, col, protect, scheme, messages, protective, inserted, distribute, underneath, comfortable, rubber, worn, canvas, scope, trim, binary, bit, plastic, block, inch, cloth, zero, mask, vulnerable, random, none, fate, shoes, file, soft, specified, armor, algorithm, secure, thin, boxing, protocol, removal, shots, fit, panels, reduce, length, clothing, border, bars, stability, applied, beneath, injuries, add, enable, files.

Words that rhyme with padding:
cladding, madding, gadding, gladding, padang, jadding, hading, add ing, brad hung, comrade ding, dad hung, had hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe padding:
soft, extra, protective, thick, little, adequate, additional, more, mere, much, heavy, appropriate, proper, special, sufficient, zero, fat, careful, thin, internal, less, unnecessary, suitable, excessive, right, necessary, top, vertical, quilted, ample, enough, external, left, comfortable, horizontal, light, interior, bottom, verbal, minimal, obvious, inadequate, usual, red, plastic, generous, firm, subcutaneous, slight, sponge, inner, bulky, underlying, thicker, insufficient, pure, blank, excess, excellent, extensive, adhesive, conventional, resilient, artificial, synthetic, stealthy, superfluous, poetical, wool, irrelevant, judicious, accommodative, rhetorical, dorsal, inch, sterile, deliberate, meaningless.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective padding:
width, background, machine, characters, feet, comparison, system, assaults.

Consonant match to padding:
pudding, padang, podding, pudong.

Words that sound like padding:
padding, pudding, patting, podding, padden, padam, putting, pouting, paddling, petting, potting, pitting, patin, pudong, pattin, padang, paid in, paddle, bidding, bedding, batting, budding, biding, beading, boding, bading, patton, patten, paton, paten, paden, payden, peden, podem, padda, patan, passing, pounding, speeding, paying, pleading, pending, paddy, panting, putin, peeing, peddling, pedaling, prodding, parading, plodding, puddings, patching, pawing, pooing, pattering, poing, piddling, ponding, potin, put in, pathing, pashing, spading, powdering, paulding, priding, padow, padon, badam, pieing, spatting, padan, platting, purdin, poinding, paydown, piing, pay down, padis, spudding, beating, biting, betting, boating, baiting, bating, bidden, booting, bitting, banding, birding, bad thing, battin, batin, bodin, bedim, badin, bed in, bid in.