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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cardboard
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
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box.
▪ They were used to store trunks, suitcases, large misshapen cardboard boxes and broken furniture.
▪ Two of them consisted of a large cardboard box with a lid.
▪ Our cherished records were enfolded by large new cardboard boxes tied with pink tape and marked with inscrutable computer codes.
▪ Alternatively, make a frame out of a large piece of cardboard.
▪ At the base of the wardrobe, buried beneath pairs of shoes, he discovered a large cardboard carton.
▪ There was a large cardboard box on the floor next to the fridge.
▪ Once satisfied, I got a large cardboard carton and broke it open so that the development could be accurately drawn.
■ NOUN
box
▪ Her pups were now piled together in a cardboard box lined with an old woollen jumper and several sheets of brown paper.
▪ My feet are tangled in old cans and cardboard boxes.
▪ His gift of stolen peonies was discarded in a cardboard box, and she did not seem to mind at all.
▪ There remained only a cardboard box lodged behind where the journals had been.
▪ He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others.
▪ To make one, fill a cardboard box with sand or other heavy material.
▪ He rested his hand on a cardboard box behind the tea chest and pushed himself up.
▪ McGowan walked to the car and returned with the long canvas bag and the cardboard box.
■ VERB
carry
▪ From the kitchens came the new master, carrying an armful of cardboard chain-mail.
▪ A procession of Treasure Island pirates carrying cardboard boxes bulging with beer bottles were already noisily boarding the coach.
cut
▪ This is cut from cardboard and should be matt black on the inside, at least.
▪ Elephant pizzas Cut a template of cardboard into the shape of an elephant's head.
make
▪ You can also use a horn or make one up out of cardboard.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By night it is lined with ragged figures, sleeping on cardboard or scraps of bubble-wrap.
▪ She fed the little slips of cardboard one by one into its grinding jaws.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
box
▪ Next to me a lady with a perforated cardboard box.
▪ He has been seen in the square scooping the birds into a cardboard box 40 at a time.
▪ In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
▪ They sat on bedrolls or collapsed cardboard boxes along Park Boulevard.
▪ We unload the flattened cardboard boxes and other packing material.
▪ Mrs Vanya came back in just a few moments, carrying a very large white cardboard box.
▪ In the center of the room sat a stack of cardboard boxes that had once held equipment.
▪ He opened the cardboard box and took out each item, greeting each like an old friend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most of these romantic novels are full of cardboard characters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Frank Gauci steps off the Callisto into the coldest winter ever clutching a cardboard suitcase.
▪ He put the papers into a cardboard folder and tied it with a red ribbon.
▪ In one street, the pavement is stacked with cardboard boxes of Toshiba television sets.
▪ The cedar lining that once protected fine cigars from deteriorating is equally efficacious at preserving cardboard rectangles from insect damage.
▪ Then there's the furniture, notably the super-curvy bentwood chairs for Knoll and the cardboard stuff for Vitra.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cardboard

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cardboard

1848, from card (n.) + board (n.1). Figurative sense is from 1893. An earlier word for the same stuff was card paper (1777).

Wiktionary
cardboard

a. Made of or resembling cardboard. n. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

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WordNet
cardboard

  1. adj. resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness; "apartments with cardboard walls" [syn: flimsy]

  2. without substance; "cardboard caricatures of historical figures" [syn: unlifelike]

  3. n. a stiff moderately thick paper [syn: composition board]

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Wikipedia
Cardboard

Cardboard is a generic term for a heavy-duty paper of various strengths, ranging from a simple arrangement of a single thick sheet of paper to complex configurations featuring multiple corrugated and uncorrugated layers.

Despite widespread use in general English and French, the term is deprecated in business and industry. Material producers, container manufacturers, packaging engineers, and standards organizations, try to use more specific terminology. There is still no complete and uniform usage. Often the term "cardboard" is avoided because it does not define any particular material.

Cardboard (disambiguation)

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, often used for making corrugated boxes
    • Display board, Poster board
    • Paperboard, a paper-based material often used for folding cartons, set-up boxes, carded packaging, etc.
      • Containerboard
      • Folding boxboard
      • Solid bleached board
      • Solid unbleached board
      • White lined chipboard
  • The Cardboards, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania band of the 1970s and 1980s
  • Cardboard record, a type of cheaply made phonograph record made of plastic-coated thin paperboard
  • Cardboard, a graphic novel by Doug TenNapel
  • Pycnanthus angolensis, a tree species
  • Google Cardboard, a smartphone mount supporting virtual reality visualization
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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.