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Meaning
Noun
●
In Commonwealth English & Bedding:
A
soft
mass
of
material
stuffed
into a
cloth
bag
, used for
comfort
or support.
A
throw
pillow.
●
A
soft
mass
of
material
stuffed
into a
cloth
bag
, used for
comfort
or support.
A
thin
,
flat
pad
used on
hard
chairs
and sometimes
toilet
seats.
●
Something
acting
as a
cushion
, especially to
absorb
a
shock
or impact.
A
pad
on which
gilders
cut
gold
leaf.
A
mass
of
steam
in the end
of the
cylinder
of a
steam engine
to
receive
the impact of the piston.
An engraver's pad.
The
rubber
of an
electrical
machine.
A
pad
supporting
a woman's hair.
●
In Billiards, Snooker & Sports:
Something
acting
as a
cushion
, especially to
absorb
a
shock
or impact.
The
lip
around a
table
in
cue sports
which
absorbs
some of the impact of the
billiard balls
and
bounces
them back.
●
In Bedding:
Something
acting
as a
cushion
, especially to
absorb
a
shock
or impact.
The
pillow
used in making
bone
lace.
●
a
sufficient
quantity
of an
intangible
object
(like
points
or
minutes
) to
allow for
some of those
points
,
for example
, to be
lost
without
hurting
one's
chances
for
successfully
completing
an
object
ive.
●
In Finance:
a
sufficient
quantity
of an
intangible
object
(like
points
or
minutes
) to
allow for
some of those
points
,
for example
, to be
lost
without
hurting
one's
chances
for
successfully
completing
an
object
ive.
Money
kept in
reserve.
●
The
dancer
in the
cushion dance
who
currently
holds
the
cushion
, or the
dance
itself.
Verb
●
To
furnish
with cushions.
●
To
seat
or place on, or as on a cushion.
●
To
absorb
or
deaden
the impact of.
●
To
conceal
or
cover up
, as under a cushion.
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