CUSHIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cushioning mean? 

• CUSHIONING (noun)
  The noun CUSHIONING has 1 sense:

1. artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort

  Familiarity information: CUSHIONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUSHIONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cushioning; padding

Hypernyms ("cushioning" is a kind of...):

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Meronyms (substance of "cushioning"):

cotton; cotton fiber; cotton wool (soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state)

kapok; silk cotton; vegetable silk (a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation)

straw (plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cushioning"):

cushion (a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc.)

falsie (padding that is worn inside a brassiere)

pad (a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort)

stuffing (padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture)

Derivation:

cushion (protect from impact)

 Context examples 

A protective or cushioning material applied to a projecting or supporting surface of a device.

(Pad Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

As they do, they lose their cushioning ability.

(Herniated Disk, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more self- indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning; still he looked preciously grim, cushioning his massive head against the swelling back of his chair, and receiving the light of the fire on his granite- hewn features, and in his great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too—not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you, at least, of that feeling.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)