单词 | padded |
释义 | paddedadj.1 rare. Trodden down, hardened by repeated treading.In quot. 1583 figurative: hardened or rendered unfeeling, as though by being trodden upon. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted hard hearteOE steelena1000 hardOE hard-heartedc1225 stony?c1230 yhert1340 dure1412 hardedc1425 induratec1425 stonishc1450 hardenedc1480 steely1508 flinty1536 endured1540 stiff-stomached1540 heartless1556 indured1558 flint-hearted1560 iron1561 marble1565 stone-hearted?1569 stony-hearted1569 iron-hearted1570 steel-hearted1571 rocky?1578 brawned1582 flinted1582 padded1583 obdure?1590 brawny1596 flintful1596 flint-heart1596 steeled1600 cauterized1603 indurated1604 flinty-hearted1629 ahenean1630 dedolent1633 brawny-hearteda1639 hard-grained1643 callous1647 upsitten1682 seared1684 petrified1720 calloused1746 coreless1813 pebble-hearted1816 hard-shelled1848 hard-plucked1857 steel trap1921 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [adjective] > beaten or well-trodden berrieda1382 well-beaten?c1425 forbeatc1430 well-trodden?1566 traded?1567 trodden1576 well-traded1576 tracked1589 pathed1597 trite1601 beaten1748 paddered1789 well-travelled1797 padded1821 over-beaten1873 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iv. 189 They..who with benummed soules, parched, padded, senslesse, and euery way most hardened hearts..lie and sleepe on the one side idle. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 199 Only a hedgerow track, or padded balk. 1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 386 There wus nae paddit track bye Barskeoch, an he ken't they could easily track him in the clean snaw. a1963 W. H. Ogilvie in T. I. Moore From Ballads to Brennan (1965) 132 He hid in the woods like a beast forlorn, With a padded path to his lair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). paddedadj.2 1. a. Filled out with or shaped by padding; fitted or surrounded with padding for purposes of protection, comfort, etc.; rounded, plump. Of a person: wearing, or given to wearing, clothes fitted with padding in order to alter the figure. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [adjective] > lining > lined > padded or stuffed stuffed1467 wadded1595 padded1717 1717 E. Ward Coll. Historical & State Poems 13 No padded Stays or Bolsters hide The Weakness of her yielding Side. 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages (1801) II. 139 The Neck Collar is a padded collar made to fit and sit easy round the horse's neck. 1799 tr. J. H. Meister Lett. Resid. Eng. 224 Some ladies make use of artificial means to procure this kind of deformity of shape. This gives rise to pads and padded ladies, of which you have lately [i.e. in 1791] read so many aukward pleasantries. 1823 J. G. Lockhart Reginald Dalton I. ii. vi. 313 A padded foot-stool sustained in advance his gouty left leg. 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. vi. 42 He had once ventured to ask her whether she really liked ‘that old padded dandy’. 1897 H. G. Wells Invisible Man xxi I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. 1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Aug. 207/1 When I got back to our own padded armor and its starched borders I realized..how comfortable were those Herland clothes. 1953 R. Chandler Long Good-bye xxiv. 154 I stretched out on a padded aluminium chaise. 1993 Rolling Stone 8 July 26/3 Brett Anderson wiggled his amply padded arse with impressive dexterity. b. figurative. Protected, secluded, insulated from realities. ΚΠ 1898 Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 1/3 The padded, blinkered life of her spinster sister. 1959 T. S. Eliot Elder Statesman i. 30 Your loneliness—so cosy, warm and padded: You're not isolated—merely insulated. 2. Textiles. Of a fabric: impregnated with a dye, etc., by padding (pad v.2 3). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [adjective] > treated with mordant padded1839 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [adjective] > treated in specific way padded1839 mercerized1852 clayed1883 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 655 This mode of drying the padded calicoes. 1920 Discovery Mar. 88/1 The padded goods are well squeezed through nipping-rollers, and then dried and ‘backed’. 1961 S. R. Cockett & K. A. Hilton Dyeing of Cellulosic Fibres xi. 361 Where vat dyes are concerned, development of the padded goods with alkaline reducing agent may be carried out discontinuously on jigs. 1972 D. Hildebrand in K. Venkataraman Chem. Synthetic Dyes VI. iii. 424 If the substantivity of the dye is insufficient, the dye will migrate when the padded goods are dried under inhomogeneous drying conditions. 3. figurative. Filled out with additional (usually superfluous or inferior) material. Of a claim for payment, reimbursement, etc.: inflated or extended with fraudulent or invented items. ΚΠ 1907 Billboard 25 Feb. 8/2 The names of elected members, as published weekly in The Billboard is a bona-fide list and NOT a ‘padded’ one? 1938 Life 7 Feb. 46 (caption) With enormously padded payrolls, Jersey City's government last year cost its citizens over four times as much..as those of Kansas City or New Orleans. 1981 C. Bly Lett. from Country xxii. 122 The twentieth-century economic form of occult restitution—the padded expense account, the shaved deposit slip. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Sept. 56/3 Reading some of the pages of Boime's book I thought I would suffocate under the accumulated weight of his padded prose. Compounds padded bra n. a bra fitted with pads to enhance the apparent size or shape of one's bust. ΚΠ 1946 Life 14 Oct. 35 ‘Falsies’, padded rubber or cloth brassières worn to augment movie actresses' bosoms.] 1970 G. Scott-Heron Vulture 200 This is what black women are trying to be when they get nose jobs, faces lifted, padded bras, and wigs? 1992 Looks July 4/2 Beauty is going over the top this summer, with false lashes, padded bras and plucked brows being flaunted all over the shop. padded room n. a room in a psychiatric hospital, etc., with padding on the walls, where a violent or uncontrollable patient may be kept to prevent self-injury (cf. padded cell n.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the mentally ill > room in rubber room1844 padded room1846 padded cell1862 pad1938 quiet room1938 1846 State Lincoln Asylum 39 Restraint Rooms, Seclusion Rooms, Padded Rooms [etc.]. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon III. i. 5 Who is so sane but he may need..the padded room some day? 1988 B. Cashman Private Charity & Public Purse (BNC) 59 Senile dementia and other forms of mental illness presented a problem and it was recommended that a new building accommodating six beds and one padded room should be provided. padded shoulder n. (usually in plural) the shoulder of a shirt, blouse, jacket, etc., supported by padding to give the appearance of breadth or squareness; a person's shoulder modified in shape with padding; also figurative. ΚΠ 1729 E. Ward Apollo's Maggot in his Cups Ded. Appearing to Beholders, Without false Calfs and padded Shoulders. 1889 Cent. Mag. Mar. 782/1 The padded shoulders of a female torso, clad in pink cambric. 1959 N. N. Holland First Mod. Comedies 39 ‘Dapperwit’ implies a comparison of clothes and wit, as though Dapperwit's pretensions to wit were a kind of padded shoulders to cover his actually feeble intelligence. 1990 T. Strong Sons of Heaven (BNC) 153 She was..an arch exponent of power dressing with padded shoulders to her grey suit. ΚΠ 1891 S. P. Sadtler Handbk. Industr. Org. Chem. ii. 61 Soaps made in this way retain all the glycerine..and belong to the class known as ‘filled’ or ‘padded’ soaps. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11583adj.21717 |
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