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COMPOSITION BOARD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A stiff moderately thick paper
Synonyms:
cardboard; composition board
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("composition board" 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 "composition board"):
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)
