padding
/ˈpædɪŋ/ · pad·ding
verb
- To stuff. She padded the pillow with feathers.
- To furnish with a pad or padding. The furniture was padded with foam for comfort.
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler. The company was accused of padding their profits with fake sales.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.). The hikers padded along the mountain trail.
- To travel on foot. The children padded through the forest, looking for wildflowers.
- To wear a path by walking. The path was padded by the constant flow of foot traffic.
noun
- Soft filling material used in cushions etc. The pillow was filled with soft padding for comfort.
- Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length. The database was padded with extra spaces to ensure compatibility.
- Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length. The email was padded with unnecessary paragraphs to avoid spam filters.
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Did you know? The term 'padding' has been used in various contexts, including sports, where it refers to the act of adding extra players to a team to gain an advantage, and in finance, where it refers to the practice of inflating profits by adding fake sales or revenue.