Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin firm board made of sheets of paper pasted together or pressed paper pulp.
- noun A card, especially.
- noun A ticket.
- noun Games A playing card.
- noun A visiting card.
- adjective Made of pasteboard.
- adjective Of inferior quality; flimsy or unsubstantial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of thick paper formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or by macerating paper and casting it in molds, etc.
- noun Playing-cards.
- noun A visiting-card.
- noun A board on which dough is rolled out for pastry.
- Made of pasteboard: as, a pasteboard box; hence, flimsy; unsubstantial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.
- noun (Cookery) A board on which pastry dough is rolled; a molding board.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
card stock - noun computing, countable A common widget that can be used by multiple users to
paste items or text to.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper
Etymologies
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Examples
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He made no parade about what he could do, but only fixed up a plain pasteboard notice, informing the public that he possessed an infallible remedy for the cholera, and would engage to cure all who sent for him.
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Bingo, following what he was prone to call his pasteboard, presented himself -- a large, cool, well-bred, if rather stupid-looking, man, arrayed in excellently-fitting clothes, saying:
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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The materials with which this fabric is built, they procure from the cottony furze, with which our oak rails are covered; this substance tempered with glue, produces a sort of pasteboard, which is very strong, and resists all the inclemencies of the weather.
Letters from an American Farmer J. Hector St. John de Cr��vecoeur 1774
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Like other such utilities, every time you copy or cut content-text, images, and so on-to the Clipboard, PTHPasteboard Pro automatically adds that content to its own list of Clipboard contents, which the developer calls a pasteboard; you choose how many items the pasteboard holds, as well as the maximum size of items to be saved.
Macworld 2010
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Like other such utilities, every time you copy or cut content-text, images, and so on-to the Clipboard, PTHPasteboard Pro automatically adds that content to its own list of Clipboard contents, which the developer calls a pasteboard; you choose how many items the pasteboard holds, as well as the maximum size of items to be saved.
Macworld 2010
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Like other such utilities, every time you copy or cut content-text, images, and so on-to the Clipboard, PTHPasteboard Pro automatically adds that content to its own list of Clipboard contents, which the developer calls a pasteboard; you choose how many items the pasteboard holds, as well as the maximum size of items to be saved.
Macworld 2009
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Like other such utilities, every time you copy or cut content -- text, images, and so on -- to the Clipboard, PTHPasteboard Pro automatically adds that content to its own list of Clipboard contents, which the developer calls a pasteboard; you choose how many items the pasteboard holds, as well as the maximum size of items to be saved.
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Like other such utilities, every time you copy or cut content-text, images, and so on-to the Clipboard, PTHPasteboard Pro automatically adds that content to its own list of Clipboard contents, which the developer calls a pasteboard; you choose how many items the pasteboard holds, as well as the maximum size of items to be saved.
Macworld 2009
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Marjorie peeped about, opened some of the boxes and examined the dresses, and inspected a variety of odd objects, such as pasteboard crowns, fairies 'wings, sceptres, wands, and swords.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907
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A married woman now leaves her husband's card with her own, and sisters leave the "pasteboard" of their brothers and often those of their brothers 'friends.
Worldly Ways and Byways Eliot Gregory 1884
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