different between padding vs stuffing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæd??/
• Homophone: patting (General American)

Verb

padding

1. present participle of pad

Noun

padding (countable and uncountable, plural paddings)

1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
2. (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
3. (military, cryptography) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
4. Anything of little value used to fill up space.

   That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.

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References

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

paddíng

1. wall

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?f??/
• Rhymes: -?f??

Verb

stuffing

1. present participle of stuff

Noun

stuffing (countable and uncountable, plural stuffings)

1. The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
2. Any of many food items used to stuff another.

   stuffing for a Christmas turkey

3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
4. (Internet) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.
5. (US, finance, law) A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.

Coordinate terms

• (matter used to stuff hollow objects): filling, oakum, packaging, packing, padding
• (internet): SEO

Derived terms

• antistuffing
• knock the stuffing out of

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