cushion
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
- 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.
- Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact: A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- 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.
- Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact: The pillow used in making bone lace.
- Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact: An engraver's pad.
- Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact: The rubber of an electrical machine.
- Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact: A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- 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 objective.
- 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 objective: 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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