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Pad

noun
1.
A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge.  Synonyms: pad of paper, tablet.
2.
The large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily).
3.
A block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp.  Synonyms: inking pad, inkpad, stamp pad.
4.
A flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort.
5.
A platform from which rockets or space craft are launched.  Synonyms: launch area, launch pad, launching pad, launchpad.
6.
Temporary living quarters.  Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings.
7.
The fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger.
verb
(past & past part. padded; pres. part. padding)
1.
Add details to.  Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard.
2.
Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.  Synonyms: footslog, plod, slog, tramp, trudge.
3.
Line or stuff with soft material.  Synonym: fill out.
4.
Add padding to.  Synonym: bolster.



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"Pad" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the horse with her childish voice: "Hep! hep!" but this "hep, hep," was at the same time a sob. The horse increased his speed, clattering with his hoofs as he leaned more and more to the center. The girl, standing on the pad with her feet close together, seemed scarcely to touch it with the ends of her toes; her bare rosy arms rose and fell as she maintained her balance; her hair and light muslin dress floated behind her supple figure, which looked like a bird ...
— Sielanka: An Idyll • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... of the hawk's-bill there is a tongue, but of the character of a whale's tongue, and it is fastened underneath to the bottom of the mouth. At the base of it there is a sort of fleshy pad or cushion, which serves instead of a soft palate, that being another detail which is about to disappear from our history. We are now really entering upon the simplification of the digestive tube, which will, I forewarn you, end by ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace
... in his coat-pocket. He had forgotten to bring the receipt book, and Flannery drew a pad of blank receipts toward himself, and dipped a pen into the ink. Then he looked ...
— Mike Flannery On Duty and Off • Ellis Parker Butler
... butchers' meat, she finished a chop and drank a couple of glasses of wine for lunch. The food did her good, and she determined to take a long rest. For a month she would do nothing but rest, she would not think of painting, she would not even draw on the blotting-pad. Rest was what she wanted, and there was no better place to rest ...
— Celibates • George Moore
... at his side. A wild scrambling rush, a wriggle on the sill, a patter over the window-seat, and Scamp was twisting himself into white figure-eights all over the room, with tremendous energy but not a sound save the soft pad of his ...
— Pearl of Pearl Island • John Oxenham


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