pad

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   add padding to

   pad the seat of the chair

2. 2
   verb

   line or stuff with soft material

   pad a bra

3. 3
   noun

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

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   The amount by which a signal has been reduced.

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

5. 5
   noun

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

   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.

6. 6
   verb

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

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

7. 7
   verb

   To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

   to pad cloth

8. 8
   verb

   To walk with soft steps.

   pad down the corridor

Etymology

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