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Definition of cardboard
: a material made from cellulose fiber (such as wood pulp) like paper but usually thicker
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Examples of cardboard in a Sentence
Cover the windows with cardboard.
Recent Examples of cardboard from the Web
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Trace two nickels onto a separate sheet of cardboard and cut out the pieces.
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The smoke firework is a cardboard tube that is about 1 inch in diameter and 5 inches long.
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Each colored smoke firework is a cardboard cylinder tube that measures about 1 inch in diameter and 5 inches long.
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Using pieces of felt for roads and avoiding cardboard box buildings, the quadcopters successfully navigated the adorable-sounding fake town set up by CSAIL.
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Items not eligible for shredding include cans, bottles, food wrappers, thick metal, copier/printer cartridges, corrugated cardboard and medical waste.
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Down the hall, in the room labeled PROFESSOR LOUNGES, a colleague from Kentucky slopped coffee into a cardboard cup, then sat, crossing his legs, to light a cigarette.
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Retrofitted with cardboard, strollers have been magicked into spaceships.
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Play dress-up or create a stage and scenery out of cardboard boxes, Bartolini suggests.
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First Known Use of cardboard
1831
cardboard
Definition of cardboard
1 : made of or as if of cardboard
2 : unreal, stereotyped a play with cardboard characters
Examples of cardboard in a Sentence
The play had cardboard characters.
First Known Use of cardboard
1852
CARDBOARD Defined for English Language Learners
cardboard
playDefinition of cardboard for English Language Learners
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: a stiff and thick kind of paper that is used especially for making boxes
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Definition of cardboard for English Language Learners
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: made out of cardboard
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: not acting or seeming real : having an obviously false or fake quality
CARDBOARD Defined for Kids
cardboard
playDefinition of cardboard for Students
: a stiff thick kind of paper used especially to make boxes
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See words that rhyme with cardboard Spanish Central: Translation of cardboard Nglish: Translation of cardboard for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of cardboard for Arabic speakers
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