padding

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpædɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ædɪŋ
  • Homophone: patting (General American)

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

padding

  1. present participle and gerund of pad

Etymology 2

Etymology tree
English pad
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-gō
Proto-Germanic *-ōngō?
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English padding

    From pad + -ing.

    Noun

    padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)

    1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
    2. (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
    3. (military, cryptography)

    Padding (cryptography) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

    Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.[1]

    1. Anything of little value used to fill up space.
      That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
      • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 135:
        But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers.
    2. The process of mordanting a fabric.
    4. (ABDL) A diaper.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:diaper
    5. (obsolete) Robbing on a highway.
    Derived terms
    Translations
    extraneous text added to a message

    References

    1. ^ Joint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006).

    Dupaningan Agta

    Noun

    paddíng

    1. wall
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