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The correct spelling is padding.
How to pronounce padding
verb
IPA: /ˈpædɪŋ/
Say it like: Pad-din-g
The correct spelling is padding. To stuff. For example: "May 21, 2008, Austin American-Statesman"
Usage Examples
“May 21, 2008, Austin American-Statesman”
“to pad cloth”
“That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.”
Meanings
verb
- 1.To stuff.
- 2.To furnish with a pad or padding.
- 3.To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- 4.To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- 5.To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
noun
- 1.Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
- 2.Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
- 3.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.
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