Padding vs. Margin — What's the Difference?

Padding is thin cushioned material sometimes added to clothes. Padding may also be referred to as batting when used as a layer in lining quilts or as a packaging or stuffing material.

The edge or border of something

The act of stuffing, filling, or lining.

An amount by which something is won

A soft material used to make pads or a pad.

Provide with an edge or border

Something added, especially extraneously or fraudulently

Deposit an amount of money with a broker as security for (an account or transaction)

Present participle of pad

An edge and the area immediately adjacent to it; a border.

Soft filling material used in cushions etc.

The blank space bordering the written or printed area on a page.

(computing) Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.

A limit in a condition or process, beyond or below which something is no longer possible or acceptable

Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.

An amount allowed beyond what is needed

Anything of little value used to fill up space.

A measure, quantity, or degree of difference

(obsolete) Robbing on a highway.

The minimum return that an enterprise may earn and still pay for itself.

The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

The difference between the cost and the selling price of securities or commodities.

The material with which anything is padded.

The difference between the market value of collateral and the face value of a loan.

Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

An amount in money, or represented by securities, deposited by a customer with a broker as a provision against loss on transactions made on account.

The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

(Botany) The border of a leaf.

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

To provide with a margin.

To be a margin to; border.

To inscribe or enter in the margin of a page.

To add margin to

To deposit margin for

To buy or hold (securities) by depositing or adding to a margin.

(typography) The edge of the paper, typically left blank when printing but sometimes used for annotations etc.

The edge or border of any flat surface.

(figuratively) The edge defining inclusion in or exclusion from a set or group.

A difference or ratio between results, characteristics, scores.

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.

(finance) The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production.

(finance) Collateral security deposited with a broker, to compensate the broker in the event of loss in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, commodities, etc.

That which is ancillary; periphery.

(transitive) To add a margin to.

(transitive) To enter (notes etc.) into the margin.

To trade (securities etc.) on margin (collateral).

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing.

The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.

Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty.

Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. It is usually less than the full value of the security purchased, in which case it may be qualified by the portion of the full value required to be deposited; as, to buy stocks on 50% margin.

To furnish with a margin.

To enter in the margin of a page.

The boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

The amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities

(finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold

The blank space that surrounds the text on a page

A strip near the boundary of an object;