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Padding vs Upholstery - What's the difference?

padding | upholstery |

As nouns the difference between padding and upholstery

is that padding is soft filling material used in cushions etc while upholstery is the craft or business of upholstering furniture.

As a verb padding

is .

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

    upholstery

    Noun

    (-)
  • The craft or business of upholstering furniture.
  • The materials so used.