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pad

//pæd//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for pad

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
pads

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
pad
past (v2)
padded
past participle (v3)
padded
present participle
padding
3rd person singular
pads

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.

  2. 2.A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

  3. 3.A soft, or small, cushion.

  4. 4.A soft area on the ends of a digit:

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

    • The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.
    • "Obama pads delegate lead […] with win in key western state."
  2. 2.To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

  3. 3.To furnish with a pad or padding.

  4. 4.To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4395

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

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Synonyms

Etymology

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on".

Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology.

For sense "ends of a digit", cf.

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