pad

launching pad (=launch pad)

pad a résumé; pad an expense account.

a pad of cotton wool.

to pad a cushion with wool

to pad out an article

he heard the pad of feet.

to pad out one's speech

Get a pad to lie on.

Elbow pads and knee pads are essential on a skateboard.

to put a pad under a plate

to pad out the shoulders of a jacket

teachers hated my Brillo-pad hairstyle.

to baffle the noise further, I pad the gunwales.

American footballers wear shoulder-pads for protection.

a pad of green lawn between two heathery steeps

I made a memo on my memo-pad to buy more coffee.

The child let his mother pad the chair.

I'm going over to his pad this evening.

n. a helicopter larding pad.

The dog hurt one of its pad when it stepped upon a thorny path.

And, for most, New Guinea was the launch pad.

You know, from your little pad? Script?

Mei-Mei! Tell him you forgot your pads!

And what about your mouse and your mouse pad?

At that point, you're given a cotton pad.

Instead of swapping out the pads in the pits...

Well, then let's get that prescription pad out.

I've got the mouse pad. I am all in.

They've you know, they've padded out their nests.

This is all that is left of her normal pad.