padded

«padded» in Mova's school dictionary: Filled or covered with soft material to make it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (padded); also past form of «pad» (pad, pads, padded, padding)

meaning for a pupil

1) Filled or covered with soft material to make it comfortable or to protect: «a padded jacket», «a padded envelope». tree →

2) (verb, past) Walked softly and quietly: «The cat padded across the floor». tree →

3) Made longer with extra words or material that is not needed: «a padded essay». tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety and sport: helmets, knee pads and goalkeeper gloves are padded to protect you from bumps. In everyday life: «padded coat», «padded envelope» for posting fragile things. In stories: animals and people «pad» softly on quiet feet.

examples

• I wore my padded jacket in the snow. tree →
• Send the glasses in a padded envelope. tree →
• Bike helmets are padded inside. tree →
• The cat padded softly across the kitchen. tree →
• The walls of the soft play room are padded. tree →
• My essay was too short, so I padded it out with extra details. tree →
• His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket. tree →

note

Double «d»: padded. «Padded out» (essay) means made longer, often with words that add nothing — teachers prefer clear, full ideas instead. A «padded cell» is a room with soft walls.

In the corpora

• "Well-padded" is a joking way to say fat.
• "Well-upholstered" is a joking British way to say fat, as if the person were a padded sofa.
• Landing on soft, padded parts like your bottom, thigh and side hurts less than landing on bones.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «padded» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.