padding
Because it is a word with a single syllable, padding is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofpadding
- To stuff.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
Example: "May 21, 2008, Austin American-Statesman"
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
Example: "to pad cloth"
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To travel on foot.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
- To practise highway robbery.
- 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.
Example: "That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding."
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