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# pasteboard

«pasteboard» in Mova's school dictionary: **thick, stiff paper or card, like the card used for boxes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (pasteboard, no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

Pasteboard is thick, stiff paper or card, like the card used for boxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteboard/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a flat, white, shiny surface compared to a floor; not a sense used in everyday talk

### examples

- We made a box from pasteboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteboard/#x1)
- The cover of the book was stiff pasteboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteboard/#x2)
- The floor was as white and shiny as pasteboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pasteboard/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

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