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padding

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. 1.To stuff.
  2. 2.To furnish with a pad or padding.
  3. 3.To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
  4. 4.To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
  5. 5.To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

noun

  1. 1.Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  2. 2.Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  3. 3.Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
  4. 4.Anything of little value used to fill up space.

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