Definition of cardboard Cardboard

/kɑˈɹdbɔˌɹd/ - [kardbord] - card•board

We found 7 definitions of cardboard from 6 different sources.

What does cardboard mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: cardboard
cardboard - a stiff moderately thick paper
		composition board
		paper a medium for written communication; "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"
		packing material, wadding, packing any material used especially to protect something
		binder's board, binder board a cardboard used by bookbinders to make covers for books
		card one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes; "he collected cards and traded them with the other boys"
		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
Adjective cardboard, cardboarder, cardboardest
cardboard - without substance; "cardboard caricatures of historical figures"
		unlifelike

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Wiktionary

cardboard (Noun)
A wood- based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes and signs.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

cardboard (n.)
A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

cardboard
A stiff kind of paper often made up of several layers.

Wikipedia

Cardboard is a heavy wood-based type of paper, notable for its stiffness and durability. It was first invented in China some time in the 15th century, and is used for a wide variety of purposes. One of its more common uses is as a packaging material.

Cardboard boxes were first produced commercially in 1817 in England. Corrugated (also called pleated) paper was patented in England in 1856, used as a liner for tall hats, but corrugated cardboard would not be patented and used as a shipping material until December 20, 1871. The patent was issued to Albert Jones of New York City, New York for single-sided corrugated cardboard. Jones used the corrugated cardboard for wrapping bottles and glass lantern chimneys. The first machine for producing large quantities of corrugated cardboard was built in 1874 by G. Smyth, and in the same year Oliver Long improved upon Jones' design by inventing corrugated cardboard with liner sheets on both sides. This was now cardboard as we know it today.

The American Robert Gair invented the corrugated cardboard box in 1890, consisting of pre-cut flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes. Gair's invention, as with so many other great innovations, came about as a result of an accident; he was a Brooklyn printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870s, and while he was printing an order of seed bags a metal ruler normally used to crease bags shifted in position and cut the bag. Gair discovered that by cutting and creasing cardboard in one opera