Meaning

11 senses

  1. (transitive)To stuff.

    line or stuff with soft material

  2. (transitive)To furnish with a pad or padding.

    stopfen, hineinstopfen

    add padding to

  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.

    pad one's expenses

    füllen, verlängern

  4. (transitive)To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

    to pad cloth

  5. (transitive)To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

  6. To walk with soft steps.

    pad down the corridor

  7. (transitive)To travel along (a road, path etc.).

  8. (intransitive)To travel on foot.

  9. (intransitive)To wear a path by walking.

  10. (intransitive)To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.

    tappen

  11. (intransitive, obsolete)To practise highway robbery.

Examples

94 sentences

  1. I need a mouse pad.

    Мені потрібний килимок для мишки. — deniko

    ruМне нужен коврик для мыши. — Olya

    deIch brauche ein Mauspad. — Wuzzy

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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. — odexed

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to furnish with a pad or padding:
figuratively: to fill or lengthen:
to walk softly, quietly or steadily:

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.

Probably partly from Middle Low German pat, partly imitative. Some senses possibly influenced by pad (“soft part of an animal's foot”, noun).

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Forms

pads, padding, padded, padded
Base formpad · to pad
3rd person singularpads
Present participlepadding
Past simplepadded
Past participlepadded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypad
he, she, itpads

Past simpleLesson

all personspadded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave padded
he, she, ithas padded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pad

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

15 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words
Relatedpadding
Derivedoverpadpaddabilitypaddablepad uprepadwell-paddedhigh pad

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
packetB2pactpaddleB1paddock
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