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n. The act of stuffing, filling, or lining.

n. A soft material used to make pads or a pad.

n. Something added, especially extraneously or fraudulently: put some padding in the resumé.

v. Present participle of pad.

n. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.

n. Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

n. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

n. The material with which anything is padded.

n. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

n. The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

n. The act of stuffing so as to make a pad.

n. The cotton, hair, straw, or other material used in stuffing anything, as a bolster, saddle, or garment; the stuffing used to keep in shape any part of a garment according to the fashion which requires it to be more in relief or drawn tighter than the natural forms allow. ; ;

n. In calico-printing, the process of imbuing the fabric all over with a mordant which is dried.

n. Any unnecessary matter inserted in a column, article, book, etc., merely to bring it up to a certain size; vamp; hence, written or printed matter of no real value or utility; whatever has merely the effect of increasing the size of any thing without adding to its interest or value.

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

"As the day of reckoning approached on a slow wave of inevitability - the new cold snap on the air in the mornings, the crisp red and grey and blue and white uniforms in the shop windows, the darkening evenings, the TV trailers for the glossy new autumn programmes - I could feel the new term padding towards me."

artifact    artefact   

falsie    pad    stuffing    cushion   

pad   

adding    gadding    madding