COMPOSITION BOARD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A stiff moderately thick paper

Synonyms:

cardboard; composition board

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("composition board" is a kind of...):

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

packing; packing material; wadding (any material used especially to protect something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "composition board"):

binder's board; binder board (a cardboard used by bookbinders to make covers for books)

card (thin cardboard, usually rectangular)

corrugated board; corrugated cardboard (cardboard with corrugations (can be glued to flat cardboard on one or both sides))

paperboard; poster board; posterboard (a cardboard suitable for making posters)

pasteboard (stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper)

strawboard (a coarse yellow cardboard made of straw pulp)