different between cardboard vs microcard

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

micro- +? card

Noun

microcard (plural microcards)

1. A small card bearing a microreproduction of text, resembling the microfiche format but on cardboard rather than photographic film.

Verb

microcard (third-person singular simple present microcards, present participle microcarding, simple past and past participle microcarded)

1. (transitive) To transfer to microcard format.