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padding
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pæd??/
- Homophone: patting (General American)
Verb
padding
- present participle of pad
Noun
padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)
- Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
- (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
- (military, cryptography) 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.
- That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
Translations
References
Dupaningan Agta
Noun
paddíng
- wall
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bolster
English
Alternative forms
- boulster
- bowster, bouster, boster (Scotland)
Etymology
From Middle English bolster, bolstre, from Old English bolster (“pillow”), from Proto-Germanic *bulstraz, *bulstr? (“pillow, cushion”). Cognate with Scots bowster (“bolster”), West Frisian bulster (“mattress”), Dutch bolster (“husk, shell”), German Polster (“bolster, pillow, pad”), Swedish bolster (“soft mattress, bolster”), Icelandic bólstur (“pillow”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b??lst?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?bo?lst?/
Noun
bolster (plural bolsters)
- A large cushion or pillow.
- 1590–92, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act 4, scene 1:
- And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
This way the coverlet, another way the sheets.
- And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VII [Uniform ed., p. 84]:
- "Don’t you know how Turner spoils his pictures by introducing a man like a bolster in the foreground? Well, in actual life every landscape is spoilt by men of worse shapes still.”
- “You sound like a bolster with the stuffing out.” They laughed.
- 1590–92, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, act 4, scene 1:
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It?
- This arm shall be a bolster for thy head.
- 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It?
- (vehicles, agriculture) A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- Synonyms: cross-head, pillow
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- (architecture) The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of G. Francis to this entry?)
- (military, historical) A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
Synonyms
- Dutch wife
Translations
Verb
bolster (third-person singular simple present bolsters, present participle bolstering, simple past and past participle bolstered)
- (transitive, often figuratively) To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.
Translations
Anagrams
- Bortles, Strobel, Stroble, bolters, lobster, reblots, rebolts, trobles
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bolster, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bulstraz. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?l.st?r/
- Hyphenation: bol?ster
- Rhymes: -?lst?r
Noun
bolster m (plural bolsters, diminutive bolstertje n)
- a bur, a spiny cupule, often of a chestnut
Derived terms
- bolsteren
- ontbolsteren
Middle English
Alternative forms
- bolstre, bolstere, bowstur (northern)
Etymology
From Old English bolster, from Proto-Germanic *bulstraz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?lst?r/
Noun
bolster (plural bolsters)
- A soft stuffed bag to lie or lean on; a cushion or pillow.
- (rare) A pad; a piece of cushioning.
- (rare) A supporting piece of metal.
Descendants
- English: bolster
- Scots: bowster, bouster, boster
References
- “bolster, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-09-14.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bulstraz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bol.ster/, [?bo?.ster]
Noun
bolster m
- pillow
Declension
Synonyms
- pyle
- wangere
Derived terms
- bedbolster
- h?afodbolster
- hl?orbolster
Descendants
- Middle English: bolster, bolstre, bolstere, bowstur
- English: bolster
- Scots: bowster, bouster, boster
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish bulster, bolster, from Old Norse bólstr, bulstr, from Proto-Germanic *bulstraz, from Proto-Indo-European *b?el??- (“bag, pillow, paunch”). Compare Icelandic bólstur, Dutch bolster, German Polster and English bolster.
Noun
bolster n
- a bolster, a large cushion or pillow
Declension
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