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# cardboard

«cardboard» in Mova's school dictionary: **thick, stiff paper used to make boxes, packaging and models** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cardboard); adjective (cardboard)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cardboard is thick, stiff paper used to make boxes, packaging and models. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#m1)

2) A cardboard character (in a story) is one who seems flat and not real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology and art lessons, children make models from cardboard boxes and tubes. In science, cardboard is a material made from wood pulp; it is light and can be recycled, but it is weak when wet. In eco lessons, cardboard goes in the recycling. Phrases: «cardboard box», «cardboard tube», «corrugated cardboard», «cardboard cut-out».

### examples

- We made a castle from cardboard boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x1)
- Put the cardboard in the recycling bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x2)
- Cardboard goes soggy in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x3)
- The toy came in a cardboard box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x4)
- Cut out a cardboard circle for the wheel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x5)
- Corrugated cardboard has wavy layers inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x6)
- We used cardboard tubes for the telescopes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x7)
- The villain in the story was a cardboard character. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x8)
- Generals in full uniform leading regiments of cardboard soldiers passed by. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «a piece of cardboard» or «a cardboard box», not «a cardboard» for the material. One word. In science, cardboard is opaque and does not conduct electricity.

### In the corpora

- [Ask before using a cardboard box for a project, and recycle it after.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/244-building-and-making-things/23/)
- [Ask before using a cardboard box for a model, and recycle it afterwards to save resources.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/11/)
- [Cardboard looks weak, but its wavy middle layer makes it strong, like the arches under a bridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/6-pencils-paper-and-school-things/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cardboard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardboard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.