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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
Caity Lotz

Meaning of "padding" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PADDING

padding  [ˈpædɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PADDING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Padding is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PADDING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Padding

Padding is thin cushioned material sometimes added to clothes. It is often done in an attempt to soften impacts on certain zones of the body or enhance appearance by 'improving' a physical feature, often a sexually significant one. In fashion, there is padding for: ▪ Breasts – sometimes called falsies ▪ The male crotch – usually called a codpiece. ▪ Height – usually in shoes and often called elevator shoes. ▪ Width of shoulders, called shoulder pads – in coats and other garments for men, and sometimes for women.

Definition of padding in the English dictionary

The first definition of padding in the dictionary is any soft material used to pad clothes, furniture, etc. Other definition of padding is superfluous material put into a speech or written work to pad it out; waffle. Padding is also inflated or false entries in a financial account, esp an expense account.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PADDING


according
əˈkɔːdɪŋ
adding
ˈædɪŋ
building
ˈbɪldɪŋ
cladding
ˈklædɪŋ
ending
ˈɛndɪŋ
finding
ˈfaɪndɪŋ
gladding
ˈɡlædɪŋ
holding
ˈhəʊldɪŋ
including
ɪnˈkluːdɪŋ
leading
ˈliːdɪŋ
loading
ˈləʊdɪŋ
madding
ˈmædɪŋ
outstanding
ˌaʊtˈstændɪŋ
pending
ˈpɛndɪŋ
providing
prəˈvaɪdɪŋ
reading
ˈriːdɪŋ
recording
rɪˈkɔːdɪŋ
regarding
rɪˈɡɑːdɪŋ
riding
ˈraɪdɪŋ
trading
ˈtrædɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PADDING

padded
padded bra
padded cell
padded shoulders
padder
paddies
paddle
paddle boat
paddle one´s own canoe
paddle steamer
paddle wheel
paddle worm
paddleball
paddleboard
paddlefish
paddler
paddling pool
paddock
paddock-basher
paddy

WORDS THAT END LIKE PADDING

bedding
bidding
bread pudding
budding
competitive bidding
double wedding
embedding
forbidding
kidding
modding
nodding
pudding
Redding
shedding
shredding
sledding
sodding
spending
wedding
white wedding
Yorkshire pudding

Synonyms and antonyms of padding in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PADDING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «padding» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of padding

Translation of «padding» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PADDING

Find out the translation of padding to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of padding from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «padding» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 填充物
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

relleno
570 millions of speakers

English

padding
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गद्दी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحشو
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

обивка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enchimento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্যাডিং
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rembourrage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Padding
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Polsterung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

詰め物
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

완충제
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Padding
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đệm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேட்டிங்கின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पॅडिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dolgu malzemesi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

imbottitura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyściółka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

оббивка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

padding
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

padding
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

padding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stoppning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

padding
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of padding

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PADDING»

The term «padding» is very widely used and occupies the 11.318 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PADDING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «padding» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «padding» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about padding

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8 QUOTES WITH «PADDING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word padding.
1
Valerie Azlynn
I like a man with some extra padding.
2
June Carter Cash
I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.
3
Cherry Jones
As an actor, whether you look good or you don't, it's still about what you look like: Whether you are heavy enough to play this part or thin enough to play that part. The fact of the matter is, you can add a little weight with some extra padding, but you can't shave it off.
4
Caity Lotz
On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
5
Caity Lotz
We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding!
6
Alex Shoumatoff
In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.
7
Joe Theismann
Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
8
Rick Wakeman
'Tales From Topographic Oceans' is like a woman's padded bra. The cover looks good, but when you peel off the padding, there's not a lot there.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PADDING»

Discover the use of padding in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to padding and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Orthopdedic Taping, Wrapping, Bracing, & Padding
Protective Padding LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. Describe the legal issues, manufacturing standards, and testing procedures of protective equipment and padding. 2. Discuss the different types of protective equipment and padding used to ...
Joel W Beam, 2011
2
CSS: The Missing Manual
padding-top. Works just like the padding property, but sets padding for top edge only. • Example: padding-top: 20px;. padding-right. Works just like the padding property, but sets padding for right edge only. • Example: padding-right: 20px; ...
David Sawyer McFarland, 2009
3
Security and Cryptography for Networks: 6th International ...
The padding oracle attack, as introduced by Vaudenay [11], is a side channel attack of this type. A padding oracle attack works against the CBC mode of operation of a block cipher. It exploits the fact that, in real implementations, data typically ...
Rafail Ostrovsky, Roberto de Prisco, Ivan Visconti, 2008
4
Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns
Problem You want to use padding on one or more ofthe sides of an element. Solution Use a selector to assign the padding property to an element. You can independently set padding-left, padding-right, padding-top, and padding-bottom.
Michael Bowers, Dionysios Synodinos, Victor Sumner, 2011
5
The Complete IS-IS Routing Protocol
IS-IS achieves that check by using a technique called padding. Using padding, the Hello message is artificially pumped up to the MTU size of the link, or 1492 bytes. Whether the update gets pumped up to just 1492 bytes or the full MTU size is ...
Hannes Gredler, Walter Goralski, 2005
6
Introducing Maya 2009
Figure 11.2 Images rendered without frame padding (left). Frame padding makes file sequences easier to organize (right). Figure 11.3 This wine bottle's transparency ren- ders with a gray alpha channel. The Frame Padding attribute and slider ...
Dariush Derakhshani, 2011
7
Write Great Code
In such systems as these, the programmer has to manually provide padding fields to align certain fields on a given boundary. Some assemblers, such as MASM and TASM, provide simple alignment facilities. You can specify the value 1, 2, or 4 ...
Randall Hyde, 2006
8
Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, ...
padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, padding-left Values: length measurement |percentage | inherit Default: 0 Applies to: all elements except table -row, table-row-group, table-header-group, table-footer-group, table-column, and  ...
Jennifer Niederst Robbins, 2012
9
Essential Clinical Procedures
Cotton (Webril) padding is typically used with plaster cast material and for additional padding over bony prominences, and synthetic padding is used with fiberglass. Generous padding of a splint is desirable because of the anticipated acute ...
Richard W. Dehn, David P. Asprey, 2013
10
Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide
The most distressing is the fact that Navigator 4.x won't draw a border around the padding area of a block-level element but instead inserts some space between the padding and the border. Speaking of Navigator 4.x, it is extremely dangerous  ...
Eric A. Meyer, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PADDING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term padding is used in the context of the following news items.
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Size 12 Models Being Padded to Look Larger: Why Not Use 18+ …
Padding is something that has been going on for a LONG time in the modeling/fashion industry but it's a topic that no one really talks too loud ... «PLUS Model Magazine, Jul 15»
2
Big corporations running away from Planned Parenthood at full speed
Either Planned Parenthood has been caught padding its donor list, or the ... Either Planned Parenthood has been caught padding its donor list, ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
3
Build the Healthy Green Home of Your Dreams
Most carpet padding is urethane, rubber, or a recycled content mix. Urethane is known to be a possible carcinogen as well as being potentially ... «Click Green, Jul 15»
4
Converse reinvents Chuck Taylor sneaker – its sole update in a …
... for shock absorption, foam padding inside at the ankle, non-slip padded tongues and perforated micro-suede liners along the interior sides. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
5
Irdai seeks to limit insurers' expenses
This is important as it prevent insurers from padding up costs in participating plans. Participating products are those in which the customer gets ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
6
How did Toshiba get away with padding profits for 6 years? (+video)
The pattern of fraudulent accounting at Toshiba stemmed from unrealistic earnings targets and a fear of upper level management. «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
7
Toshiba Bosses Accused of Padding Profits by $1.2 Billion
In one of the Japan's largest ever accounting scandals, investigators found that bosses at tech giant Toshiba had systematically betrayed the ... «TIME, Jul 15»
8
Priest-turned-politician accused of padding his résumé
George Hoehmann says on two different online résumé sites that he received a master's degree from the Mendoza School of Business at the ... «New York Post, Jul 15»
9
Warwick's Cavanagh qualifies for U.S. Women's Amateur
«The Providence Journal, Jul 15»
10
Malawi ex-veep Chilumpha and his 'padding' business
Apparently, former vice-president Cassim Chilumpha is a strong believer in the idea that there is strength in numbers. That is why, you could ... «Nyasa Times, Jul 15»

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