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cardboard

[ kahrd-bawrd, -bohrd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

resembling cardboard, especially in flimsiness:
an apartment with cardboard walls.
not fully lifelike; shallow; two-dimensional:
a play with cardboard characters.

cardboard

/ ˈkɑːdˌbɔːd /

1. a thin stiff board made from paper pulp and used esp for making cartons
2. ( as modifier )
  cardboard boxes

First recorded in 1840–50; card ¹ + board

Host and guest pop and lock on cardboard—the only proper surface for breakdancing—and in no way did they have dancing doubles.

A heavy trowel is used to retrieve a mass of your chosen kind of ice cream from its tub and put it in the cardboard container.

From an old cardboard box, Li Wen drew a clear glass bottle filled with a dark brown liquid.

Back at the Coop, food is presented on heavy cardboard plates.

By the end of the day, six more bodies were found, each wrapped in clothing and blankets, each in its own cardboard box.

He further proposes to use it in the form of a solid cardboard as a roofing material for light structures.

The application is made in a paper machine, the pulp being allowed to flow over the cardboard.

On the stall are baby dolls with bodies made of grey cardboard, smiling after the manner of idols, monstrous and serene as they.

In doing so, to his dismay, he upset a couple of old cardboard boxes filled with letters, and they fell with some clatter.

It is true that it might have lain under the setting of the frame, hidden beneath the protecting cardboard mat.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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