Padding

Verb
padding



Noun

 * 1) Soft filling used in cushions.
 * 2)  Extra characters such as ASCII 32 spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
 * 3)  Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.

Thesaurus
aegis, all fours, arm guard, backstop, battology, bedizenment, bonus, buffer, bulwark, bumper, bush, bushing, contraceptive, copyright, crash helmet, crawl, crawling, creep, creeping, cushion, cushioning, dashboard, decoration, dodger, doubling, doublure, duplication, duplication of effort, easing, embellishment, expletive, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, extravagance, face mask, facing, fat, featherbedding, fender, filigree, filler, filling, fillip, finger guard, flourish, foot guard, frill, frills, frippery, fuse, gasket, gingerbread, gland, goggles, governor, guard, guardrail, gumshoeing, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, inlay, inlayer, insole, insulation, interlineation, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, lagniappe, laminated glass, laxation, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, liner, lining, luxury, macrology, mask, mellowing, mollification, mollifying, mudguard, needlessness, nightwalking, nose guard, ornament, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, packing, pad, palladium, patent, payroll padding, pilot, pleonasm, premium, preventive, prolixity, prophylactic, protective clothing, protective umbrella, prowling, pussyfooting, redundance, redundancy, relaxation, safeguard, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, scrabble, scramble, screen, seat belt, shield, shin guard, sidling, slinking, snaking, sneaking, softening, softening-up, something extra, stammering, stealing, stopping, stuffing, stuttering, sun helmet, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, tampon, tautologism, tautology, tippytoe, tiptoe, tiptoeing, trimming, twist, umbrella, unnecessariness, verbosity, wadding, wainscot, windscreen, windshield, worming, wrinkle

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