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Added 9 October 2026

pad

/pæd/ symbol

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ISO 639-3 language code for Paumarí.

noun

A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
A soft, or small, cushion.

verb

To stuff.
To furnish with a pad or padding.
To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.

noun

A path, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a track made by animals.
An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
A robber who infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.

Origin

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology. For sense "ends of a digit", cf. Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

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