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Padding vs Stuffing - What's the difference?

padding | stuffing |

As verbs the difference between padding and stuffing

is that padding is present participle of lang=en while stuffing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between padding and stuffing

is that padding is soft filling material used in cushions etc while stuffing is the matter used to stuff flexible hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.

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). .
  • References

    stuffing

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (wikipedia stuffing)
  • The matter used to stuff flexible hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
  • Any of many food items used to stuff another.
  • stuffing for a Christmas turkey
  • A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
  • (internet) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.
  • A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.
  • Derived terms

    * antistuffing * knock the stuffing out