pad
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Origin unknown; perhaps related to wad or inversely to a pad's lily pad?
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pad (plural pads)
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- An animal's foot or paw.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A sanitary napkin.
- (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- (cricket) a batsman's leg pad that protects it from damage when hit by the ball
- 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.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A keypad.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- (US, slang) A bed.
- (colloquial) A place of residence.
- (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
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to pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)
- (transitive) To stuff.
- (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
- (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
- The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.
- "Obama pads delegate lead ... with win in key western state." Austin American-Statesman newspaper, May 21, 2008.
- (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- to pad cloth
- (transitive, cricket) to deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
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[edit] Etymology 2
Precise etymology unknown; probably existed (though unattested) in Old English. Cognate with Dutch pad, dialectal German Padde, Swedish padda, Danish padde, and possibly ancestor to the pad-like English paddle.
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pad (plural pads)
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From Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat ‘path’.
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- (British, dialectal, Australian, Irish) A footpath; a road or track.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- (British, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
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Perhaps an alteration of ped.
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pad (plural pads)
- (British, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
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Probably partly from Middle Low German, partly imitative.
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to pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)
- (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- (intransitive) To travel on foot.
- (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
- (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
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Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.
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pad
- Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
- I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.
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pad (uncountable)
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
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pad f. (plural padden, diminutive padje, diminutive plural padjes)
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pad n. (plural paden, diminutive paadje, diminutive plural paadjes)
- path (narrow road, usually unpaved)
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From a Slavonic language, compare Croatian pod.
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pad (plural padok)
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- IPA: /pâːd/
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pȃd m. (Cyrillic spelling па̑д)
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| nominative | pȃd | pádovi |
| genitive | pada | padova |
| dative | padu | padovima |
| accusative | pad | padove |
| vocative | pade | padovi |
| locative | padu | padovima |
| instrumental | padom | padovima |
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pad