padding — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

2. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

3. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

4. Anything of little value used to fill up space.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.

   Mais exemplos (1)

   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.

5. The process of mordanting a fabric.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

6. A diaper.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

7. Robbing on a highway.

   Uso

   • contável
   • obsoleto
   • incontável

Substantivo

1. artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort

   Sinônimos

   cushioning

   Termos mais gerais

   artifactartefact