Cardboard vs Food - What's the difference?
cardboard | food |
A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
Made of or resembling cardboard.
* 1868 , Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk ,
* 1973 , Journal of Black Poetry , Issue 17,
* 2008 , Katya Hokanson, Writing at Russia's Border ,
* Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama ,
(uncountable) Any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (countable) A foodstuff.
(uncountable, figuratively) Anything that nourishes or sustains.
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
* (and other bibiographic particulars) (William Wordsworth)
As nouns the difference between cardboard and food
is that cardboard is a wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs while food is (uncountable) any substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.As an adjective cardboard
is made of or resembling cardboard.cardboard
English
(wikipedia cardboard)Noun
Derived terms
* cardboard box * cardboard city * cardboard cut-out, cardboard cutoutSee also
* paperboardAdjective
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.
page 27:
- The thing really looked quite cardboard .
page 122:
- While Lensky’s character is quite cardboard , Onegin’s manipulations and lack of ability to call off the duel because he fears society’s jibes, Lensky’s youth and naivety, and Tatiana’s reaction to the duel lend the event its gravity.
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- MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.
food
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
- Mozart and Bach are food for my soul.
- This may prove food to my displeasure.
- In this moment there is life and food / For future years.