Cushion vs. Squab — What's the Difference?

A cushion is a soft bag of some ornamental material, usually stuffed with wool, hair, feathers, polyester staple fiber, non-woven material, or even paper torn into fragments. It may be used for sitting or kneeling upon, or to soften the hardness or angularity of a chair or couch.

In culinary terminology, squab is a baby domestic pigeon, typically under four weeks old, or its meat. The meat is widely described as tasting like dark chicken.

A pad or pillow with a soft filling, used for resting, reclining, or kneeling.

A young, newly hatched, or unfledged pigeon.

Something resilient used as a rest, support, or shock absorber.

A soft, thick cushion, as for a couch.

A mat placed or attached beneath carpeting to provide softness and increase durability.

A couch.

A padlike body part.

Young and undeveloped; newly hatched or unfledged

(Games) The rim bordering the playing surface of a billiard table.

A baby pigeon, dove, or chicken.

A pillow used in lacemaking.

The meat of such a baby bird used as food.

Something that mitigates or relieves an adverse effect

A baby rook.

To provide with a cushion

A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.

To place or seat on a cushion.

A person of a short, fat figure.

To cover or hide (something) with or as if with a cushion.

(obsolete) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

To protect from impacts or other disturbing effects

(transitive) To furnish with squabs, or cushions.

To mitigate the effects of; absorb the shock of

(transitive) To stuff thickly and sew through, the stitches being concealed by buttons, etc.

A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling on, resting one's head on etc.

Fat; thick; plump; bulky.

Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.

Unfledged; unfeathered.

A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.

Clumsy.

A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.

Curt; abrupt.

The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.

Shy; coy.

The pillow used in making bone lace.

(slang) With a heavy fall; plump.

An engraver's pad.

Fat; thick; plump; bulky.

(historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.

Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.

(historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.

A nestling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.

(figuratively) 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 person of a short, fat figure.

Money kept in reserve.

A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.

(historical) The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.

With a heavy fall; plump.

To furnish with cushions.

To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

Flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled

To absorb or deaden the impact of.

A soft padded sofa

To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

An unfledged pigeon

A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.

Short and fat

Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use

A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; - called also cushion dance.

To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.

To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

A mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses;

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

Protect from impact;