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Padding vs Batting - What's the difference?

padding | batting |

As verbs the difference between padding and batting

is that padding is while batting is .

As nouns the difference between padding and batting

is that padding is soft filling material used in cushions etc while batting is (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc or batting can be the act of someone who bats.

padding

English

Verb

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    • 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). .

    • References

    batting

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Noun

  • (sewing) cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc
  • special cotton for surgery.

    • Synonyms

    * bat, batt

    Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

  • the act of someone who bats
    • the battings of her eyelashes

    Verb

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