pad

nl-noun

pad n (plural paden, diminutive paadje n)

paden (plural)
paadje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pad

Berbice Creole Dutch: pata

Jersey Dutch: pât, pāt

Negerhollands: pad, pat

From Middle Dutch pat, from Old Dutch path, from Proto-West Germanic *paþ, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). Cognate with English path, West Frisian paad and German Pfad.


pad

toad (an amphibian of the order Anura similar to a frog with shorter legs and more ragged skin)

pad f (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

padden (plural)
padje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: padda

From Middle Dutch padde, pedde, from Old Dutch *padda, from Proto-West Germanic *paddā, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”).
Cognates
Cognate with Old English padde (compare English paddock), Old Norse padda (Swedish padda, Danish/Norwegian padde).


pad

(cycling) the slot in the frame that accepts the axle of the wheel; dropout

pad c (plural padden, diminutive padje n)


pad

A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.

A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.

The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.

Collie ignored him. Reached the finger further. Closer. And closer yet, until — […] Collie yanked his hand back and peered at it like a kid with an interesting new scrape. Then he turned to Steve and held it out. A bead of blood, small and dark and perfect, was forming on the pad of his index finger.

Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.

A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

In this study, when the views of the mothers on the tiring/straining situations during their daughters’ adolescence are examined, it is determined that the mothers mostly have difficulties in using the pads of their daughters, cleaning the hairs in the armpit and genital area, and bathing their daughters.

2024 July 2, Rukiye Arslan, Derya Yanık, Raziye Pekşen Akça, “Investigation of Menstrual Hygiene and Self-Care Skills of Adolescent Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Mother Views”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:

A menstrual pad; a mass of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.

(US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

(cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects the player from damage when hit by the ball.

A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.

A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.

A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.

An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end; a "trip cord".

The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.

(music) A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.

(colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.

(cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.

It is a general practice to pad down a condenser mike with as much as a 20-30 dB pad.

1967, Db: The Sound Engineering Magazine - Volumes 1-2:

(electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.

let us at least trust that the hair-pins will do their duty, and maintain the respectability of passion by holding the pads and puffs and frizettes in their proper places.

1875, William Clark Russell, Jilted – Or My Uncle's Scheme:

(nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

肉墊 /肉垫

възглавничка на животинска лапа

levy

panel or strip of material sensitive to pressure or touch

jatkojohto

Verlängerungsschonur (mit mehreren Steckdosen)

Verlängerungsschnur (mit mehreren Steckdosen)

matto

music: effect produced by sustained lower reed notes

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", probably from Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

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probably


pad

(transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.

The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.

pad one's expenses

"Obama pads delegate lead […] with win in key western state."

(transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

to pad cloth

[…] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]

(transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

(transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

en-verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

pads (present singular third-person)
padding (participle present)
padded (participle past)
padded (past)

unk

probably


pad

From Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-West Germanic *paddā, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle. Doublet of pode


pad

And when the map shows that the creek will no longer take him where he wants to go, then he looks for an animal pad and follows it, getting down on his belly and wriggling under thorny bush when he has to.

1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 36

(British dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, / An abbot on an ambling pad, / Sometimes a curly shepherd lad, / Or long-hair'd page, in crimson clad, / Goes by to Camelot.

1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, part the second, page 11:

A Pad came pacing down the way : / The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue , / Upon the passing trav'ler sprung

1720, John Gay, “Fables”, in Poems on Several Occasions:

These free-born sounds proceeded from four pads / In ambush laid, who had perceived him loiter / Behind his carriage; and, like handy lads, / Had seized the lucky hour to reconnoitre

1819–1824, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London, (please specify |canto=I to XVII):

(British, obsolete) A robber who infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.

(British, obsolete) A tramp or itinerant musician.

From Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat (“path”). Doublet of path.


pad

(British, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.

Perhaps


pad

Padding the streets for half a crown.

1727, William Somervile, The Fortune Hunter:

(transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).

Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXII:

(intransitive) To wear a path by walking.

Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out...

1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.

Their chief Argument is, That they never saw any Witches, therefore there are none. Just as if you or I should say, We never met with any Robbers on the Road, therefore there never was any Padding there.

1689, Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions:

(intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.

Probably partly from Middle Low German pat, partly imitative. Some senses possibly influenced by pad (“soft part of an animal's foot”, noun).

Probably


pad

I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.

Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.

Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.


pad

The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.


pad

(education) desk (of students in school, traditionally built together with the seats)

(law) dock (of the defendant, in court), stand (of a witness, in court)

padok (plural)
pad (nominative singular)
padok (nominative plural)
padot (accusative singular)
padokat (accusative plural)
padnak (dative singular)
padoknak (dative plural)
paddal (instrumental singular)
padokkal (instrumental plural)
padért (causal-final singular)
padokért (causal-final plural)
paddá (singular translative)
padokká (plural translative)
padig (singular terminative)
padokig (plural terminative)
padként (essive-formal singular)
padokként (essive-formal plural)
padban (inessive singular)
padokban (inessive plural)
padon (singular superessive)
padokon (plural superessive)
padnál (adessive singular)
padoknál (adessive plural)
padba (illative singular)
padokba (illative plural)
padra (singular sublative)
padokra (plural sublative)
padhoz (allative singular)
padokhoz (allative plural)
padból (elative singular)
padokból (elative plural)
padról (delative singular)
padokról (delative plural)
padtól (ablative singular)
padoktól (ablative plural)
padé (singular)
padoké (plural)
padéi (singular)
padokéi (plural)
padom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
padjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
padod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
padjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
padja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
padjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
padunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
padjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
padotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
padjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
padjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
padjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pod.


pad

pād (canonical feminine)
pād (nominative singular)
pāda (nominative plural)
pāde (nominative plural)
pāde (accusative singular)
pāda (accusative plural)
pāde (accusative plural)
pāde (genitive singular)
pāda (genitive plural)
pāde (dative singular)
pādum (dative plural)

Middle English: *pod (attested in pod ware)

English: pod

From Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō.


pad

(sports) a quick fall with the whole body to the ground


pad

pad (nominative singular)
pady (nominative plural)
padu (genitive singular)
padów (genitive plural)
padowi (dative singular)
padom (dative plural)
pad (accusative singular)
pady (accusative plural)
padem (instrumental singular)
padami (instrumental plural)
padzie (locative singular)
padach (locative plural)
padzie (singular vocative)
pady (plural vocative)


pad

pȃd (canonical masculine)
па̑д (Cyrillic)
pȃd (nominative singular)
pádovi (nominative plural)
pada (genitive singular)
padova (genitive plural)
padu (dative singular)
padovima (dative plural)
pad (accusative singular)
padove (accusative plural)
pade (singular vocative)
padovi (plural vocative)
padu (locative singular)
padovima (locative plural)
padom (instrumental singular)
padovima (instrumental plural)


pad

pads (nominative plural)
pad (nominative singular)
pads (nominative plural)
pada (genitive singular)
padas (genitive plural)
pade (dative singular)
pades (dative plural)
padi (accusative singular)
padis (accusative plural)
o pad! (singular vocative)
o pads! (plural vocative)
padu (predicative singular)
padus (plural predicative)