padding

«padding» in Mova's school dictionary: Soft material used to fill or cover something, to make it… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (padding; uncountable); also -ing form of «pad»

meaning for a pupil

1) Soft material used to fill or cover something, to make it comfortable or to protect it. tree →

2) Extra words or material added to make something longer but not better. tree →

3) (computing) Space added around something on a screen or web page. tree →

4) Padding can also mean walking softly and quietly, with light steps. tree →

sense in the lessons

In safety and sport: protective padding in helmets, shin pads and car seats absorbs the force of a bump. In design and technology: «add padding» to a cushion or soft toy. In English lessons: avoid padding — write what matters. In computing lessons on web pages: «padding» is the space inside a box.

examples

• The helmet has thick padding inside. tree →
• We stuffed the cushion with padding. tree →
• The padding in my shoe makes it comfy. tree →
• Rugby players wear padding on their shoulders. tree →
• Pack the vase with lots of padding. tree →
• Your story has too much padding; cut the boring parts. tree →
• The cat was padding quietly down the hall. tree →
• And so it happened with a fox, a hare, a boar, and a bear, till each prince had quite a following of young beasts padding along behind him. tree →

note

Uncountable: «some padding», not «a padding». In science, padding protects because it spreads a force over more time and area, so the bump is softer.

In the corpora

• On a backyard trampoline one person jumps at a time, with the net and padding in place.

Trees and pragmatics

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