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Dictionaries » Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary 4th edition » P » pad - definition
pad
(pads, padding, padded)
| A pad is a fairly thick, flat piece of a material such as cloth or rubber. Pads are used, for example, to clean things, to protect things, or to change their shape. |
| He withdrew the needle and placed a pad of cotton-wool over the spot. |
| A pad of paper is a number of pieces of paper which are fixed together along the top or the side, so that each piece can be torn off when it has been used. |
| She wrote on a pad of paper... |
| Have a pad and pencil ready and jot down some of your thoughts... |
| When someone pads somewhere, they walk there with steps that are fairly quick, light, and quiet. |
| Freddy speaks very quietly and pads around in soft velvet slippers... |
| I often bumped into him as he padded the corridors. |
| A pad is a platform or an area of flat, hard ground where helicopters take off and land or rockets are launched. |
| ...a little round helicopter pad. |
| ...a landing pad on the back of the ship... |
| The pads of a person's fingers and toes or of an animal's feet are the soft, fleshy parts of them. |
| Tap your cheeks all over with the pads of your fingers. |
| N-COUNT: usu pl, usu N of n |
| If you pad something, you put something soft in it or over it in order to make it less hard, to protect it, or to give it a different shape. |
| Pad the back of a car seat with a pillow... |
| I can tell you I always padded my bras. |
| ...back-rests padded with camel's wool. |
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