Meaning of Padding | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
   countable, uncountable
2. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
   countable, uncountable
3. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
   countable, uncountable
4. Anything of little value used to fill up space.
   countable, uncountable
5. The process of mordanting a fabric.
   countable, uncountable
6. A diaper.
   countable, uncountable
7. Robbing on a highway.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.”

“But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers.”

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