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CARDBOARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stiff moderately thick paper
Synonyms:
cardboard; composition board
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cardboard" is a kind of...):
paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)
packing; packing material; wadding (any material used especially to protect something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cardboard"):
binder's board; binder board (a cardboard used by bookbinders to make covers for books)
card (thin cardboard, usually rectangular)
corrugated board; corrugated cardboard (cardboard with corrugations (can be glued to flat cardboard on one or both sides))
paperboard; poster board; posterboard (a cardboard suitable for making posters)
pasteboard (stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper)
strawboard (a coarse yellow cardboard made of straw pulp)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without substance
Example:
cardboard caricatures of historical figures
Synonyms:
cardboard; unlifelike
Classified under:
Similar:
artificial; unreal (contrived by art rather than nature)
Context examples:
I went to my work as usual at ten o’clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Absolutely real—have pages and everything. I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they're absolutely real. Pages and—Here! Lemme show you.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
He found the house, a weather beaten cardboard bungalow at eighty a month, but at the last minute the firm ordered him to Washington and I went out to the country alone.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
