padding

pad·ding  (pdng)

n.

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

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

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

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padding [ˈpædɪŋ]

n

1. any soft material used to pad clothes, furniture, etc.

2. superfluous material put into a speech or written work to pad it out; waffle

3. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Accounting & Book-keeping) inflated or false entries in a financial account, esp an expense account

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

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

padding - artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort cushioning artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole cushion - a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc. falsie - padding that is worn inside a brassiere pad - a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort stuffing - padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture cotton, cotton fiber, cotton wool - soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state kapok, silk cotton, vegetable silk - a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation straw - plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

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padding

noun

1. filling, stuffing, packing, wadding the chair's foam rubber padding

2. waffle (informal, chiefly Brit.), hot air (informal), verbiage, wordiness, verbosity, prolixity Politicians fill their speeches with a lot of padding.

Translations

padding [ˈpædɪŋ] N

1. (= material) → relleno m, almohadilla f

2. (fig) (in speech etc) → paja f, borra f

padding [ˈpædɪŋ] n

(= soft material) (for protection) → rembourrage m; (for comfort) → rembourrage m

(in speech, essay, report) → délayage m

padding

n

(= material) → Polsterung f

(fig: in essay etc) → Füllwerk nt, → Füllsel pl

padding [ˈpædɪŋ] n (material) → imbottitura (fig) (in speech, essay) → riempitivo