different between cover vs pad

English

Etymology

From Middle English coveren, borrowed from Old French covrir, cueuvrir (modern French couvrir), from Late Latin coperire, from Latin cooperi? (“I cover completely”), from co- (intensive prefix) + operi? (“I close, cover”). Displaced native Middle English thecchen and bethecchen (“to cover”) (from Old English þeccan, beþeccan (“to cover”)), Middle English helen, (over)helen, (for)helen (“to cover, conceal”) (from Old English helan (“to conceal, cover, hide”)), Middle English wrien, (be)wreon (“to cover”) (from Old English (be)wr?on (“to cover”)), Middle English hodren, hothren (“to cover up”) (from Low German hudren (“to cover up”)).

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the original sense of the verb and noun cover was “hide from view” as in its cognate covert. Except in the limited sense of “cover again,” the word recover is unrelated and is cognate with recuperate. Cognate with Spanish cubrir (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?v?/
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)

Noun

cover (countable and uncountable, plural covers)

1. A lid.
2. (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.

3. The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
4. The top sheet of a bed.
5. A cloth, usually fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa to protect it from dust, rain, etc. when not in use.
6. A cover charge.

7. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.

8. (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
9. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
10. (topology) A set (more often known as a family) of sets, whose union contains the given set.

11. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
12. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
13. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
14. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
15. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
16. (dated) A swindler's confederate.
17. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

18. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
19. (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hijazi Arabic: ?????? (kavar)

Translations

Adjective

cover (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
2. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.

Translations

Verb

cover (third-person singular simple present covers, present participle covering, simple past and past participle covered)

1. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

2. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.

   • A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
3. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

4. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.

5. (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
6. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
   • 1842, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy

     the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland

7. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.

8. To deal with or include someone or something.
   • 2010 (publication date), "Contributors", Discover, ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:

     Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist, The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired.

9. To be enough money for.

10. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.

11. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.

12. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
13. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
14. To provide insurance coverage for.

15. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).

    Synonym: impregnate

16. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).

17. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
18. (sports) To defend a particular player or area.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cover.

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: covern
• Danish: lave en cover

Translations

Anagrams

• corve

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.v?r/, /?k?.v?r/
• Hyphenation: co?ver

Noun

cover m (plural covers, diminutive covertje n)

1. A cover, cover song, cover version (rerecording of a previously recorded song, typically by a different artist).
2. A cover, the front of a magazine or of the package of a storage medium.

Derived terms

• coveren
• coverversie

Finnish

Etymology

From English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?er/, [?ko??e?r]

Noun

cover

1. cover, cover version, cover song (rerecording of a previously recorded song)

Declension

Synonyms

• koveri, coverversio

French

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m (plural covers)

1. (colloquial) cover (rerecording)

German

Verb

cover

1. inflection of covern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Polish

Etymology

From English cover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.v?r/, /?ka.v?r/

Noun

cover m inan

1. (music) cover version (rerecording of a song)

Declension

Further reading

• cover in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• cover in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m or f (rare) (plural coveres)

1. (music) cover version (rerecording of a song by another musician or group)

   Synonym: versão cover

Spanish

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover m (plural covers)

1. cover, cover version

Swedish

Etymology

From English cover.

Noun

cover c

1. (music) cover, cover song

Usage notes

The plural of this word could also be covers.

Declension

Derived terms

• coverband

References

• cover in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæd/
• Hyphenation: pad
• Rhymes: -æd

Etymology 1

1554, "bundle of straw to lie on", probably from Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
2. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
3. A soft, or small, cushion.
4. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
5. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
6. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
7. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
8. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
9. A sanitary napkin.
10. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
11. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
12. 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.
13. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
14. A keypad.
15. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
16. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
17. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
18. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.

    Synonym: synth pad

19. (US, slang) A bed.
20. (colloquial) A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
21. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
22. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
23. A mousepad.
24. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
25. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
    • 1875, William Clark Russell, Jilted – Or My Uncle's Scheme

      let us at least trust that the hair-pins will do their duty, and maintain the respectability of passion by holding the pads and puffs and frizettes in their proper places.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• synth pad

Translations

Verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

1. (transitive) To stuff.
2. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
3. (transitive) To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

4. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

5. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

Derived terms

• well-padded

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pade, padde, from Old English padde, from Proto-Germanic *padd? (“toad”). Cognate with Dutch pad, German Low German Pad (“toad”), dialectal German Padde, Danish padde, Swedish padda, Icelandic padda (“toad”), and possibly to English paddle.

Alternative forms

• padde

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.

Derived terms

• paddock
• padstool
• shelpad

Etymology 3

From Dutch pad or Middle Low German pat (“path”). Doublet of path.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. See footpad.
2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

     an abbot on an ambling pad

3. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
   • 1720, John Gay, "Fables", in Poems on Several Occasions

     A Pad came pacing down the way :
     The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue ,
     Upon the passing trav'ler sprung

Derived terms

• on the pad

Etymology 4

Perhaps an alteration of ped.

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.

Etymology 5

Probably partly from Middle Low German [Term?], partly imitative. Some senses possibly influenced by pad (“soft part of an animal's foot”, noun).

Verb

pad (third-person singular simple present pads, present participle padding, simple past and past participle padded)

1. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
   • 1727, William Somervile, The Fortune Hunter

     Padding the streets for half a crown.

2. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
3. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII

     Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

4. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

     Their feet padded softly on the ground, and they crept quite close to him, twitching their noses, while the Rabbit stared hard to see which side the clockwork stuck out...

5. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
   • 1689, Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions

     Their chief Argument is, That they never saw any Witches, therefore there are none. Just as if you or I should say, We never met with any Robbers on the Road, therefore there never was any Padding there.

Translations

Etymology 6

Probably imitative, perhaps related to or influenced by Etymology 5, above.

Interjection

pad

1. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.

   I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.

Translations

Noun

pad (plural pads)

1. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

Translations

Derived terms

• padless

References

• Pad on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ADP, APD, DPA, PDA, dap

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pad.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p?t]

Noun

pad (plural paaie, diminutive paadjie)

1. path; way; street

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t/
• Hyphenation: pad
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pat, from Old Dutch path, from Proto-Germanic *paþaz (“path”). Cognate with English path, West Frisian paad and German Pfad.

Noun

pad n (plural paden, diminutive paadje n)

1. path (narrow road, usually unpaved)

Derived terms

• bergpad
• bospad
• duinpad
• fietspad
• gangpad
• grindpad
• hazenpad
• kerkpad
• kiezelpad
• modderpad
• olifantenpad
• padvinder
• ruiterpad
• schelpenpad
• tuinpad
• voetpad
• wandelpad
• zandpad
• zijpad

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pad

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch padde, pedde, from Proto-Germanic *padd? (“toad”). Cognate with Old English padde (compare English paddock), Old Norse padda (Swedish padda, Danish/Norwegian padde).

Noun

pad f (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

1. toad (an amphibian of the order Anura similar to a frog with shorter legs and more ragged skin)

Derived terms

• bruine pad
• donderpad
• gewone pad
• groene pad
• knoflookpad
• paddenstoel
• paddentrek
• reuzenpad
• rugstreeppad
• schildpad
• Surinaamse pad
• vuurbuikpad
• vuurpad

Descendants

• Afrikaans: padda

Etymology 3

Noun

pad c (plural padden, diminutive padje n)

1. (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axle of the wheel; dropout.

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pod.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?d]
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

pad (plural padok)

1. bench
2. (education) desk (of students in school, traditionally built together with the seats)

   Synonym: iskolapad

3. (religion) pew (in a church)
4. (law) dock (of the defendant, in court), stand (of a witness, in court)
5. (dialectal) attic, loft

   Synonym: padlás

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• pad in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pâ?d/

Noun

p?d m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. fall

Declension

Related terms

• p?sti

Volapük

Noun

pad (nominative plural pads)

1. page

Declension