PAD (padded, padding)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pad mean? 

• PAD (noun)
  The noun PAD has 7 senses:

1. a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

2. the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)

3. a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp

4. a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort

5. a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

6. temporary living quarters

7. the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger

  Familiarity information: PAD used as a noun is common.

• PAD (verb)
  The verb PAD has 4 senses:

1. add details to

2. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

3. line or stuff with soft material

4. add padding to

  Familiarity information: PAD used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

pad; pad of paper; tablet

Hypernyms ("pad" is a kind of...):

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pad"):

message pad; writing pad (a pad of paper on which messages can be written)

notepad (a pad of paper for keeping notes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pad" is a kind of...):

foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pad"):

lily pad (floating leaves of a water lily)

Holonyms ("pad" is a part of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

inking pad; inkpad; pad; stamp pad

Hypernyms ("pad" is a kind of...):

block (a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides))

Sense 4

Meaning:

A flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pad" is a kind of...):

cushioning; padding (artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pad"):

powderpuff; puff (a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin)

skin patch; transdermal patch (a medicated adhesive pad placed on the skin for absorption of a time released dose of medication into the bloodstream)

hot pad; table mat (a pad for use under a hot dish to protect a table)

Kotex; sanitary napkin; sanitary towel (a disposable absorbent pad (trade name Kotex); worn to absorb menstrual flow)

rat (a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure)

potholder (an insulated pad for holding hot pots)

plastron (a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest)

panel (a soft pad placed under a saddle)

mattress pad (a protective pad over a mattress to protect it)

mattress (a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed)

mat (a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it)

cleaning pad (a pad used as a cleaning implement)

carpet pad; rug pad; underlay; underlayment (a pad placed under a carpet)

Derivation:

pad (add padding to)

pad (line or stuff with soft material)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

launch area; launch pad; launching pad; launchpad; pad

Hypernyms ("pad" is a kind of...):

platform (a raised horizontal surface)

Holonyms ("pad" is a part of...):

launching site (a place for launching pads)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Temporary living quarters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

diggings; digs; domiciliation; lodgings; pad

Hypernyms ("pad" is a kind of...):

living quarters; quarters (housing available for people to live in)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pad" is a kind of...):

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Holonyms ("pad" is a part of...):

finger (any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb))

paw (a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped)

Derivation:

pad (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud)

• PAD (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add details to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad

Hypernyms (to "pad" is one way to...):

amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pad"):

glorify (cause to seem more splendid)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

footslog; pad; plod; slog; tramp; trudge

Context example:

Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone

Hypernyms (to "pad" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pad"):

slop; slosh; splash; splosh; squelch; squish (walk through mud or mire)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

They pad up the hill

Derivation:

pad (the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Line or stuff with soft material

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

fill out; pad

Context example:

pad a bra

Hypernyms (to "pad" is one way to...):

stuff (cram into a cavity)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pad"):

rat (give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

pad (a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort)

padding (artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Add padding to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

bolster; pad

Context example:

pad the seat of the chair

Hypernyms (to "pad" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

pad (a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort)

padding (artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort)

 Context examples 

The HAN has been proven to be pre-neoplastic (premalignant) by serial transplantation into the gland-cleared fat pad of syngeneic mice.

(LobuloAlveolar Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

When transplanted, the foci grow in gland cleared mammary fat pads but not in the subcutaneous tissue.

(Low Grade Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

He was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his capture by making nail-marks on the edge of the door between the ridges of padding.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I know, I know, and it is too pad.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It consists of a pad of adipose tissue covered by a thick epidermis containing dermal sweat glands.

(Footpad, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

High risk lesions grow in the gland cleared mammary fat pad and frequently result in tumors and metastasis.

(High Grade Mouse MIN, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

The very large, bear-like feet are fully covered with hair and have tough, black, thick pads.

(Black Russian Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

It was the tread of some animal—the rhythm of soft but heavy pads placed cautiously upon the ground.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The paws are small and tight with thick pads.

(Norwegian Elkhound, NCI Thesaurus)

The broad pads of their feet were spread wide and in contact with the snow were like velvet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)