pad

See also: Pad, pað, pád, and pAD

pad - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pæd/
  • Hyphenation: pad

Noun

pad (plural pads)

  1. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
  2. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
  3. A soft, or small, cushion.
  4. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
  5. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
  6. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
  7. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
  8. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
  9. Ellipsis of menstrual. or sanitary pad: a mass of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.
  10. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
  11. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
  12. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
  13. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
  14. Ellipsis of keypad.
  15. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
  16. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
  17. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
  18. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
  19. (US, slang) A bed.
  20. (colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
  21. (UK, slang) A prison cell.
  22. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
  23. Ellipsis of mouse pad.
  24. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
  25. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

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Translations

  • Albanian: mallth (sq)
  • Bulgarian: възглавничка на животинска лапа f (vǎzglavnička na životinska lapa)
  • Chinese:
  • Finnish: tassu (fi), käpälä (fi)
  • French: coussinet (fr) m
  • Swedish: tass (sv) c
  • Finnish: pehmuste (fi)
  • Maori: whakapuru, paretua (to protect the back), aupuru
  • Bulgarian: плаващо листо (plavašto listo)
  • Finnish: kelluslehti
  • Finnish: kenttä (fi)
  • Swedish: helikopterlandningsplats c, landningsplats c

Verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

  1. (transitive) To stuff.
  2. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
  3. (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
    • The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.
    • 2008 May 21, Austin American-Statesman:
      • "Obama pads delegate lead [] with win in key western state."
    • pad one's expenses
  4. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
    • to pad cloth
  5. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

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Alternative forms

Noun

pad (plural pads)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.

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Noun

pad (plural pads)

  1. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
  2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
  3. (Britain, obsolete) A robber who infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
  4. (Britain, obsolete) A tramp or itinerant musician.

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Noun

pad (plural pads)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.

Verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

  1. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
  2. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
  3. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
  4. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.

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Interjection

pad

  1. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
    • I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.

Translations

  • Finnish: tassun, tissun-tassun
  • Swedish: tass (sv)

Noun

pad (plural pads)

  1. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

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Anagrams

pad - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [pɑt]

Noun

pad (plural paaie, diminutive paadjie)

  1. path; way; street

pad - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pɑt/
  • Hyphenation: pad

Noun

pad n (plural paden, diminutive paadje n)

  1. path (narrow road, usually unpaved)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: pad
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: pata
  • Jersey Dutch: pât, pāt
  • Negerhollands: pad, pat

Noun

pad f (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

  1. toad (an amphibian of the order Anura similar to a frog with shorter legs and more ragged skin)

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Noun

pad c (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

  1. (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axle of the wheel; dropout.

pad - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈpɒd]

Noun

pad (plural padok)

  1. bench
  2. (education) desk (of students in school, traditionally built together with the seats)
    • Synonym: iskolapad
  3. (religion) pew (in a church)
  4. (law) dock (of the defendant, in court), stand (of a witness, in court)
  5. (dialectal) attic, loft

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
Possessive forms of pad

Derived terms

Compound words

pad - Old English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pɑːd/

Noun

pād f

  1. an outer garment, coat, cloak

Declension

Descendants

  • >? Middle English: pod (attested in pod ware)

pad - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pat/
  • Syllabification: pad
  • Homophone: pat

Noun

pad m inan

  1. (sports) a quick fall with the whole body to the ground

Noun

pad m inan

  1. (video games) gamepad

Declension

singular plural
nominative pad pady
genitive padu padów
dative padowi padom
accusative pad pady
instrumental padem padami
locative padzie padach
vocative padzie pady

pad - Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /pâːd/

Noun

pȃd m (Cyrillic spelling па̑д)

  1. fall

Declension

singular plural
nominative pȃd pádovi
genitive pada padova
dative padu padovima
accusative pad padove
vocative pade padovi
locative padu padovima
instrumental padom padovima

pad - Sumerian

Romanization

pad

  1. Romanization of 𒉻 (pad)

pad - Tausug

Noun

pād

  1. the palm of the hand

pad - Volapük

Noun

pad (nominative plural pads)

  1. page

Declension

singular plural
nominative pad pads
genitive pada padas
dative pade pades
accusative padi padis
vocative 1 o pad! o pads!
predicative 2 padu padus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Meaning and Definition of pad
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