| 单词 | padding |
| 释义 | padding (once / 6080 pages) n A cushioning or protective material is padding. When you're moving into a new apartment, you might want to wrap your dishes in padding to keep them from being damaged. Padding has many different uses, from the padding in a padded mailing envelope to the padding in a sofa cushion that gives you a soft place to sit. There's also padding inside protective sports gear and built into yoga mats. Sometimes padding is simply used to make something seem bigger, and from this meaning comes the sense of padding meaning "unnecessary extra material," especially superfluous words in a speech or a book. WORD FAMILYpadding: paddings+/pad: padded, padding, pads USAGE EXAMPLESGoalies wear full padding, but the other players wear sweatpants, jerseys and helmets with face masks. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Now, he tries to leave a few days of padding. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) But prosecutors appear to be padding their luck with the misdemeanor counts. Seattle Times(Dec 12, 2016) n artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort Syn|Hypo|Hyper cushioning cushion a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc. falsiepadding that is worn inside a brassiere pada flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort stuffingpadding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture air cushion, inflatable cushiona cushion usually made of rubber or plastic that can be inflated batten, battingstuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber carpet pad, rug pad, underlay, underlaymenta pad placed under a carpet cleaning pada pad used as a cleaning implement gaddia cushion on a throne for a prince in India hassocka cushion for kneeling on (as when praying in church) head restraint, headresta cushion attached to the top of the back of an automobile's seat to prevent whiplash mata small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it mattressa large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed mattress pada protective pad over a mattress to protect it panela soft pad placed under a saddle pillowa cushion to support the head of a sleeping person pincushiona small stiff cushion into which pins are stuck ready for use plastrona large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest potholderan insulated pad for holding hot pots powderpuff, puffa soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin rata pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure Kotex, sanitary napkin, sanitary towela disposable absorbent pad (trade name Kotex); worn to absorb menstrual flow seat cushiona cushion that makes a seat more comfortable hot pad, table mata pad for use under a hot dish to protect a table throw pillowa small cushion that is used for decorative purposes skin patch, transdermal patcha medicated adhesive pad placed on the skin for absorption of a time released dose of medication into the bloodstream artefact, artifact a man-made object taken as a whole |
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