Meaning of Pad | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A toad.
   British, dialectal
2. A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.
   Australia, British, Ireland, dialectal
3. A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
   British, dialectal
4. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
5. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
6. Initialism of peripheral artery disease.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
7. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
8. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
9. A robber who infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
   British, obsolete
10. A soft, or small, cushion.
11. A tramp or itinerant musician.
    British, obsolete
12. A soft area on the ends of a digit:
13. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the underside of the toes of animals.
14. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
15. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
16. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
17. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
18. A menstrual pad; a mass of absorbent material used to absorb menstrual flow.
19. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
    US
20. A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects the player from damage when hit by the ball.
21. 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.
22. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
23. Ellipsis of keypad.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
24. Ellipsis of mouse pad.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
25. a tablet PC
    slang
26. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
27. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end; a "trip cord".
28. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
29. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
30. A bed.
    US, slang
31. A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
    colloquial
32. A prison cell.
    UK, slang
33. A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
34. The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
35. A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

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Examples

“Collie ignored him. Reached the finger further. Closer. And closer yet, until — […] Collie yanked his hand back and peered at it like a kid with an interesting new scrape. Then he turned to Steve and held it out. A bead of blood, small and dark and perfect, was forming on the pad of his index finger.”

“In this study, when the views of the mothers on the tiring/straining situations during their daughters’ adolescence are examined, it is determined that the mothers mostly have difficulties in using the pads of their daughters, cleaning the hairs in the armpit and genital area, and bathing their daughters.”

“It is a general practice to pad down a condenser mike with as much as a 20-30 dB pad.”

“let us at least trust that the hair-pins will do their duty, and maintain the respectability of passion by holding the pads and puffs and frizettes in their proper places.”

“And when the map shows that the creek will no longer take him where he wants to go, then he looks for an animal pad and follows it, getting down on his belly and wriggling under thorny bush when he has to.”

“Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, / An abbot on an ambling pad, / Sometimes a curly shepherd lad, / Or long-hair'd page, in crimson clad, / Goes by to Camelot.”

“A Pad came pacing down the way : / The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue , / Upon the passing trav'ler sprung”

“These free-born sounds proceeded from four pads / In ambush laid, who had perceived him loiter / Behind his carriage; and, like handy lads, / Had seized the lucky hour to reconnoitre”

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