English Dictionary

cushion

/ˈkʊʃən/

noun

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. / A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.

I like to sit on the cushion while reading.

意味（1）

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.

There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]

意味（2）

A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.

意味（5）

The pillow used in making bone lace.

意味（6）

An engraver's pad.

意味（7）

(historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.

意味（8）

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

意味（9）

(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.

意味（10）

(finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.

Interest coverage is important because it is an indicator of how much cushion a company has in making its interest payments.

意味（11）

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

But of these kind of second Courses I am the onely Cook; though yet those ordinary practises of our Feasts, as choosing a King, throwing Dice, drinking Healths, trouling it Round, dancing the Cushion and the like, were not invented by the seven Wise Men but my Self, and that too for the common pleasure of Mankind.