Pad

Noun

 * 1) A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
 * 2) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
 * 3) A soft, or small, cushion.
 * 4) A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
 * 5) An animal's foot or paw.
 * 6) Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
 * 7) A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
 * 8) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
 * 9) A sanitary napkin.
 * 10) 🇺🇸 A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
 * 11)  a batsman's leg pad that protects it from damage when hit by the ball
 * 12) A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
 * 13) A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
 * 14) A keypad.
 * 15) A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
 * 16) An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"
 * 17) The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
 * 18) 🇺🇸 A bed.
 * 19)  A place of residence.
 * 20)  A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
 * 21) A mousepad.

Verb

 * 1)  To stuff.
 * 2)  To furnish with a pad or padding.
 * 3)  To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
 * The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.
 * "Obama pads delegate lead ... with win in key western state."  Austin American-Statesman newspaper, May 21, 2008.
 * 1)  To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
 * to pad cloth
 * 1)  to deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

Derived terms

 * well-padded

Noun

 * 1)  A toad.

Noun

 * 1)  A footpath; a road or track.
 * 2) An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
 * 3)  A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.

Verb

 * 1)  To travel along (a road, path etc.).
 * 2)  To travel on foot.
 * 3)  To wear a path by walking.
 * 4)  To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
 * 5) * 1922,, 
 * Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out...
 * 1)  To practise highway robbery.

Interjection

 * 1) Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
 * I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.

Noun

 * 1) The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

Thesaurus
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Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/p{d/}}

Etymology 1
1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", possibly from or  pad:.

Etymology 2
Precise etymology unknown; probably existed (though unattested) in. Cognate with Dutch pad:, dialectal German Padde:, Swedish padda:, Danish padde:, and possibly ancestor to the pad-like English paddle:.

Etymology 3
From Dutch pad or pat ‘path’.

Etymology 4
Perhaps an alteration of ped:.

Etymology 5
Probably partly from, partly imitative.

Etymology 6
Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.

Noun

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 * Swedish: helikopterlandningsplats, landningsplats


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Derived terms

 * gamepad
 * incontinence pad
 * joypad
 * keypad


 * launchpad
 * mousepad
 * notepad


 * sleeping pad
 * touchpad
 * trackpad

Verb

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 * French: rembourrer


 * Finnish: suurennella, paisutella, paikata


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Verb

 * Finnish: kulkea jotakin pitkin


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 * Finnish: tassutella

Interjection

 * Finnish: tassun, tissun-tassun


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Noun

 * Finnish: tassutus


 * Swedish: tassande

Anagrams

 * ADP
 * dap
 * DPA
 * PDA

Noun

 * 1) toad (an amphibian similar to a frog with bigger back legs and more ragged skin)

Noun

 * 1) path (narrow road, usually unpaved)

Derived terms

 * modderpad
 * wandelpad

Noun

 * 1) bench

Etymology
From a language, compare Croatian pod:.

Derived terms

 * futópad
 * kőpad
 * ülőpad
 * színpad
 * zongorapad

Noun

 * 1) fall

Related terms

 * pȁsti

Abbreviation

 * 1) histopathology