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# padding

«padding» in Mova's school dictionary: **Soft material used to fill or cover something, to make it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (padding; uncountable); also -ing form of «pad»

### meaning for a pupil

1) Soft material used to fill or cover something, to make it comfortable or to protect it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#m1)

2) Extra words or material added to make something longer but not better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#m2)

3) (computing) Space added around something on a screen or web page. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#m3)

4) Padding can also mean walking softly and quietly, with light steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In safety and sport: protective padding in helmets, shin pads and car seats absorbs the force of a bump. In design and technology: «add padding» to a cushion or soft toy. In English lessons: avoid padding — write what matters. In computing lessons on web pages: «padding» is the space inside a box.

### examples

- The helmet has thick padding inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#x1)
- We stuffed the cushion with padding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#x2)
- The padding in my shoe makes it comfy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#x3)
- Rugby players wear padding on their shoulders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#x4)
- Pack the vase with lots of padding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#x5)
- Your story has too much padding; cut the boring parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#x6)
- The cat was padding quietly down the hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#x7)
- And so it happened with a fox, a hare, a boar, and a bear, till each prince had quite a following of young beasts padding along behind him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/padding/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: «some padding», not «a padding». In science, padding protects because it spreads a force over more time and area, so the bump is softer.

### In the corpora

- [On a backyard trampoline one person jumps at a time, with the net and padding in place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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