pad

  • 51pad — See backing pad brake pad ceramic brake pad friction pad pillion pad sintered metal brake pad skid pad …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 52pad — [16] English has two words pad, both of them borrowed from Low German or Dutch. The ancestral meaning of pad ‘cushion’ seems to be ‘sole of the foot’, although that sense did not emerge in English until the 18th century. Flemish pad and Low… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 53pad — [16] English has two words pad, both of them borrowed from Low German or Dutch. The ancestral meaning of pad ‘cushion’ seems to be ‘sole of the foot’, although that sense did not emerge in English until the 18th century. Flemish pad and Low… …

    Word origins

  • 54pad — I. verb (padded; padding) Etymology: perhaps from Middle Dutch paden to follow a path, from pad path Date: 1553 transitive verb to traverse on foot intransitive verb to go on foot ; walk; especially to walk with or as if with padded feet …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 55pad — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 pieces of paper fastened together at one edge ADJECTIVE ▪ memo, note (usually notepad), scratch (AmE) ▪ drawing, sketch ▪ writing …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 56pad — I n 1. cushion, Inf. sit upon, pillow, bolster; padding, filling, stuffing, wadding. See padding(def. 1). 2. pad of paper, tablet, writing pad, note pad, memo pad. 3.(all of animals) foot, Zool. forefoot, paw, fore paw. 4. gauze pad, Med.… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 57Pad — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Sur les autres projets Wikimedia : « Pad », sur le Wiktionnaire (dictionnaire universel) Pad ou PAD peut désigner: Une manette de jeu; Port …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 58pad — 1. noun /pæd/ a) A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on. b) A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. 2. verb /pæd/ a) To stuff …

    Wiktionary

  • 59pad — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. cushion, mat, buffer; [writing] tablet; slang, flat, room[s] (see abode). v. cushion, stuff, wad; enlarge, overstate, inflate. See softness, support, writing. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Material for… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 60pad — pad1 noun 1》 a thick piece of soft or absorbent material.     ↘a protective guard worn over a part of the body by a sports player. 2》 the fleshy underpart of an animal s foot or of a human finger. 3》 a number of sheets of blank paper fastened… …

    English new terms dictionary