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Madding vs Padding - What's the difference?

madding | padding |

As verbs the difference between madding and padding

is that madding is while padding is .

As an adjective madding

is (archaic): affected with madness; raging; furious.

As a noun padding is

soft filling material used in cushions etc.

madding

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(head)
  • (archaic): Affected with madness; raging; furious.
    • Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. -Gray.
    The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. -Milton.

    Verb

    (head)
    • ----

    padding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia padding) (en noun)
  • Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  • (computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to the end of a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  • (military) Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or lengthJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006). .

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