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Pad

noun

1.

A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge. Synonyms: pad of paper, tablet.

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. Synonyms: inking pad, inkpad, stamp pad.

4.

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

5.

A platform from which rockets or space craft are launched. Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, launchpad.

6.

Temporary living quarters. Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings.

7.

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

verb

(past & past part. padded; pres. part. padding)

1.

Add details to. Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard.

2.

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud. Synonyms: footslog, plod, slog, tramp, trudge.

3.

Line or stuff with soft material. Synonym: fill out.

4.

Add padding to. Synonym: bolster.

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"Pad" Quotes from Famous Books

... realized that, before the Martian had pitched over the ravine, a suction pad had for a moment caught at his hand. It had done the beast no ...

— Martians Never Die • Lucius Daniel

... lawyer. He took up a pad and wrote a memorandum on it. Then aloud he said: "I'd like to have a little talk with Dr. Bernstein. I think I'll ask him to come and see me. Let me ...

— The Third Degree - A Narrative of Metropolitan Life • Charles Klein and Arthur Hornblow

... don't want you to begin that way. Start without a pad, and you never will have to unlearn what you get. That's my advice. I'm going to set him at a gallop now. Stand straight ...

— The Circus Boys Across The Continent • Edgar B. P. Darlington

... business which made him rich by the methods to which he condemned the business administration of the government. He did not fill his counting-room with shirkers and incompetents; he did not find sinecures for his wife's poor relations; he did not pad his payroll with parasites whose characteristics were an itching palm and an unconquerable aversion to work. He knew how to select the quickest, cleverest, most industrious assistants, and ...

— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer

... the back heavily, but jubilantly. "I've diskivered," he said, "that if you can't crack a hick'ry nut with a pad of butter, you better use a hammer.... Sometimes Coldriver's a nut needin' a sledge—but when it ...

— Scattergood Baines • Clarence Budington Kelland

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