Meaning

32 senses
  1. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.

    Unterlage, Polster, Kissen

    подкла́дкаpodkládka, прокла́дкаprokládka, поду́шечкаpodúšečka

    a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort

  2. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

    Reitkissen

  3. A soft, or small, cushion.

    поду́шечкаpodúšečka

  4. A soft area on the ends of a digit:

    A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.

    Polster, Ballen

    the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger

  5. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.

    Pfote

  6. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.

    Ballen, Fettpolster, Polster

  7. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

    Schutzpolster, Schoner, Knieschoner

  8. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

    Stützpolster, Stütze, Nackenstütze

  9. A menstrual pad; a mass of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.

    a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp

  10. (US)A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

    Seerosenblatt

    the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)

  11. A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects the player from damage when hit by the ball.

    Schienbeinschoner

  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.

    Block, Schreibblock, Notizblock

Examples

94 sentences
  1. I need a mouse pad.

    Мені потрібний килимок для мишки.

    ruМне нужен коврик для мыши.

    deIch brauche ein Mauspad.

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  2. Tom usually carries a sketch pad.

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  3. Tom handed Mary a large padded envelope.

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  4. Tom took notes on a yellow legal pad.

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  5. I wrote the phone number on the writing pad.

    ruЯ записал номер телефона в блокнот.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
flattened mass of anything soft:
flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched:
colloquial: place of residence:
Deutsch
By meaning 11
flattened mass of anything soft:
cushion used as saddle:
cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals:
animal's foot or paw:
any cushion-like part of human body:
stuffed guard or protection:
soft bag or cushion:
floating leaf of a water plant:
block of paper:
panel or strip of material sensitive to pressure or touch:
flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched:

Origin

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology.

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology. For sense "ends of a digit", cf. Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

From Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-West Germanic *paddā, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle. Doublet of pode

From Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat (“path”). Doublet of path.

Perhaps an alteration of ped.

Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.

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Forms

plural: pads
Singularpad
Pluralpads

regular

Synonyms

16 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

122 related words

See also

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