noun [U]
1 soft material that is placed inside sth to make it more comfortable or to change its shape:
The shoes have thick padding at the ankle to offer greater support. * The actor's were made rounder for the part using cotton wool padding.
2 words that are used to make a speech, piece of writing, etc. longer, but that do not contain any interesting information:
Some of the quotations are useful, others are little more than padding.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for padding is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does padding appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — padding appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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