padding
/ˈpædɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding."
- "But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers."