"padding" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈpædɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-padding.wav [US] Forms: paddings [plural]
Rhymes: -ædɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)
  1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (soft filling material): στοιβή (stoibḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), подплънка (podplǎnka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), vulling (Dutch), pehmuste (Finnish), pehmike (Finnish), rembourrage [masculine] (French), Füllung [feminine] (German), ריפוד [masculine] (Hebrew), imbottitura [feminine] (Italian), whakapuru (Maori), فودره (fodra) (Ottoman Turkish), acolchoamento [masculine] (Portuguese), stoppning [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-padding-en-noun-GWA1d7R0 Disambiguation of 'soft filling material': 78 6 2 7 2 5
  2. (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Computing Translations (extra characters such as spaces added to a record): täyte (Finnish), utfyllnad [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-padding-en-noun-T26M0AC~ Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'extra characters such as spaces added to a record': 1 77 13 5 2 2
  3. (military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cryptography, Military Translations (extraneous text added to a message): täyte (Finnish), utfyllnad [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-padding-en-noun-~XQwC~JR Topics: computing, cryptography, engineering, government, mathematics, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, sciences, war Disambiguation of 'extraneous text added to a message': 2 17 75 3 2 1
  4. Anything of little value used to fill up space. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-padding-en-noun-FrSaUYC4
  5. (obsolete) Robbing on a highway. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-padding-en-noun-DysAgZDi
  6. The process of mordanting a fabric. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-padding-en-noun-G~jM3MfG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: padding-ken, stat padding

Verb

IPA: /ˈpædɪŋ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-padding.wav [US]
Rhymes: -ædɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} padding
  1. present participle and gerund of pad Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: pad
    Sense id: en-padding-en-verb-bq8JAlcV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 28 18 4 5 4 39

Inflected forms

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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extraneous text added to a message",
      "word": "täyte"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "extraneous text added to a message",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "utfyllnad"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "padding"
  ],
  "word": "padding"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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