单词 | padding word |
释义 | > as lemmaspadding word b. (In sense 1b.) Esp. in padding word. ΚΠ 1898 I. M. Anderton tr. D. Comparetti Trad. Poetry Finns ii. iii. 313 On this and other padding-words used in the byliny. 1938 R. W. Frederick et al. Directing Learning 303 From these the pupils will discover that they can get the sense of what they read if they urge their eyes rapidly over the little ‘padding words’. 1975 R. Gittings Young T. Hardy xv. 166 The long padding chapter when the chief characters, for no reason, decide to travel from London to Cornwall by boat. 1990 Amiga Computing Dec. 125/2 Note that the zero on the end of ‘FenderStrat’ is just a padding byte, not a terminating zero. 2004 W. Hicks Quite Literally Problem Words 3 Actual, actually are usually padding words with no function in a sentence. < as lemmas |
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