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  • intransitive verb. To go about on foot.
  • intransitive verb. To move or walk about almost inaudibly.
  • intransitive verb. To go along (a route) on foot.
  • noun. A muffled sound resembling that of soft footsteps.
  • noun. A horse with a plodding gait.
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  • noun. A thin, cushionlike mass of soft material used to fill, to give shape, or to protect against jarring, scraping, or other injury.
  • noun. A piece of equipment consisting of shaped cushioning material often attached to a hard outer surface and worn to protect against blows, collisions, or shots.
  • noun. A flexible saddle without a frame.
  • noun. An ink-soaked cushion used to ink a rubber stamp.
  • noun. A number of sheets of paper of the same size stacked one on top of the other and glued together at one end; a tablet.
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  • noun. The broad floating leaf of an aquatic plant such as a water lily.
  • noun. The flattened fleshy stem of a cactus such as a prickly pear.
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  • noun. The fleshy underside of the end of a finger or toe.
  • noun. The cushionlike flesh on the underpart of the toes and feet of many animals.
  • noun. The foot of such an animal.
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  • noun. A launch pad.
  • noun. A helipad.
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  • noun. A keypad.
  • noun. A touchpad.
  • noun. One's living quarters, especially an apartment.
  • transitive verb. To line or stuff with soft material.
  • transitive verb. To lengthen or increase, especially with extraneous or false information.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A road-horse; a horse for riding on the road, as distinguished from a hunter or a work-horse, etc.; a roadster.
  • To travel on foot; tramp slowly or wearily along; trudge or jog along.
  • To travel on foot over or along; proceed on foot through; journey slowly, steadily, or wearily along.
  • To tread or beat down; make smooth and level by treading: as, to pad a path.
  • noun. [pad, verb] A dull sound, as of footsteps.
  • To stuff or furnish with a pad or padding: often with out.
  • To expand by the insertion of extraneous or needless matter, or the use of unnecessary words: as, to pad an article in a newspaper; to pad out a page in a book.
  • In calico-printing, to impregnate (the cotton cloth to be printed) with a mordant. It is done in a machine called a padding-machine (which see).
  • To glue the edges of (sheets of paper) together, so as to form a pad.
  • In mech., to puncture with numerous fine holes, as the end of a pipe, or the rose on the end of a nozle.
  • noun. A path; a footpath; a road.
  • noun. A pannier; a basket.
  • To be a footpad, or highway robber; frequent roads or highways in order to rob.
  • To move with the soft thud of a bare foot striking the ground.
  • In leather-making, to apply a heavy coating of solution to.
  • In India, to pack on an elephant's pad.
  • noun. A robber; a footpad.
  • noun. A soft cushion, or something of the nature of a cushion, or a stuffed part, as of a garment, a saddle, etc., used to fill up a hollow, to relieve pressure, or as a protection.
  • noun. Specifically— In cricket, a wadded guard worn to protect the leg by a batsman or wicket-keeper.
  • noun. In embroidery, a small qnantity of fibrous material, such as raw cotton or silk, used for raising parts of a pattern, the stitch covering it closely.
  • noun. One of the large, fleshy, thick-skinned protuberances of the sole of the foot of various quadrupeds, as the dog or fox; hence, specifically, the foot of a fox.
  • noun. One of the tylari of a bird's foot; one of the cushion-like enlargements on the under side of a bird's toes. Compare heel-pad and pterna.
  • noun. In anatomy, the splenium of the corpus callosum. See splenium.
  • Word Usage
    "Out of doors something made a circuit of the cabin, like a beast of the night, stealthy footsteps muffled by the snow: _pad -- pad -- pad_ ...."
    Form
    gamepad  joypad  keypad  padded  padding  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brad  Chad  Dad  Gad  Mossad  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    belt  blanket  box  button  cover  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    padded  padding  
    verb-form
    padded  padding  pads