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▪ I. ˈpadding, vbl. n.1
[f. pad v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of pad v.1; robbery on the highway, etc.
1674Jackson's Recantation Title-p., That Wicked and Fatal Profession of Padding on the Road. 1820L. Hunt Indicator No. 13 (1822) I. 102 ‘He [Claude du Val] took’ says his biographer ‘the generous way of padding’.
b. Comb., as padding-crib, -ken (slang).
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 243/2 Others resort to the regular ‘padding-kens’, or houses of call for vagabonds.
▪ II. ˈpadding, vbl. n.2
[f. pad v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of pad v.2, in its various senses.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 222 In padding, where the whole surface of the calico is imbued with mordant, the drying apartment..should..afford a ready outlet to the..exhalations. 1874Helps Soc. Press. vii. (1875) 82 All padding is an abomination to me. 1890D. S. Margoliouth Place of Ecclus. 8 Padding is not disapproved by the Orientals as it is by us. 1954Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists LXX. 383/2 The polymer emulsion..is then suitably diluted for application to the fabric, and applied by padding and drying. 1964‘E. Lathen’ Accounting for Murder (1965) x. 94 It would take more than a little juggling of expense accounts to explain the situation... Somebody must have gone into a panic about some minor padding. 1973Times 31 July 1/8 Several delegations have submitted a variety of inflated expense statements ranging from high living to outright padding of the bills.
attrib.1839Ure Dict. Arts 915 Padding machine, in calico-printing, is the apparatus for imbuing a piece of cotton cloth uniformly with any mordant. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 641 A section of the padding flue used in mordanting. 1912J. Hübner Bleaching & Dyeing Veg. Fibrous Materials xvi. 371 The padding machine may be used for..impregnating with the aniline solution in the dyeing of Aniline Black. 1935Chem. Abstr. XXIX. 4179 Dyeing in concentrated dye bath... The mech. and operating details of padding mangles of various manuf. are described. 1963A. J. Hall Textile Sci. iv. 193 The textile material..is impregnated evenly with the dye liquor with the aid of a so-called padding mangle. 1973Materials & Technol. VI. vii. 461 The most popular type of padding machine has two or three rollers giving one or two immersions in the padding solution.
2. concr.
a. That of which a pad is made; material, such as cotton, felt, hair, used in stuffing or padding anything.
1828Lights & Shades II. 66 They put a padding in to make them sit on one side. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. iv. 138 The fabric produced is only used for drugget, padding, and other inferior purposes. 1874Burnand My Time iii. 28 Chairs, without leather or padding of any sort. 1875G. J. Whyte-Melville Riding Recoll. vi. (1879) 101 Formerly every saddle used to be made with padding about half an inch deep.
fig.1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxxv. 302 There is something imposing about such a man till you're used to it, and can see through it. Of course it's all padding.
b. Extraneous or unnecessary matter introduced into a literary article, book, speech, etc., to fill up space and bring it up to a certain size; whatever has the effect of merely increasing the size without enhancing the value of writing; in magazines, the articles of secondary interest (which would do equally well in any number), as distinguished from those of immediate importance and the continuous stories which ‘run’ in the publication.
In Painting, ‘figures or accessories not regarded as essential to a picture’ (Funk).
[1861Illustr. Lond. News 26 Jan. 80/1 ‘Padding’ signifies the lumping together of the contents of a monthly magazine, classing apart the serial stories.] 1869M. Collins Ivory Gate II. xvii. 235 To write..two or three articles of magazine ‘padding’ a month. 1877R. H. Hutton in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 482 It was he [Walter Bagehot] who invented the phrase ‘padding’, to denote the secondary kind of article..with which a judicious editor will fill up perhaps three-quarters of his review. 1896C. Plummer Bede I. p. xlvi, He amplifies the narrative with rhetorical matter which can only be called padding.
3. Electronics. The use of a padder; padding capacitor or padding condenser = padder n.2 3.
1935A. T. Witts Superheterodyne Receiver iv. 37 Condenser C3, the padding condenser, has a capacity that is large in comparison with the tuning condenser C2, with the result that at the lower settings of the latter the padding condenser has very little effect. 1936J. H. Reyner Testing Radio Sets (ed. 3) xiii. 190 The alternative method, that of padding and trimming, is usually adopted. Ibid. 191 We..have three variables, namely, the oscillator inductance, the parallel trimming condenser, and the series padding condenser, and three frequencies which are to be ‘spot on’. 1946C. A. Quarrington Mod. Pract. Radio & Television I. xviii. 140 The [condenser] vanes are shaped to give the necessary effect when working on the highest frequency band incorporated in the receiver, and the lower frequency band or bands are corrected by means of padding. Ibid. 141 The series condenser..is called the padding condenser and is usually..of the pre-set type..; the small parallel capacity..is called the trimming condenser, and is invariably of the pre-set type. 1962J. H. & P. J. Reyner Radio Communication ix. 371 The padding and trimming capacitances must..be altered for each wave range and are usually..changed over by the switching which alters the coils.
4. padding stitch = pad stitch.
1913M. E. Wilkinson Embroidery Stitches 123 Padding stitch, close Satin stitch worked over a raised or padded grounding. 1955E. A. Mansfield Clothing Construction xv. 323/2 To shorten the fold-line so that the collar will lie close to the neck,..put in two rows of small padding stitches along the fold line.
▪ III. ˈpadding, ppl. a.
[f. pad v.1 + -ing2.]
†1. That practises highway robbery. In quot. fig.
1672Eachard Hobbs's State Nat. 73 That Humane Nature in general is a shirking, rooking, pilfering, padding Nature.
2. That pads or paces on; that walks or runs with steady dull-sounding footfall.
1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 105 Mercy..saw, as she thought, something most like a Lyon, and it came a great padding pace after. 1888A. Rives Quick or Dead vi. (1889) 80 She..began to move up and down the room with the long, padding gait peculiar to her. 1891Atkinson Last of Giant Killers 158 The dread Goat..tramping round and round the Castle with padding, dull-sounding steps. |