Definition of Pad

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Definition of Pad

Pad

A footpath; a road.

An easy-paced horse; a padnag.

A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.

The act of robbing on the highway.

To travel upon foot; to tread.

To travel heavily or slowly.

To rob on foot.

To wear a path by walking.

A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.

A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.

A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.

To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.

To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.

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Pad Quotations

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
Walt Disney

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.
Travis Barker

But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
Scott Caan

The excitement really didn't start to build until the trailer - which was carrying me, with a space suit with ventilation and all that sort of stuff - pulled up to the launch pad.
Alan Shepard

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
Wally Schirra

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
Katherine Dunn

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.
Lou Gramm

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
Matthew Vaughn

Pad Translations

pad in Afrikaans is blok
pad in Danish is blok
pad in Dutch is blok
pad in French is pastille, bloc, lingot, rembourrons, rembourrez
pad in German is Polster, Unterlage, Feld
pad in Italian is blocco
pad in Portuguese is almofada
pad in Spanish is bloque, almohadilla
pad in Swedish is vaddera, madrassera, kudde

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