Etymology : perhaps from Middle Dutch paden to follow a path, from pad path
Pronunciation : pad
Function : verb
Date : 1553
1. piece of soft material which cushions; block of pages stacked together and connected on one side; one's lodging (Slang); sanitary napkin; soft padded sections on the bottom of an animal's paw; sound of footsteps. cushion; fill; fill out; walk, go by foot. apartment, digs You have a nice pad, Nora. I love your leather furniture!. house, home, place where you live. pad of paper.
2. A footpath; a road.
3. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
4. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; usually called a footpad.
5. The act of robbing on the highway.
6. To travel upon foot; to tread.
7. To travel heavily or slowly.
8. To rob on foot.
9. To wear a path by walking.
10. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
11. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
12. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
13. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
14. A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
15. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
16. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
17. A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
18. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
19. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
20. To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. the foot or fleshy cushion-like underside of the toes of an animal a usually thin flat mass of padding a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair" line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra".
21. 1. A pad is a fairly thick, flat piece of a material such as cloth or rubber. Pads are used, for example, to clean things, to protect things, or to change their shape. He withdrew the needle and placed a pad of cotton-wool over the spot. a scouring pad.
22. A pad of paper is a number of pieces of paper which are fixed together along the top or the side, so that each piece can be torn off when it has been used. She wrote on a pad of paper Have a pad and pencil ready and jot down some of your thoughts.
23. When someone pads somewhere, they walk there with steps that are fairly quick, light, and quiet. Freddy speaks very quietly and pads around in soft velvet slippers I often bumped into him as he padded the corridors.
24. A pad is a platform or an area of flat, hard ground where helicopters take off and land or rockets are launched. a little round helicopter pad. a landing pad on the back of the ship see also:
launch pad.
25. The pads of a person's fingers and toes or of an animal's feet are the soft, fleshy parts of them. Tap your cheeks all over with the pads of your fingers.
26. If you pad something, you put something soft in it or over it in order to make it less hard, to protect it, or to give it a different shape. Pad the back of a car seat with a pillow I can tell you I always padded my bras. + padded pad·ded a padded jacket. back-rests padded with camel's wool. see also:
padding.
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