Word Finder - pads

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A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.

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A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

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A soft, or small, cushion.

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A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.

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The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.

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Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.

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A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

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A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

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A sanitary napkin.

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A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

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A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.

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A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.

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A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.

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A keypad.

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A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.

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An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord"

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The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.

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A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.

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• synth pad

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A bed.

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A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.

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A prison cell.

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A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.

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A mousepad.

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The amount by which a signal has been reduced.

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A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

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To stuff.

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To furnish with a pad or padding.

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To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

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May 21, 2008, Austin American-Statesman

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To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

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to pad cloth

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To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

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A toad.

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A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track. See footpad.

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An easy-paced horse; a padnag.

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A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.

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A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.

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To travel along (a road, path etc.).

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To travel on foot.

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To wear a path by walking.

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To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.

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To practise highway robbery.

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The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.

Dan touched his thumb to the thumb pads, and her chains fell away.

The hind feet have six pads on their inferior surfaces, and the colour is dull grizzled brown above and greyish white below.

Dwellings require careful construction, with thick walls and roofs of non-conducting material to keep out the heat-rays, and fans and punkahs are essential for the promotion of currents of air in the inhabited rooms. Personal protection, in the shape of thick pith topees, or cork helmets, and spinal pads, is necessary in the hot months, the clothing being light and loose and not too thin.

The pads of their feet are often itchy, puffy and inflamed.

There is a supply of spare shin pads should they be needed.

The cat's nose and the pads of its feet are a lovely shade of lilac.

They derive their name of Tylopoda ("boss-footed") from the circumstance that the feet form large cushion-like pads, supporting the weight of the body, while the toes have broad nails on their upper surface only, instead of being encased in hoofs.

The tail is about half the length of the head and body, and the hind feet are long and powerful, although not webbed, and have five rounded pads on their lower surfaces.

Up till then such primitive means as pads of hemp or cloth steeped in oil had been employed.

The walls of the pyloric chamber bear a series of pads and ridges beset with hairs and so disposed as to form a straining apparatus.

In the best examples this has been secured by bedding the stones near to the water face in somewhat finer mortar than the rest, and sometimes also by placing pads to fill the joints for several inches from the water face, so that the mortar was kept away from the face and was well held up to its work.

On the removal of the pads, or the cutting out of the face of the mortar where pads were not used, the vacant joint was gradually filled with almost dry mortar, a hammer and caulking tool being used to consolidate it.

A, A walking leg; p ' to p 4, Since the eye-stalks of Podophthalthe characteristic " pads "; f, mate Crustacea represent appendthe foot; cl', c1 2, the two ages, we are forced to the conclusion claws.

After many years the larva is transformed into the pupa or nymph, which is distinguishable principally by the shortness of its antennae and the presence of wing pads.

At the narrow distal end of the leg there are on the ventral surface three or four (rarely five) spiniferous pads, each of which is continued dorsally into a row of papillae.

With 23 to 25 pairs of claw-bearing legs, four spinous pads on the legs, and nephridial openings of legs 4 and 5 in the middle of the proximal pad or on its proximal side; feet with two primary papillae, one anterior and one posterior; outer jaw with two, inner jaw with two or three minor teeth at the base of the main tooth, separated by a diastema from the row of small teeth; crural glands present in the male only, in the two pairs of legs preceding the generative opening; coxal glands present.

They had six legs with little pads for feet instead of toes and claws, a delicate snout not quite the length of an anteater's lined with fine hairs and tiny teeth used to vacuum up mold, dust, and dirt that was its main food source, and an odd habit of climbing walls with hidden suckers in its padded feet.

The first is to fit aftermarket low dust brake pads.

Vehicles Some vehicle brake shoes or pads contain asbestos.

The deck itself is interspersed with end grain balsa for additional rigidity and also has substantial plywood pads in way of all deck fittings.

The assembly pads are supported on concrete pillars that connect directly with the sandstone bedrock below.

Spill control equipment including, spill pillows, absorbent pads, drum berms, drain plugs, hand pumps, neutralization solutions.

These chrome plated storage baskets simply stick to your tiles with the use of cleverly concealed suction pads - no holes needed!

Separate scatter cushions are also available, supplied with plump fiber fill pads.

These pads have a very slight cutting action that allows them to correct most defects without removing too much paint.

Their frame pads incorporate twin eyelets, through which their own elasticated toggle loops pass to provide a strong yet safe attachment.

Brake pads front and rear are about £ 49 and £ 50 respectively and a replacement headlamp is close to £ 70.

The hollow holdfast of furbelows, covered in suction pads.

At night I took two of these pads to bed with me, together with a full Thermos jug.

Strategies include mechanical locking with lead ' fishtails ' and die pad perforations, and improving the overall package symmetry by using depressed pads.

But aside from all else, they're excellent quality pads designed with the working mentalist in mind.

This new capability allows for measurement of sub-100 micron test pads in chips.

First the solder on the pads melts and wets the pad and the ball surface; then the whole ball becomes molten.

Race Clutch Disk This consists of a steel hub riveted to a steel disk on which eight sintered copper pads are installed.

You simply empty it the same number of times that you usually replace your tampons or sanitary pads.

She recalled there being only 3 incontinence pads available for the home for the night.

Nose leather and paw pads should be the same color as the points.

The customer needs to check first of all that the brake pads are not worn out.

One could hear the swift, soft, bounding steps coming along the corridor, like the pads of a fleeing and leaping panther.

Allows the caliper piston to be wound back for the fitting of new brake pads.

Frame Pads - 25mm thick closed cell polyethylene foam with nylon covering.

The mink rafts contain clay pads which are used to take prints of animals visiting the floating rafts.

Soft pads play gentle staccato chord, bright guitars strum hip-swaying rhythms and occasional steps into darker moods provide dramatic interludes.

Roland TD-8 which is all mesh pads.

Pump the pedal a few times to force the brake pads to squeeze the brake rotors.

Just click the play button on any of the control pads to hear a song.

But no, they're leather pads, just rather sticky ones.

Suitable from birth, this great value twin stroller comes in black and has 5 position recline seats and harness pads for comfort.

Surf wax and traction pads are used to keep a surf wax and traction pads are used to keep a surfers feet from slipping off the deck of the board.

The pads are fully lined and wool flocked with fixed arch and proper terrets.