padding

Plural: paddings

Noun

• Soft material used to stuff or cushion; superfluous words.
• artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort
• Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
• Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
• Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
• Anything of little value used to fill up space.
• Robbing on a highway.
• The process of mordanting a fabric.

Verb

• add details to
• walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
• line or stuff with soft material
• add padding to
• present participle and gerund of pad

Examples

• He used a lot of PADDING around his premium tiles, hoping to extend a word later in Words With Friends.
• That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.

Synonyms

aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, bolster, cushioning, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, fill out, footslog, lard, pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge