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1. A flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort
    
2. A number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
   - pad of paper, tablet
    
3. A block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp
   - inkpad, inking pad, stamp pad
    
4. A platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
   - launching pad, launchpad, launch pad, launch area
    
5. [informal] Temporary living quarters
   - diggings, digs [informal], domiciliation, lodgings
    
6. The sound of soft footsteps
    
7. The fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger
    
8. The large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)

1. Line or stuff with soft material
   "pad a bra";
   - fill out
    
2. Add padding to
   "pad the seat of the chair";
   - bolster
    
3. Make appear better or greater (in power, wealth, quality, etc.) than reality
   - embroider, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise [Brit], blow up, dramatize, dramatise [Brit]
    
4. Walk quietly, esp. barefoot or with soft footwear
    
5. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
   "Mules padded in a circle around a grindstone";
   - slog, footslog, plod, trudge, tramp, tromp [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: padded, padding, pads

Type of: amplify, anatomical structure, block, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, cushioning, exaggerate, fill, fill up, foliage, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, leaf, leafage, living quarters, magnify, overdraw, overstate, padding, paper, platform, quarters, structure, stuff, walk

Part of: aquatic plant, finger, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, launching site, paw, water plant

Encyclopedia: Pad, West Virginia