Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A pasteboard made from discarded paper.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin

Etymologies

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chip +‎ board

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Examples

  • · Particle board (also called chipboard), principally made of wood chips (but also from other fibrous or small-sized ligno-cellulose materials), which are dried, blended with a synthetic resin and hot-pressed (requiring about 8 % binder) or extrusion-pressed (requiring only 5 % binder) to almost any desirable shape.

    Chapter 4 1988

  • The "chipboard" is actually Packing cardboard from a Simply Scrappin' Kit That I covered with that paper I love so much!

    Archive 2007-01-01 Sarah Moore 2007

  • The "chipboard" is actually Packing cardboard from a Simply Scrappin' Kit That I covered with that paper I love so much!

    More from the Blogger's Swap! Sarah Moore 2007

  • Green funerals see people buried in coffins made from bio-degradable material such as chipboard and wicker work.

    unknown title 2009

  • I love the idea of these large 6 "create your own word chipboard letters.

    ScrapScene 2009

  • My new office has four high-and-wide bookcases, which is to say that these chipboard extravaganzas take up half my available wall space.

    Seth Shostak: Burn the Bookcases! Seth Shostak 2010

  • Clapboard, chipboard, plywood, drywall — every third-line material you could use for building a home (as opposed to their intended use of merely finishing a solid home's interior) was found more than wanting in the wake of the earth's vigorously shaking its head “No ... this will not stand.”

    Like Hell Needs A Heat Wave... 2010

  • Clapboard, chipboard, plywood, drywall — every third-line material you could use for building a home (as opposed to their intended use of merely finishing a solid home's interior) was found more than wanting in the wake of the earth's vigorously shaking its head “No ... this will not stand.”

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • The German artist uses paper, glue, a hand glue spreader, chipboard castor wheels, wire, screw clamps and carpet tubes to create a fantastic landscape in which he bends, curls and rolls paper into modules that became spaces inviting exploration and meditation.

    Novel Approaches to Sculpture Mariana Schroeder 2011

  • My new office has four high-and-wide bookcases, which is to say that these chipboard extravaganzas take up half my available wall space.

    Seth Shostak: Burn the Bookcases! Seth Shostak 2010

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