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Gift-box material
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cardboard
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Word definitions for cardboard in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardboard \Card"board`\ (k[aum]rd"b[=o]rd`), n. A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Made of or resembling cardboard. n. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, from card (n.) + board (n.1). Figurative sense is from 1893. An earlier word for the same stuff was card paper (1777).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cardboard may refer to: Cardboard , a generic term for a heavy-duty paper Binder's board Card stock , heavy paper used for making cards Corrugated fiberboard , a combination of paperboards, usually two flat liners and one inner fluted corrugated medium, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cardboard/wooden/plastic box ▪ We packed all our things into big cardboard boxes. cardboard city cardboard cut-out ▪ the sort of movie in which the characters are just cardboard cut-outs COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ...
Usage examples of cardboard.
A cardboard sign on a sawhorse read oficina with an arrowpointing down the hall.
She double-bagged the monkeys, spraying each bag with bleach, and then she loaded the bags into cardboard biohazard containers-hatboxes-and sprayed them to decon them.
The blitzed windows in the bedroom were neatly pasted up with cardboard, and the whole place was cleaner than one might have expected.
I have already requested the Master of the Buckhounds to provide me with cardboard.
The sliced vegetables were cooked to perfection, still crisp and crunchy, and I pushed them around in the little white cardboard box with my chopsticks, looking for more chicken.
I want to see a cardboard version of the Brewster Housing Project right smack in the middle of the diag in Ann Arbor.
Its stutter-step around two cardboard tiers of Cape cranberries was discouragingly deft.
Baldwin said that Folsom seemed to have been juggling his accounts, in cahoots with a supplier of cardboard.
Billy Camorra, twenty years old and six-feet-three, draped a lanky leg with garterless sock over his other knee, and began to fabricate a cardboard spitball, fishing around in his pockets for a rubber band.
She dubbed the three roaches Redbug, Greenbug and Yelbug, and made a cardboard box for them to hide in, and soon had them walking on her hands without fading.
Here Lord Grimthorpe inserted a circular window, the design being such as a child might make who was given a sheet of cardboard with a large circle drawn on it, which he was requested to cover symmetrically with a number of half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences.
And in one cardboard box he always had some of them little hoptoads, and in another cardboard box he always had some crickets-- sometimes I wonder how that kid could sleep at night, with all that racket in his room.
In housedress and sandals, Desdemona held her cardboard fan to her chest, shielding herself against the spectacle of life repeating itself.
Cover the bottle with a piece of cardboard, and bring the gas and the limewater in contact by shaking.
I broke off because Oban was now leading me through the open-plan office, which looked a bit as if a burglar had got in recently--filing cabinets with all their drawers open, files lying scattered on a table, cardboard boxes half filled with stained mugs.