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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun padding has 1 sense

• padding(n = noun.artifact) cushioning - artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort; Array
is a kind of artefact, artifact
has particulars: cushion, falsie, pad, stuffing
Derived forms verb pad₄, verb pad₃

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THESAURUS

padding

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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Lining

N lining, inner coating, coating, stalactite, stalagmite, filling, stuffing, wadding, padding, wainscot, parietes, wall, lined.

Stopper

N stopper, stopple, plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap, rammer, ram, ramrod, piston, stop-gap, wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet, cover, valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve, janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary.

Softness

N softness, pliableness, flexibility, pliancy, pliability, sequacity, malleability, ductility, tractility, extendibility, extensibility, plasticity, inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity, penetrability, clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding, alumina, argil, cushion, pillow, feather bed, down, padding, wadding, foam, mollification, softening, soft, tender, supple, pliant, pliable, flexible, flexile, lithe, lithesome, lissom, limber, plastic, ductile, tractile, tractable, malleable, extensile, sequacious, inelastic, aluminous, remollient, yielding, flabby, limp, flimsy, doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony, flaccid, flocculent, downy, edematous, oedematous, medullary, argillaceous, mellow, soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk, yielding as wax, tender as chicken.

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