padding
padding is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The material with which anything is padded.
- 2.Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. London Sat. Rev.
- 3.(Calico Printing) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- beadle
- bung
- cerberus
- coating
- cork
- cover
- covering
- doorkeeper
- dossil
- fill
- filling
- incrust
- inner
- janitor
- line
- lining
- ostiary
- pad
- parietes
- peg
- piston
- pledget
- plug
- porter
- ram
- rammer
- ramrod
- slide
- spigot
- spike
- spill
- stalactite
- stalagmite
- stop-gap
- stopcock
- stopper
- stopping
- stopple
- stuff
- stuffing
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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