pad

pad is a 3-letter English word with 30 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A footpath; a road. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 30 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A footpath; a road.
2. noun. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
3. noun. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.
4. noun. The act of robbing on the highway.
5. transitive verb. To travel upon foot; to tread.
6. intransitive verb. To travel heavily or slowly.
7. intransitive verb. To rob on foot.
8. intransitive verb. To wear a path by walking.
9. noun. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
10. noun. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
11. noun. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
12. noun. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
13. noun. A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
14. noun. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
15. noun. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
16. noun. A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
17. noun. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
18. transitive verb. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
19. transitive verb. To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
20. noun. the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger
21. noun. temporary living quarters

    Synonyms: diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings

22. noun. a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched

    Synonyms: launchpad

23. noun. a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort
24. noun. a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp

    Synonyms: inkpad

25. noun. the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)
26. noun. a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge

    Synonyms: tablet

27. verb. add padding to

    "pad the seat of the chair"

    Synonyms: bolster

28. verb. add details to

    Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard

29. verb. line or stuff with soft material

    "pad a bra"

30. verb. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

    "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"

    Synonyms: footslog, plod, slog, tramp, trudge

Synonyms

diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings, launchpad, inkpad, tablet, bolster, aggrandise, aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, footslog, plod, slog, tramp, trudge

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pad:

adp, dap, pda

Common word forms

pads, padded, padder, padding

Words from these letters

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