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# padded

«padded» in Mova's school dictionary: **Filled or covered with soft material to make it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (padded); also past form of «pad» (pad, pads, padded, padding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Filled or covered with soft material to make it comfortable or to protect: «a padded jacket», «a padded envelope». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#m1)

2) (verb, past) Walked softly and quietly: «The cat padded across the floor». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#m2)

3) Made longer with extra words or material that is not needed: «a padded essay». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In safety and sport: helmets, knee pads and goalkeeper gloves are padded to protect you from bumps. In everyday life: «padded coat», «padded envelope» for posting fragile things. In stories: animals and people «pad» softly on quiet feet.

### examples

- I wore my padded jacket in the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#x1)
- Send the glasses in a padded envelope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#x2)
- Bike helmets are padded inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#x3)
- The cat padded softly across the kitchen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#x4)
- The walls of the soft play room are padded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#x5)
- My essay was too short, so I padded it out with extra details. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#x6)
- His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/#x7)

### note

Double «d»: padded. «Padded out» (essay) means made longer, often with words that add nothing — teachers prefer clear, full ideas instead. A «padded cell» is a room with soft walls.

### In the corpora

- ["Well-padded" is a joking way to say fat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/9/)
- ["Well-upholstered" is a joking British way to say fat, as if the person were a padded sofa.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/17/)
- [Landing on soft, padded parts like your bottom, thigh and side hurts less than landing on bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «padded» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padded/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.