different between cardboard vs chipboard

English

Etymology

card +? board

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??db??d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??db??d/
  

Noun

cardboard (countable and uncountable, plural cardboards)

1. A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

Usage notes

Despite widespread general use in English, the term cardboard is deprecated in commerce and industry as not adequately defining a specific product.

Derived terms

• cardboard box
• cardboard city
• cardboard cut-out, cardboard cutout

Translations

See also

• paperboard

References

Adjective

cardboard

1. Made of or resembling cardboard; (figuratively) flat or flavorless.
   • 1868, Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk, page 114:

     The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.

   • 1973, Journal of Black Poetry, Issue 17, page 27:

     The thing really looked quite cardboard.

   • Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama, page 501:

     MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.

English

Etymology

From chip +? board.

Noun

chipboard (countable and uncountable, plural chipboards)

1. (Australia, Britain) A building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin.

   Synonym: (US, Canada) particle board

Derived terms

• hardboard

Translations

See also

• fibreboard
• plywood

Anagrams

• brachipod