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card·board  (kärdbôrd, -brd)
n.
A material similar to thick, stiff paper, that is made of pressed paper pulp or pasted sheets of paper. It is used for making cartons and signs, for example.
adj.
1. Made of or consisting of cardboard.
2.
a. Flimsy; insubstantial.
b. Lacking depth; superficial: a movie with only cardboard caricatures of its historical subjects.
cardboard
Noun
a thin stiff board made from paper pulp
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Noun1.cardboardcardboard - a stiff moderately thick paper      
composition board
binder board, binder's 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
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
Adj.1.cardboard - without substance; "cardboard caricatures of historical figures"
unlifelike
artificial, unreal - contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"
Translations
cardboard [ˈkɑːdbɔːd] n → cartón m; cartulina
cardboard [ˈkɑːdbɔːd] card n → carton m
cardboard [ˈkɑːdbɔːd] card n → Pappe f
cardboard [ˈkɑːdbɔːd] n → cartone m


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