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 fromwood chips compressed and bound with syntheticresin .
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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Examples
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· 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
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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
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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
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Green funerals see people buried in coffins made from bio-degradable material such as chipboard and wicker work.
unknown title 2009
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I love the idea of these large 6 "create your own word chipboard letters.
ScrapScene 2009
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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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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.”
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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
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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
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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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