单词 | cardboard |
释义 | cardboard (once / 2599 pages) 1n 2adj The heavy, rigid paper that's used to make the boxes you use for mailing things is called cardboard. Cardboard also comes in handy for crafts and projects in classrooms. A lot of cardboard is made from several layers of thick paper, so that it's stiff and strong, and protects items inside cardboard boxes. You can also use the word cardboard to describe a fictional character who doesn't seem real: "The mother in the movie was such a cardboard character." In the 18th century, cardboard was known as card paper. WORD FAMILYcardboard: cardboards USAGE EXAMPLESIt was a damp cardboard box on which I’d drawn a wonky face in Biro. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) HAJJAH, Yemen — The infant was barely breathing when his uncle brought him to the hospital in a cardboard box. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Using cardboard, plaster, papier-mâché and tempera paints, Greely, 37, builds flimsy vignettes that seem to spring from a grade-schooler’s imagination. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 n a stiff moderately thick paper 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper composition board binder board, binder's board a cardboard used by bookbinders to make covers for books cardthin cardboard, usually rectangular corrugated board, corrugated cardboardcardboard with corrugations (can be glued to flat cardboard on one or both sides) paperboard, poster board, posterboarda cardboard suitable for making posters pasteboardstiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper strawboarda coarse yellow cardboard made of straw pulp timecarda card used with a time clock to record an employee's starting and quitting times each day millboardstout pasteboard used to bind books paper a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses packing, packing material, waddingany material used especially to protect something adj without substance cardboard caricatures of historical figures Syn unlifelike artificial, unreal contrived by art rather than nature |
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