noun. A pad or pillow with a soft filling, used for resting, reclining, or kneeling.

noun. Something resilient used as a rest, support, or shock absorber.

noun. A mat placed or attached beneath carpeting to provide softness and increase durability.

noun. A padlike body part.

noun. The rim bordering the playing surface of a billiard table.

noun. A pillow used in lacemaking.

noun. Something that mitigates or relieves an adverse effect.

transitive verb. To provide with a cushion.

transitive verb. To place or seat on a cushion.

transitive verb. To cover or hide (something) with or as if with a cushion.

transitive verb. To protect from impacts or other disturbing effects.

transitive verb. To mitigate the effects of; absorb the shock of.

In machinery, to compress (exhaust-steam or other motive fluid) by closing the exhaust-outlet of a cylinder before the piston completes its traverse.

noun. An expansion at the lower extremity of a grape-vine from which a part of its roots spring.

noun. Same as saddle, 3 .

noun. In pianoforte-making, a pad or roll of felt placed under the ends of the keys to prevent noise. See cut under pianoforte.

noun. Same as coronet, 6.

noun. A pool formed by a low dam or obstruction immediately below a higher dam to prevent erosion or destructive effect of the water which falls over the higher dam or hydraulic work.

noun. A bag-like case of cloth or leather, usually of moderate size, filled with feathers, wool, or other soft material, used to support or ease some part of the body in sitting or reclining, as on a chair or lounge. See pillow.

noun. Something resembling a cushion in structure, softness, elasticity, use, or appearance; especially, something used to counteract a sudden shock, jar, or jolt, as in a piece of mechanism.

noun. The rubber of an electrical machine. See rubber.

noun. The padded side or rim of a billiard-table.

noun. The head of a bit-stock. See brace, 14.

noun. In machinery, a body of air or steam which serves, under pressure, as an elastic check or buffer; specifically, steam left in the cylinder of an engine to serve as an elastic check for the piston. The cushion is made by closing the exhaust-outlet an instant before the end of the stroke, or by opening the inlet for live steam before the stroke is finished.

noun. In zoology, a pulvillus.

noun. In botany, the enlargement at or beneath the insertion of many leaves, a special mobile organ. Also called pulvinus.

noun. In architecture, the echinus of a capital.

noun. The woolsack.

To seat on or as on a cushion or cushions.

To cover or conceal with or as with a cushion; furnish with a cushion or cushions, in any sense of that word: as, to cushion a seat; to cushion a carriage.

. To put aside or suppress.

In billiards, to make the cue-ball hit the cushion, either before it touches any other ball or after contact with the object-ball.

transitive verb. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

transitive verb. To furnish with cushions.

transitive verb. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

transitive verb. a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.

noun. A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.

noun. Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use.

noun. a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.

noun. a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.

noun. the elastic edge of a billiard table.

noun. A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.

noun. A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces.

noun. a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.

noun. A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.

noun. Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.

noun. The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.

noun. a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objcetive.

verb. to provide a soft pillow cushion

verb. to absorb or deaden the impact of something

"It can be surrounded by futons or soft cushions depending where I am, in Bangalore the cushion is a must but in Mumbai futon is the right choice."

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Seat  abate  absorb  absorb the shock  acoustic tile  

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