padding

About 1.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of pad
2. noun Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
3. noun Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
4. noun Anything of little value used to fill up space.

   That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.

5. noun The process of mordanting a fabric.
6. noun A diaper.
7. noun Robbing on a highway.

Similar words

cushioning upholstery stuffing cushion buffer packing damper headroom room dampening

Often followed by

of and is to the in on for or

Word family

paddings