cushion

IPA: kˈʊʃʌn

A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
(Commonwealth) A throw pillow.
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.
A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
(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.
The pillow used in making bone lace.
An engraver's pad.
(historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
(historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
(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.
(finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
(historical) The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.

Examples of "cushion" in Sentences

When the cushion is the right size, cast off your knitting.
"You are over-using the word cushion," protests Clare Davies.
I say this guys rear end should look like a pin cushion at the end of the day.
This cushion is covered with a large white veil, which represents the Shroud of His burial.
It can be surrounded by futons or soft cushions depending where I am, in Bangalore the cushion is a must but in Mumbai futon is the right choice.
Though when a cushion is applied to a smooth surfaced glass, so as to intermix their electric atmospheres, the vitreous ether of the cushion is attracted by the resinous ether combined with the glass; but does not intermix with it, but only adheres to it: and as the glass turns round, the vitreous electric atmosphere stands on the solid resinous electric ether combined with the glass; and is taken away by the metallic points of the prime conductor.