Pad \Pad\, v. t. To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.]
Padding the streets for half a crown. --Somerville.
Pad \Pad\, v. i. 1. To travel heavily or slowly. --Bunyan.
2. To rob on foot. [Obs.] --Cotton Mather.
3. To wear a path by walking. [Prov. Eng.]
Pad \Pad\, n. [Perh. akin to pod.] 1. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
2. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
3. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
4. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
5. (Zo["o]l.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
6. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
7. (Med.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
8. (Naut.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. --W. C. Russel.
9. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. [Eng.] --Simmonds.
10. A dwelling place, usually an apartment; one's living quarters; as, come over to my pad to watch the game. [Slang] [PJC]
11. A sum of money paid as a bribe to police officers, shared among them; also, the list of such officers receiving such a bribe. [PJC]
{Pad cloth}, a saddlecloth; a housing.
{Pad saddle}. See def. 3, above.
{Pad tree} (Harness Making), a piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. --Knight.
{on the pad}, receiving bribes; -- of police officers.
Pad \Pad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Padded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Padding}.] 1. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
2. (Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. --Ure.
pad \pad\ (p[a^]d), n. [D. pad. [root]21. See {Path}.] 1. A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. --Addison
An abbot on an ambling pad. --Tennyson.
3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a {footpad}. --Gay. --Byron.
4. The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]
They hope to make the repair on the pad and avoid rolling the shuttle back to a hangar, a move that could delay the flight by as much as two months.
Discovery is poised on one launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and Columbia was scheduled Sunday to be rolled out to another pad 1.6 miles away.
Discovery is poised on one launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and Columbia was scheduled Sunday to be rolled out to another pad 1.6 miles away.
Step on it: Interdome Inc. of Los Angeles offers a sheepskin pad that sticks to the car floor under the foot pedals, to prevent high heels from getting scuffed.
But a critic predicted the pad will never be used because Congress will refuse to pay for the costly military communications and surveillance satellites meant to be launched on Titan 4-Centaurs.
Authorities said the farm had a helicopter launching pad used for drug trafficking.
Engineers replaced the unit with one from space shuttle Columbia and began the testing of it on the launch pad Tuesday.
Columbia's launch had been scheduled for December, but was delayed to allow more time to correct problems on a renovated launch pad and to let workers go home for Christmas and New Year's.
Spurred by safety concerns, NASA will let only half the reporters covering the space shuttle Discovery get within 3.5 miles of the launch pad during blast-off.
New fuel lines were installed in Columbia, and the shuttle was moved back to the launch pad last month.
More than 200 guards on foot, in helicopters and boats patrolled the launch center for protesters who said they might try to stop the launch by infiltrating the launch zone and sitting on the launch pad.
"See Candy's clothes, see Aaron's pad, "See Aaron and Candy's castle, make the neighbors mad.
Mr. Vang comes for an interview in Bangkok armed with a yellow legal pad on which he's scribbled the crib note "We need democracy."
Finally, mission control in Houston radioed: "We're not going to make it." Over the pad, the sky was fairly clear.
The first draft of everything is written by hand on a note pad with a felt pen, usually in the train to or from London.
Space shuttle Atlantis was moved out to the launch pad today in preparation for a secret military flight next month.
Besides Best Foods, Grid has obtained large orders for its note pad from Southern Pacific Transportation Co. and several other companies.
The shuttle Discovery made its long-delayed trip to the launch pad Monday, a milestone in the rebirth of America's space program that was hailed by workers who streamed by the pad in an 18-mile-long line of cars.
The shuttle Discovery made its long-delayed trip to the launch pad Monday, a milestone in the rebirth of America's space program that was hailed by workers who streamed by the pad in an 18-mile-long line of cars.
Elsewhere, engineers seemed to be favoring cutting a hole in Discovery's rear cargo bay wall as the best approach to repair a small gas leak without having to take the shuttle off the launch pad.
Darden, who has not seen a UFO himself, told Rivers he has thought about abandoning the issue since the council overwhelmingly defeated his bill earlier this year to build a landing pad.
The astronauts met reporters Tuesday following a three-hour launch pad exercise in which they inspected Discovery and the communications satellite in its cargo bay and walked through a rehearsal of emergency escape procedures.
Few are willing to bet on where it all will lead, but most analysts and operatives are guessing that Democrats will pad their 258-to-176 majority by less than 10 seats.
Atlantis, still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will be rolled back to the hangar for repairs late this week.
Players can enter their number by phone pad or ask the computer for a "quick-pick," chosen at random by the computer.
"The tower personnel (the control tower) could not see the de-icing pad or the end of the runway because of low visibility," he said.
"Twenty years ago there was another spaceship, also called Columbia, and it was out at the pad," he said. "It had an important mission and an important payload.
Deployment of the satellite came 6 hours, 12 minutes after Discovery leaped from its seaside launch pad and raced out of view across a clear Florida sky in a launch that marked a successful beginning to NASA's plan to fly seven shuttles this year.
(The Teamsters were readmitted to the federation in October 1987.) In 1957, America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
As Michael Dukakis's campaign jet was approaching this city, the Massachusetts governor was shown a legal pad full of calculations showing where Democrats can hope to win electoral votes in the fall and where a running mate might help the ticket.