cardboardn.²adj.

Brit.

/ˈkɑːdbɔːd/, U.S.

/ˈkɑrdˌbɔrd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: card n.², board n.

Etymology: < card n.² + board n. Compare earlier cardpaper n.

A. n.²

Thick, stiff paper or pasteboard, used for making boxes, etc. Also (now rare): a piece of such material.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > cardboard

cardc1545

chart1704

cardpaper1707

cardboard1789

1789 Chester Chron. 18 Sept. Card-boards, Colours, Camel-hair Pencils, and every other necessary apparatus for the polite art of drawing.

1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall I. xviii. 325 The pencil..leaves an impression upon card-board that no amount of rubbing can efface.

1863 A. Wynter Subtle Brains 309 The rooms in which the portraits are gummed on cardboard and packed up.

1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxviii. 16 They are printed on stout, fine cardboard.

1935 Amer. Girl July 12/2 You might bind the sheets of cardboard to each other with metal paper-fasteners.

1973 I. Litvinov His Master's Voice (1989) ii. 25 A large unframed photograph, mounted on grey embossed cardboard.

2001 H. Collins No Smoke vi. 77 Who is going to pay five quid for a tiny piece of cardboard?

B. adj.

1. Made of cardboard.

ΚΠ

1819 Trewman's Exeter Flying Post 19 Aug. (advt.) A new & very superior Article for Drawings in Water Colours and Crayons, and Cardboard Ornaments.

1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxviii. §5169 Cardboard pill boxes.

1925–6 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 391/1 These Record Albums are made with strong cardboard covers.

2016 J. Zafra Stories so Far 40 When he came to Manila to visit he brought a large cardboard box full of M&Ms, cans of corned beef, [etc.].

2. figurative. Flimsy, insubstantial; (esp. of a character in a play, film, etc.) unreal, stereotyped, one-dimensional.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal

imaginary?1510

imaginative1517

rational1530

fantastical1531

fantasied1561

airy1565

fancied1568

legendary1570

dreamed1597

fabled1606

ideal1611

fictive1612

affectual1614

insubstantiala1616

imaginatorya1618

supposititious1620

fictitious1621

utopian1624

utopic1624

notional1629

affective1633

fictiousa1644

notionary1646

figmental1655

suppositious1655

fict1677

visionary1725

metaphysical1728

unrealized1767

fancy1801

nice-spun1801

subjective1815

aerial1829

transcendental1835

cardboardy1863

mythical1870

cardboard1879

fictionary1882

figmentary1887

alternative1939

alternate1944

fantasized1964

ideate1966

fanciful-

fantastic-

1879 A. H. Guernsey Thomas Carlyle i. 22 Most likely not even Bismarck or Von Moltke at this time suspected how thin was the shell upon which was built the structure of the French empire, or what a very cardboard edifice was that seemingly so solid pile.

1887 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 312 1931 They were forging a weapon which would break in their own hands; it would prove to be a mere cardboard weapon.

1893 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 41 476/1 When his cardboard empire of the East fell to pieces.

1913 G. Saintsbury Eng. Novel viii. 311 The inhuman uncle and the licentious duke are mere cardboard characters.

1952 Illustrated 6 Dec. 8 The cardboard family that has become larger than life.

2004 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 21/3 Most problematic is the political backdrop, which seems so cardboard you feel it's in danger of tipping over every time the characters step outside.

2015 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. What follows is a cliched muddle of mistaken identities, body-switching, role-reversal, forbidden love and cardboard villains.

Compounds

cardboard city n. (a) an urban area of (cheap) housing made of inferior materials; (b) an urban area where homeless people congregate in makeshift shelters made from cardboard packaging and similar materials.Sometimes (with capital initials) as a nickname for a specific area.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > lack of planning

cardboard city1876

urban blight1934

urban sprawl1934

sprawl1955

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > decrepit or unsightly

cardboard city1876

twilight zone1909

blight1938

grey area1959

twilight area1960

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > disreputable

purlieu1619

urban jungle1849

cardboard city1876

skid road1880

skid row1931

New Jack City1989

1876 J. J. Rowan Emigrant & Sportsman in Canada ii. 60 Ottawa is not a cardboard city; there are no shanties, no shoddy. Everything is solid, substantial, and handsome.

1949 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 12 June 10/4 The 1949 version of the hobo..is different from the previous brigades. The percentage of college men is extremely high and Walla Walla's cardboard city has its share.

1967 N.Y. Times 7 May 129/2 A few blocks away is a low-income white neighborhood, nicknamed Cardboard City.

1990 Independent 24 Jan. 20/6 Beggars on our streets, cardboard cities..are the results of..political indifference.

2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 37 They'd evict us and we'd have to live in Cardboard City with winos and dossers. Fancy being a bag lady, do you?

cardboard cutout n. a figure cut out of cardboard, used in an advertising display, as a theatrical prop, etc.; (figurative) a character in a play, film, etc., who seems unreal, stereotyped, or one-dimensional; a person who is regarded as superficial or stereotypical.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character

underpart1679

persona muta1714

travesty1732

soubrette1753

old man1762

small part?1774

breeches-part1779

character part1811

fat1812

chambermaida1828

fool?1835

raisonneur1845

ingénue1848

villain of the piece1854

stock character1864

feeder1866

satirette1870

character role1871

travesty1887

thinking part1890

walk-on1902

cardboard cutout1906

bit1926

good guy1928

feed1929

bad guy1932

goody1934

walkthrough1935

narrator1941

cameo1950

black hat1959

1906 Spatula (Boston) May 606/1 On the upraised cover of each box a cardboard cut-out of a man's head was fastened.

1956 Ess. in Crit. 6 372 The character of Harcourt, which the author has simply left as a cardboard cut-out.

1990 High Life (Brit. Airways) Sept. 29/4 You can have your picture taken with your arm round the shoulder of George Bush (or at least his lifesize cardboard cut-out).

1991 Creem Apr. 6 L.A.'s okay, as long as you don't get into the superficial Hollywood thing. Then again, if you want to have fun being a cardboard cutout for a while, there's nothing wrong with that either.

2008 Scotsman (Nexis) 20 May 45 Its characters are real, ambiguous people, not cardboard cutouts.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cardboard
释义	cardboardn.²adj. Brit. /ˈkɑːdbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈkɑrdˌbɔrd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: card n.², board n. Etymology: < card n.² + board n. Compare earlier cardpaper n. A. n.² Thick, stiff paper or pasteboard, used for making boxes, etc. Also (now rare): a piece of such material. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > materials made from paper or pulp > [noun] > cardboard cardc1545 chart1704 cardpaper1707 cardboard1789 1789 Chester Chron. 18 Sept. Card-boards, Colours, Camel-hair Pencils, and every other necessary apparatus for the polite art of drawing. 1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall I. xviii. 325 The pencil..leaves an impression upon card-board that no amount of rubbing can efface. 1863 A. Wynter Subtle Brains 309 The rooms in which the portraits are gummed on cardboard and packed up. 1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxviii. 16 They are printed on stout, fine cardboard. 1935 Amer. Girl July 12/2 You might bind the sheets of cardboard to each other with metal paper-fasteners. 1973 I. Litvinov His Master's Voice (1989) ii. 25 A large unframed photograph, mounted on grey embossed cardboard. 2001 H. Collins No Smoke vi. 77 Who is going to pay five quid for a tiny piece of cardboard? B. adj. 1. Made of cardboard. ΚΠ 1819 Trewman's Exeter Flying Post 19 Aug. (advt.) A new & very superior Article for Drawings in Water Colours and Crayons, and Cardboard Ornaments. 1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxviii. §5169 Cardboard pill boxes. 1925–6 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Fall–Winter 391/1 These Record Albums are made with strong cardboard covers. 2016 J. Zafra Stories so Far 40 When he came to Manila to visit he brought a large cardboard box full of M&Ms, cans of corned beef, [etc.]. 2. figurative. Flimsy, insubstantial; (esp. of a character in a play, film, etc.) unreal, stereotyped, one-dimensional. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal imaginary?1510 imaginative1517 rational1530 fantastical1531 fantasied1561 airy1565 fancied1568 legendary1570 dreamed1597 fabled1606 ideal1611 fictive1612 affectual1614 insubstantiala1616 imaginatorya1618 supposititious1620 fictitious1621 utopian1624 utopic1624 notional1629 affective1633 fictiousa1644 notionary1646 figmental1655 suppositious1655 fict1677 visionary1725 metaphysical1728 unrealized1767 fancy1801 nice-spun1801 subjective1815 aerial1829 transcendental1835 cardboardy1863 mythical1870 cardboard1879 fictionary1882 figmentary1887 alternative1939 alternate1944 fantasized1964 ideate1966 fanciful- fantastic- 1879 A. H. Guernsey Thomas Carlyle i. 22 Most likely not even Bismarck or Von Moltke at this time suspected how thin was the shell upon which was built the structure of the French empire, or what a very cardboard edifice was that seemingly so solid pile. 1887 Hansard's Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 312 1931 They were forging a weapon which would break in their own hands; it would prove to be a mere cardboard weapon. 1893 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 41 476/1 When his cardboard empire of the East fell to pieces. 1913 G. Saintsbury Eng. Novel viii. 311 The inhuman uncle and the licentious duke are mere cardboard characters. 1952 Illustrated 6 Dec. 8 The cardboard family that has become larger than life. 2004 Daily Tel. 6 Feb. 21/3 Most problematic is the political backdrop, which seems so cardboard you feel it's in danger of tipping over every time the characters step outside. 2015 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. What follows is a cliched muddle of mistaken identities, body-switching, role-reversal, forbidden love and cardboard villains. Compounds cardboard city n. (a) an urban area of (cheap) housing made of inferior materials; (b) an urban area where homeless people congregate in makeshift shelters made from cardboard packaging and similar materials.Sometimes (with capital initials) as a nickname for a specific area. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [noun] > town-planning or development > lack of planning cardboard city1876 urban blight1934 urban sprawl1934 sprawl1955 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > decrepit or unsightly cardboard city1876 twilight zone1909 blight1938 grey area1959 twilight area1960 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > disreputable purlieu1619 urban jungle1849 cardboard city1876 skid road1880 skid row1931 New Jack City1989 1876 J. J. Rowan Emigrant & Sportsman in Canada ii. 60 Ottawa is not a cardboard city; there are no shanties, no shoddy. Everything is solid, substantial, and handsome. 1949 Walla Walla (Washington) Union-Bull. 12 June 10/4 The 1949 version of the hobo..is different from the previous brigades. The percentage of college men is extremely high and Walla Walla's cardboard city has its share. 1967 N.Y. Times 7 May 129/2 A few blocks away is a low-income white neighborhood, nicknamed Cardboard City. 1990 Independent 24 Jan. 20/6 Beggars on our streets, cardboard cities..are the results of..political indifference. 2001 C. Glazebrook Madolescents 37 They'd evict us and we'd have to live in Cardboard City with winos and dossers. Fancy being a bag lady, do you? cardboard cutout n. a figure cut out of cardboard, used in an advertising display, as a theatrical prop, etc.; (figurative) a character in a play, film, etc., who seems unreal, stereotyped, or one-dimensional; a person who is regarded as superficial or stereotypical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character underpart1679 persona muta1714 travesty1732 soubrette1753 old man1762 small part?1774 breeches-part1779 character part1811 fat1812 chambermaida1828 fool?1835 raisonneur1845 ingénue1848 villain of the piece1854 stock character1864 feeder1866 satirette1870 character role1871 travesty1887 thinking part1890 walk-on1902 cardboard cutout1906 bit1926 good guy1928 feed1929 bad guy1932 goody1934 walkthrough1935 narrator1941 cameo1950 black hat1959 1906 Spatula (Boston) May 606/1 On the upraised cover of each box a cardboard cut-out of a man's head was fastened. 1956 Ess. in Crit. 6 372 The character of Harcourt, which the author has simply left as a cardboard cut-out. 1990 High Life (Brit. Airways) Sept. 29/4 You can have your picture taken with your arm round the shoulder of George Bush (or at least his lifesize cardboard cut-out). 1991 Creem Apr. 6 L.A.'s okay, as long as you don't get into the superficial Hollywood thing. Then again, if you want to have fun being a cardboard cutout for a while, there's nothing wrong with that either. 2008 Scotsman (Nexis) 20 May 45 Its characters are real, ambiguous people, not cardboard cutouts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.²adj.1789
随便看	misenter misentered misentering misenters misenticing misentitled misentreat misentreated misentreating misentreats misentries misentry misenunciation misepiscopist miser miser's gallon miser's sauce miserabilism miserabilist miserabilistic miserability miserable miserable-looking miserablelooking miserableness

cardboardn.2adj.

Compounds

cardboardn.²adj.