1pad1 (pæd
)
Definitions
noun
- a thick piece of soft material used to make something comfortable, give it shape, or protect it
- a guard made of flexible resilient material worn in various sports to protect parts of the body
stamp pad ink pad a block of firm absorbent material soaked with ink for transferring to a rubber stampnotepad writing pad a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge- a flat piece of stiff material used to back a piece of blotting paper
- the fleshy cushion-like underpart of the foot of a cat, dog, etc
- any of the parts constituting such a structure
- any of various level surfaces or flat-topped structures, such as a launch pad
- entomology a nontechnical name for pulvillus
- the large flat floating leaf of the water lily
- electronics a resistive attenuator network inserted in the path of a signal to reduce amplitude or to match one circuit to another
- slang a person's residence
- slang a bed or bedroom
verb
Word forms: pads, padding, padded
(tr) - to line, stuff, or fill out with soft material, esp in order to protect or give shape to
- (often foll by out) to inflate with irrelevant or false information ⇒
to pad out a story
Word Origin
C16: origin uncertain; compare Low German pad sole of the foot2pad2 (pæd)
Definitions
verb
Word forms: pads, padding, padded
- (intr; often foll by along, up, etc) to walk with a soft or muffled tread
- intr, often foll by around to travel (a route) on foot, esp at a slow pace; tramp ⇒
to pad around the country
noun
- a dull soft sound, esp of footsteps
- archaic short for footpad
- archaic or dialect a slow-paced horse; nag
- Australian a path or track ⇒
a cattle pad
Word Origin
C16: perhaps from Middle Dutch paden, from padpathTranslations
- British English:
pad
A pad is a thick flat piece of a material such as cloth or foam rubber....a pad of cotton-wool.pæd NOUN ...a pad of cotton-wool.
- Spanish:
almohadilla
nf
- French:
tampon
nm
- German:
Polster
nnt Polster
- Chinese: 垫 n
- Arabic: وِسَادَةٌ رَقِيقَةٌ n
- Portuguese: coxim nm
- Russian: прокладка nf
- Croatian: jastuk nm
- Czech: podložka nf
- Danish: pude nutr
- Dutch: kussen nnt
- Finnish: pehmuste n
- Greek: προστατευτικό μαξιλαράκι nnt
- Italian: cuscinetto nm
- Japanese: パッド n
- Korean: 패드 n
- Norwegian: polstring nm
- Polish: podkładka nf
- Brazilian Portuguese: coxim nm
- European Spanish:
almohadilla
nf
- Swedish: dyna nutr
- Thai: เบาะรอง n
- Turkish: ped n
- Vietnamese: miếng đệm lót n
Usage examples
Newman stared at the sketch he had drawn of a castle on the pad from his memory of the background to that hideous film.
, Cover Story (1986)Singh will play next week in the $4.8-million Chrysler Championship in Tampa and could further pad his lead with a good finish.
Globe and Mail (2003)Exclusive pad at the top of London's Metropolitan Hotel.
Sun, News of the World (2001)Heel, the outer side of the foot, toe pad number five, big toe pad.
, Holistic Reflexology (1989)