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  1. noun A thin, cushionlike mass of soft material used to fill, to give shape, or to protect against jarring, scraping, or other injury.
  2. noun A flexible saddle without a frame.
  3. noun An ink-soaked cushion used to ink a rubber stamp.
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  • Marsden had been listening with his bald head bent over his datapad, and his stylus poised to make corrections on the transcription of the conversation that his pad was automatically making. —  Aeon One
  • He thought he would sleep like a log, but his pad was as cold as ice and he tossed and turned and didn't sleep a wink. —  Paul & Matt's Sports Attack
  • I found myself wishing for a d-pad, which is no good for a game on a device without one. —  IGN Complete
  • So the D-pad is the preferred method of controlling the program. —  Mobility Site
  • I dislike how the pad is a tad too large and how the face buttons are not as comfortable as other pads. —  Anime Nano!
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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Perhaps from Middle Dutch paden, tread a path, from pad, pat, path; see pent- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. A dial. variant of path, perhaps in part due to the cognate D. pad, a path: see path.
  2. from pad, n.
  3. Early modern English also padd, padde; from Middle English padde, pade (not in Anglo-Saxon the alleged Anglo-Saxon *padde resting on the early Middle English plural pades in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, under date of 1137, but written many years later) = Middle Dutch padde, pedde, Dutch padde, pad = Middle Low German padde, Low German pad (later G. dial, padde) = Icelandic padda = Swedish padda = Danish padde, a toad. Hence paddock, etc.
  4. Early modern English padde; perhaps a variant of pod (as nab of nob, etc.), in sense of ‘bag’: see pod. In def. 1 (c), cf. Middle Dutch pad, patte, the sole of the foot (Kilian); with this cf. French patte, paw (see patrol, paw).
  5. Also ped; from Middle English pedde; perhaps another use of pad. Hence pedder, pedler, pedlar, peddler, etc., and (prob.) in comp. padlock.
  6. Abbr. of pad-nag, pad-horse.
  7. apparently abbreviation of padder or *padman. Cf. footpad.
  8. from pad, n.; associated also with pad, v.
 

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