Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈpædɪŋ/
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ˈpædɪŋ
Noun
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
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- Uncountable
Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
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Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
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Anything of little value used to fill up space.
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That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
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But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers.
The process of mordanting a fabric.
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A diaper.
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Robbing on a highway.
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- Obsolete
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Noun
artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
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