Cardboard
noun
A thick, stiff material made from layers of paper. It's often used for making boxes or other temporary structures.
She packed her things in a cardboard box.
Often appears as...
- cardboard box
- cardboard cutout
adjective
Not showing much depth, without emotions or individual qualities.
The characters in the book felt like cardboard characters, with no real depth or emotions.
Often appears as...
- cardboard character
- cardboard depiction
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Disapproving
noun
A thick, stiff material made from layers of paper. It's often used for making boxes or other temporary structures.
She packed her things in a cardboard box.
Often appears as...
- cardboard box
- cardboard cutout
adjective
Not showing much depth, without emotions or individual qualities.
The characters in the book felt like cardboard characters, with no real depth or emotions.
Often appears as...
- cardboard character
- cardboard depiction
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Context
Cardboard is often recycled; mentioning it might imply environmental awareness or concerns.
The company uses recycled cardboard to package its products.
Pro Tip 2/3Economical Material
Cardboard is cheap and widely used for packaging; it suggests a low-cost option.
They opted for cardboard packaging to reduce costs.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Use
Cardboard is often for temporary use, like moving houses or makeshift solutions.
We used a cardboard partition during the office renovation.
Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Context
Cardboard is often recycled; mentioning it might imply environmental awareness or concerns.
The company uses recycled cardboard to package its products.
Pro Tip 2/3Economical Material
Cardboard is cheap and widely used for packaging; it suggests a low-cost option.
They opted for cardboard packaging to reduce costs.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Use
Cardboard is often for temporary use, like moving houses or makeshift solutions.
We used a cardboard partition during the office renovation.
Pro Tip 1/3Environmental Context
Cardboard is often recycled; mentioning it might imply environmental awareness or concerns.
The company uses recycled cardboard to package its products.
Pro Tip 2/3Economical Material
Cardboard is cheap and widely used for packaging; it suggests a low-cost option.
They opted for cardboard packaging to reduce costs.
Pro Tip 3/3Temporary Use
Cardboard is often for temporary use, like moving houses or makeshift solutions.
We used a cardboard partition during the office renovation.
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My love letter to...
and they served ice cream from behind the counter in these giant, five-gallon, cardboard tubs. And someone told me -- I was eight years old -- someone told me that when they were done with those tubs, they washed them out and kept them in the back, and if you asked they would give you one. It took me a couple of weeks to work up the courage,
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Which country does the...
A psychopath is a person who, unfortunately for him or her, lacks the ability to really empathize with other human beings. When they look around, they don't see other human beings with deep, rich, three-dimensional personal lives and aims and ambitions. What they see is cardboard cutouts, and it's very sad and it's very lonely,
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Vermicomposting: How...
who don't burrow too deep, they're optimal feeders around room temperature, and they're well-suited to converting organic waste into usable fertilizer. Now, your worms might be vermin, but they need a comfortable space to live and some bedding materials, either shredded paper or cardboard, some moisture,
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Watch the Total Solar...
right you need a box a box a cardboard or sorry a cereal box is actually really because it's right side and so what you're gonna do is you're increase your box yes you need a screwdriver foil is helpful and a pair of scissors and also some white paper because I think this is the important part
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Pointing to the future...
in which a toothpaste cap on a cardboard box becomes a laser. The beam splitters and lenses are represented by physical objects, and the system projects down the laser beam path. So you've got an interface that has no interface. You operate the world as you operate the real world,
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Small-business solutions...
cardboard or hundred thousand cardboard doesn't matter I heard stories today you know a friend of mine told me he said he went to college he went to an incubator and this he saw his company in defense he was a great company no sanitary pad reusable sanitary pad well what happens
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Tavi Gevinson: A teen...
and it's seen as power. But they're not strong characters who happen to be female. They're completely flat, and they're basically cardboard characters. The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves
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6 ways mushrooms can...
And then you put tree seeds in here, and then you end up growing -- potentially -- an old-growth forest from a cardboard box. I want to reinvent the delivery system, and the use of cardboard around the world, so they become ecological footprints.
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Tim Harford: Trial,...
It falls to the floor. You scoop it up. You put it in cardboard boxes. You sell it at a supermarket. You make lots of money. How do you design that nozzle? It turns out to be very important. Now if you ascribe to the God complex,
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America Ferrera: My...
Not cardboard cutouts that stood in the background of someone else's. But when I dared to say that to my manager -- that's the person I pay to help me find opportunity -- his response was,
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My love letter to...
and they served ice cream from behind the counter in these giant, five-gallon, cardboard tubs. And someone told me -- I was eight years old -- someone told me that when they were done with those tubs, they washed them out and kept them in the back, and if you asked they would give you one. It took me a couple of weeks to work up the courage,
Video examples
Which country does the...
A psychopath is a person who, unfortunately for him or her, lacks the ability to really empathize with other human beings. When they look around, they don't see other human beings with deep, rich, three-dimensional personal lives and aims and ambitions. What they see is cardboard cutouts, and it's very sad and it's very lonely,
Video examples
Vermicomposting: How...
who don't burrow too deep, they're optimal feeders around room temperature, and they're well-suited to converting organic waste into usable fertilizer. Now, your worms might be vermin, but they need a comfortable space to live and some bedding materials, either shredded paper or cardboard, some moisture,
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
right you need a box a box a cardboard or sorry a cereal box is actually really because it's right side and so what you're gonna do is you're increase your box yes you need a screwdriver foil is helpful and a pair of scissors and also some white paper because I think this is the important part
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Pointing to the future...
in which a toothpaste cap on a cardboard box becomes a laser. The beam splitters and lenses are represented by physical objects, and the system projects down the laser beam path. So you've got an interface that has no interface. You operate the world as you operate the real world,
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Small-business solutions...
cardboard or hundred thousand cardboard doesn't matter I heard stories today you know a friend of mine told me he said he went to college he went to an incubator and this he saw his company in defense he was a great company no sanitary pad reusable sanitary pad well what happens
Video examples
Tavi Gevinson: A teen...
and it's seen as power. But they're not strong characters who happen to be female. They're completely flat, and they're basically cardboard characters. The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
And then you put tree seeds in here, and then you end up growing -- potentially -- an old-growth forest from a cardboard box. I want to reinvent the delivery system, and the use of cardboard around the world, so they become ecological footprints.
Video examples
Tim Harford: Trial,...
It falls to the floor. You scoop it up. You put it in cardboard boxes. You sell it at a supermarket. You make lots of money. How do you design that nozzle? It turns out to be very important. Now if you ascribe to the God complex,
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America Ferrera: My...
Not cardboard cutouts that stood in the background of someone else's. But when I dared to say that to my manager -- that's the person I pay to help me find opportunity -- his response was,
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Hilary Benn
British Politician
After all, does it make sense to be chucking things like glass, paper, cardboard, wood, metals, plastics, and food waste into holes in the ground? No, it doesn't; especially when someone will pay you good money to take them off your hands or, in the case of wood and food waste, when you can turn them into renewable energy.
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Ann Leckie
American Author
I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.
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Palmer Luckey
American Businessman
I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Chris Van Allsburg
American Author
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
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Erma Bombeck
American Journalist
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
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Perrie Edwards
English Singer
If you could still see yourself living in a cardboard box with somebody with no money then that is love you know, it's what's important.
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Larry Cohen
American Director
Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
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Jessica Lynch
American Soldier
I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.
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Michael Lee-Chin
Jamaican Businessman
My first playpen was a cardboard box.
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Hilary Benn
British Politician
After all, does it make sense to be chucking things like glass, paper, cardboard, wood, metals, plastics, and food waste into holes in the ground? No, it doesn't; especially when someone will pay you good money to take them off your hands or, in the case of wood and food waste, when you can turn them into renewable energy.
Quote examples
Ann Leckie
American Author
I love science fiction, and one of the things I love about it is that it's so very different. You can read stuff that's just fast-paced adventure, and the characters are cardboard, but who cares, because they're heroes, and we love it. And you can read stuff that's really deep character, and everything in between.
Quote examples
Palmer Luckey
American Businessman
I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Chris Van Allsburg
American Author
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.
Quote examples
Erma Bombeck
American Journalist
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
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Perrie Edwards
English Singer
If you could still see yourself living in a cardboard box with somebody with no money then that is love you know, it's what's important.
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Larry Cohen
American Director
Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.
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Howard Jacobson
British Novelist
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.
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Jessica Lynch
American Soldier
I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.
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Michael Lee-Chin
Jamaican Businessman
My first playpen was a cardboard box.
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