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Pad can be an interjection, a noun or a verb.
pad used as an interjection:
- Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
"I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor."
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
pad used as a 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.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- An animal's foot or paw.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A sanitary napkin.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- a batsman's leg pad that protects it from damage when hit by the ball
- 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.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A keypad.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A bed.
- A place of residence.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A toad.
- A footpath; a road or track.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
pad used as a verb:
- To stuff.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
"The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends." - To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
"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.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is pad?
- Interjection usage: I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.
- Verb usage: The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.
- Verb usage: "Obama pads delegate lead ... with win in key western state." Austin American-Statesman newspaper, May 21, 2008.
- Verb usage: to pad cloth
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pad are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of pad, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
