pad
A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
Noun 4 meanings
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 soft area on the ends of a digit:
Verb 4 meanings
To stuff.
To furnish with a pad or padding.
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.”
To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
Interjection 1 meaning
Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
“I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.”
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.
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PAD at a glance
PAD has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (P 3 + A 1 + D 2) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,930 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with pad
All rhymes- NOTEPAD10
- KEYPAD16
- LAUNCHPAD17
- HELIPAD13
- TOUCHPAD16
- TRACKPAD17
- MOUSEPAD13
- SKETCHPAD21
- JOYPAD19
- FOOTPAD13
- SKIDPAD15
- KNEEPAD14
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