Word Finder - pad

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A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.

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A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

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A soft, or small, cushion.

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A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.

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The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.

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Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.

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A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

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A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

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A sanitary napkin.

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A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

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A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.

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A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.

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A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.

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A keypad.

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A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.

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An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"

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The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.

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A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.

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• synth pad

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A bed.

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A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.

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A prison cell.

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A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.

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A mousepad.

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The amount by which a signal has been reduced.

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A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

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To stuff.

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To furnish with a pad or padding.

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To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

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May 21, 2008, Austin American-Statesman

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To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

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to pad cloth

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To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

She handed me a pad and pencil.

She leaned forward and slapped the pad, and Elise's grim face lit up the central screen.

Digging a note pad out of her purse, she labored over a note.

The access pad was useless, the clothing unit jammed, the communication monitor too covered with handprints from her searching to work right.

She held up her pad of copious notes.

She found a pad and pen on his desk.

I've been living in the bachelor pad with the guys for three months now.

She dug through one and withdrew a thick pad of paper and pack of pencils.

He flicked his nail against the pad of his thumb.

Jackson rolled his eyes as Sarah grabbed a pad of paper and donned her director's face.

The intervertebral joints are further complicated by the interposition of a cartilaginous or fibrous pad or ring.

I pulled out a pad and pencil, for affect.

She spotted the maroon drops on the pad of one thumb and drew his hand up to her lips.

Darkyn flicked a nail against the pad of his thumb.

She trotted to the bottom and waved her band before the access pad, waiting as the stone door opened.

The access pad appeared as though it had been shot with a laser gun; it was blackened and melted.

When he returned, Fred was holding down a pad of paper with his elbow and writing with his free hand.

Selyn hurried across the room to a pad of paper and pen that Wynn had clearly left behind, if his tight writing on the back cover was any indication.

He withdrew a note pad, licked his pencil, and scrunched up his eyes in deep concentration.

It took him a full day to realize she didn't know how to exit her room, that her intent at disassembling the access pad had been to make it work for her.

He tore a sheet of paper from Fred's pad and scribbled the number.

The boy took his small note pad from his back pocket and carefully wrote, "What happened to Annie?"

I've got one more pad of scripts.

The pad of his thumb traced across her lower lip.

He showed it to me but he wrote on his pad it was yours and he just borrowed it 'cause you left it around.

A pile of burned matches on the stove pad suggested a problem.

Fred made a note on his pad.

Fred nodded and began writing on his pad.

She waved her wrist before the access pad, but once more, the warrior prevented the door from opening.

He motioned to a glowing access pad.

Rhyn listened to his brother pad away in the soft sand.  He'd spent thousands of years in Hell wishing to be dead-dead.  Tomorrow, he'd have his chance.

No impression of the address would be left on the pad this way.

These diapers are flat squares of cotton (or bamboo, hemp, or wool) folded into a kind of pad that gets inserted into a diaper cover.

After a surprised pause, she waved her bracelet in front of the internal access pad.

He nodded to his advisor, who waved his wrist before the access pad.

He stopped at the opposite side of the table, within reach if he chose, which she suspected he would if she so much as flinched toward the access pad.

Excited and nervous, Kiera crossed to it and waved her armband over the access pad.

Fred left the room and returned with a pencil and pad.

She tossed the fuel in and slammed the door before sparks could hop out on the stove pad.

Nope. Just told the commo guy he wouldn't ever see the light of day again if he touched the commo pad.

He had a crowd control baton the size of her hand that expanded with a touch to the thumb pad.

Fred growled, as he added more notes to his pad.

Fred wrote the number on his note pad.

Mrs. Glass's number was on the telephone pad.

This pad varies much; it is morphologically the homologue of the pair of basiventral elements which by their lateral extension give origin to the corresponding ribs.

Sometimes the pad is reduced to a ventral semi-ring or meniscus; it retains its largest almost original shape and size in the second vertebra, the axis or epistropheus, where it forms a separately ossifying piece which connects, and coossifies with, the odontoid process (the centrum of the atlas) and the centrum of the second vertebra.

The fifth (distal) tarsal segment carries a median adhesive pad - the pulvillus - on either side of which is a claw.

It is thus used as the name of a surgical appliance, a belt with an elastic spring keeping in place a pad used as a support in cases of hernia.

The simplest kind was a pad or sole of leather or papyrus bound to the foot by two straps, one passing over the instep, the other between the toes.

In all printing the paper is laid on the upper surface of the block, and the impression rubbed off with a circular pad, composed of twisted cord within a covering of paper cloth and bamboo-leaf, and called the baren.