padding

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpædɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ædɪŋ
• Homophone: patting (General American)

Verb

padding

1. present participle and gerund of pad

Noun

padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)

1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
2. (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
3. (military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
4. Anything of little value used to fill up space.

   That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.

5. (obsolete) Robbing on a highway.
6. The process of mordanting a fabric.

Derived terms

• padding-ken
• stat padding

 

Translations

soft filling material

• Bulgarian: подплънка (bg) f (podplǎnka)
• Dutch: vulling (nl)
• Finnish: pehmuste (fi), pehmike (fi)
• French: rembourrage (fr) m
• German: Füllung (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: στοιβή f (stoibḗ)

• Hebrew: ריפוד (he) m
• Italian: imbottitura (it) f
• Maori: whakapuru
• Ottoman Turkish: فودره (fodra)
• Portuguese: acolchoamento m
• Swedish: stoppning (sv) c

extra characters such as spaces added to a record

• Finnish: täyte (fi)
• Swedish: utfyllnad (sv) c

extraneous text added to a message

• Finnish: täyte (fi)
• Swedish: utfyllnad (sv) c

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

paddíng

1. wall