Cardboard vs Softcover - What's the difference?
cardboard | softcover |
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 ,
(publishing, of a book) Having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 23, author=The Editors, title=Up Front, work=New York Times
, passage=It gives more emphasis to the literary novels and short-story collections reviewed so often in our pages (and sometimes published only in softcover ). }}
As nouns the difference between cardboard and softcover
is that cardboard is a wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs while softcover is (publishing) a book having such covers.As adjectives the difference between cardboard and softcover
is that cardboard is made of or resembling cardboard while softcover is (publishing|of a book) having covers made of paper or thin cardboard; paperback.cardboard
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(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.
page 501:
- MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.
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