Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A material similar to thick, stiff paper, that is made of pressed paper pulp or pasted sheets of paper. It is used for making cartons and signs, for example.
- adjective Made of or consisting of cardboard.
- adjective Flimsy; insubstantial.
- adjective Lacking depth; superficial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stiff kind of paper made by pasting together two or more thicknesses of paper, drying and pressing; a thin pasteboard.
- noun A thin board, with a short handle, 5 inches wide and 12 inches long, to which is fastened card-clothing for carding wool, cotton, and the like by hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
wood -based material resembling heavypaper , used in the manufacture ofboxes andsigns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without substance
- noun a stiff moderately thick paper
Etymologies
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Examples
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Barbara Olson, a passenger aboard the airliner doomed to be crashed into the Pentagon, was able to telephone her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson; she told him that the hijackers were armed with knives and what she called a cardboard cutter .
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Barbara Olson, a passenger aboard the airliner doomed to be crashed into the Pentagon, was able to telephone her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson; she told him that the hijackers were armed with knives and what she called a cardboard cutter .
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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I followed and found the short, bearded lineman cursing at a cup of what I call cardboard coffee that had spilled over his fingers while he was trying to wrest it from the machine.
While Other People Sleep Muller, Marcia 1998
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Several months later while visiting his office he gave me a plain cardboard box, on the outside was a shipping lable from Montana Rifle Company.
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Several months later while visiting his office he gave me a plain cardboard box, on the outside was a shipping lable from Montana Rifle Company.
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We have people living in cardboard boxes and starving to death and little kids crying out for homes and families and these people are worried about a housefly!!!!
I saw that the President got his first "kill" yesterday. The PETA-philes have their undies in a wad. 2009
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We have people living in cardboard boxes and starving to death and little kids crying out for homes and families and these people are worried about a housefly!!!!
I saw that the President got his first "kill" yesterday. The PETA-philes have their undies in a wad. 2009
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Maybe so but the cardboard is designed to withstand 140mph winds and when Hurricane Ike passed over the top of my house 16 months ago with 100mph winds, I slept through it and lost but a few shingles and a few tree limbs and a wooden fence.
Page 2 2010
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Toys come in cardboard boxes with nice plastic window-fronts that let perusers see the contents laid out in a way that is aesthetically pleasing, if not actually practical.
State of Play Ulysses 2009
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Toys come in cardboard boxes with nice plastic window-fronts that let perusers see the contents laid out in a way that is aesthetically pleasing, if not actually practical.
Archive 2009-12-01 Ulysses 2009
reesetee commented on the word cardboard
It speaks.
December 5, 2008