Picture a box that is too big for what is inside it. The thing rattles, and the empty space is the problem. So you push soft material into every gap until nothing can move. Two things are true about that material: it goes where there is nothing, and it is not the thing you actually care about. Whenever you meet padding, look for a space that had to be filled — a box, a page, a line of data — and for the low-value stuff pushed in to fill it.
From the word’s history
Recorded in the source as pad + -ing, literally the filling of something with padding.
來源資料把這個字記成 pad（墊子）加上 -ing，可以想成字面上是「拿墊子去填」這件事。所以它一直是材料的總稱，不是某一塊墊子。
Wiktionary etymology_text in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:966452016): From pad + -ing.
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
paddingnoun詞源 2/ˈpædɪŋ/
- 1
Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
- 2
computingengineeringmathematicsExtra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
- 3
computingcryptographyengineeringExtraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
- 4
Anything of little value used to fill up space.
- That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding.
- But to my intense surprise, on getting down early the next morning, and eagerly opening the newspapers, there was not a word about the arrest! There was a column of mere padding about “The Styles Poisoning Case,” but nothing further. It was rather inexplicable, but I supposed that, for some reason or other, Japp wished to keep it out of the papers.
- 5
The process of mordanting a fabric.
- 6
A diaper.
- 7
obsoleteRobbing on a highway.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。