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Pasteboard

Definition: Pasteboard

Pasteboard

Noun

1. Stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pasteboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Pasteboard

DomainDefinitions

Dream Interpretation

To dream of pasteboard, denotes that unfaithful friends will deceive you concerning important matters. To cut pasteboard, you will throw aside difficulties in your struggle to reach eminent positions. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Literature

Pasteboard A visiting card; so called from the material of which it is made. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Pasteboard

English words defined with "pasteboard": Bristol boardCandlebombMarron, millboardPanstereoramaSpring back. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pasteboard": arranger-assembler, ASSEMBLER-ARRANGERCARTON-FORMING-MACHINE TENDER, Cartoons. (references)

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Modern Usage: Pasteboard

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Pasteboard Crown (1922)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Pasteboard

DomainTitle

Books

  • Pasteboard Jones and Other Memories (reference)

  • Pasteboard masks : fact as spiritual symbol in the novels of Hawthorne and Melville (reference)

  • Terry Lagerould's Pasteboard Presentations (reference)

  • The Pasteboard Bandit (The Iona and Peter Opie Library of Children's Literature) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pasteboard

"Pasteboard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pasteboard" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%12101,599

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pasteboard

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pasteboard xt

11

pasteboard

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pasteboard

Language Translations for "pasteboard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

prej kartoni, karton (card, cardboard, paper-board), i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, false, fictitious, fictive, hollow, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), biletë (bill, ducat, note, ticket, transportation). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كرتون (cardboard), ‏ورق مقوى (cardboard), ‏الكرتون. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

картонен, картон (cardboard), карта за игра (playing card), визитна картичка (visiting card), несъществен (accidental, incidental, inessential, insubstantial, non essential, trivial, unessential, unsubstantial), многослоен картон, билет (ticket, transportation), паянтов (flimsy, frame-build, jerry-build, ramshackle). (various references)

   

Czech

  

lepenka (board, card, cardboard), karton. (various references)

   

Danish

  

limet pap (thin cardboard), karton (board, card, cardboard, carton, paper board, thin cardboard). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کاغذمقواءی , کارت ویزیت (Card), قلابی (Adulterate, Bogus, False, Quack, Sham), ورق بازی (Card). (various references)

   

French

  

planche pâtisserie, de carton, carton fin, carton (paper board). (various references)

   

German

  

pappe (board, card, cardboard, embossed paperboard, glue, mush, paper board, paste, roofing felt), Pappdeckel. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קרטון (cardboard, carton). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

papundekli, kartonlemez, karton (board, calico, cardboard, chintz, cotton, loose card, muslin, paperboard, print cloth). (various references)

   

Italian

  

gracile (frail, puny, skinny, slight, weak), di cartone, cartone (board, cardboard, cartoon, paper board, paperboard mount). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asteboardpay

   

Portuguese

  

pouco consistente (sloppy), papelão (board, box card, boxboard, card, cardboard, chip core board, chipboard, paperboard, strawboard), frágil (brash, breakable, brittle, dainty, decayed, decrepit, delicate, dilapidated, fragile, frail, friable, lapsed, rickety, sleazy, tender, weak, weakly, well-made), espancar (bat, beat, belabor, belabour, clobber, lambaste, larrup, lathe, lathery, lay off, maltreatment, maul, pomology, quilt, spank, swinge, thresh, thwack, trounce, wallop, welt, whang, whop), cartolina (cardboard, paper, paperboard, thin cardboard), cartão de visita (business card, calling card, carte, name tag, visiting card), cartão (board, card, cardboard, carton, chip core board, chipboard, copyist, map, menu, mill-dam, paper board, paperboard, paperboard mount, scribble, ticket). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

mucava (cardboard), carton (bandbox, board, cardboard, cartoon), carte de vizitã (calling card, card), carte de joc (card), bilet (bill, billet, card, note, seat, slip, ticket). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

картон (board, cardboard, cartoon). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kartonski, karton (cardboard, millboard). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tarjeta de visita (business card, calling card, visiting card), naipe (card, playing card), de cartulina, de cartón, cartulina (board, card, cardboard, paper board, pasted board), cartón fino (thin cardboard), cartón (board, cardboard, carton, cutout, felt paper, flong, inset, off-cut, paper board, paperboard), boleto (boletus, check, fare, penny bun, ticket), billete (bill, billet, check, fare, note, ticket). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

papp (board, cardboard, millboard, paper board, paperboard). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mukavva (board, cardboard, chipboard, paperboard), karton (cardboard, paperboard), kart (card, dry, greeting card, map, menu, old, postcard, weazened, wizen, wizened). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фікція (fiction, figment, negation, non-ens, nonentia, nonentity, tale), картонний, кле"ний картон, дошка для тіста. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

mỏng mảnh (feeble, slight, slightly), không chắc chắn (equivocal, touch-and-go, unassertive, uncertainly), danh thiếp (visiting-card), bằng giấy b"i, bìa cứng (cartridge-paper, millboard). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pasteboard

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Italian900-Modern

cartone. (various references)

French1500-Modern

carton. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pasteboard

Derivations

Words beginning with "pasteboard": pasteboards. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pasteboard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: plastiboard. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Pasteboard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: adsorbate, tapaderos, teaboards.

-2 letters: adapters, adaptors, adopters, broadest, pastored, probated, probates, readapts, readopts, seaboard, tapadero, teaboard.

-3 letters: abaters, abators, aborted, abrades, abreast, adapter, adaptor, adopter, aerosat, bastard, bedpost, boasted, boaster, boaters, borated, borates, dabster, debtors, departs, deports, esparto, parades, parados, petards, podesta, probate, proteas, rabatos, readapt, readopt, rebatos, redtops, roasted, saprobe, seaport, sorbate, sported, tabards, tabored, torsade.

-4 letters: abased, abaser, abated, abater, abates, abator, aboard, abodes, aborts, abrade, abroad, adapts, adepts, adobes, adopts, adores, adsorb, aortae, aortas, ardebs, bardes, barest, basted, baster, beards, boards, boarts, boated, boater, borate, breads, breast, broads, daters, debars, debtor, depart, deport, depots, derats, desorb, despot, dobras, dopers, doters, drapes, oaters, operas, orated, orates, oreads, padres, parade, pareos, parsed, parted, pasted, paster, pastor, paters, pedros, petard, ported, posada, posted, poster, prated, prates, presto, probed, probes, prosed, protea, rabato, rabats, rasped, reatas, rebato, rebops, redtop, repast, repots, respot, sabred, sapota, sapote, sarape, sarode, satrap, serdab, soaped, soaper, soared, sorbed, sorbet, sorted, spader, spared, spored, spread, stared, stoped, stoper, stored, strobe, strode, tabard, tabers, tabors, tapers, topers, trades, trapes, treads, tropes.

-5 letters: abase, abate, abets, abode, abort, adapt, adept, adobe, adopt, adore, aorta, apart, apers, apods, aport, apres, apter, ardeb, areas, arose, asper, aster, ataps, baaed, barde, bards, bared, bares, based, baser, baste, bated, bates, beads, beard, bears, beast, beats, besot, betas, board, boars, boart, boast, boats, bodes, boras, bored, bores, borts, botas, brads, braes, brats, bread, broad, brose, darbs, dares, darts, dater, dates, datos, dears, debar, debts, depot, derat, doats, dobra, doers, doest, dopas, doper, dopes, dorps, dorsa, doser, doter, dotes, drabs, drape, drats, drest, drops, dropt, estop, oared, oater, opera, opted, orate, orbed, oread, padre, parae, paras, pards, pared, pareo, pares, parse, parts, paseo, pasta, paste, pated, pater, pates, pears, peart, peats, pedro, pesto, poets, pored, pores, ports, posed, poser, praos, prase, prate, prats, presa, prest, proas, probe, prods, prose, prost, psoae, rabat, raped, rapes, rased, rated, rates, ratos, reads, reaps, reata, rebop, redos, repos, repot, resod, roads, roast, robed, robes, roped, ropes, rosed, roset, rotas, rotes, sabed, saber, sabot, sabra, sabre, sapor, sarod, sated, septa, sober, spade, spado, spaed, spare, spate, spear, spode, spore, sport, sprat, stade, stare, stead, stoae, stope, store, strap, strep, strop, taber, tabes, tabor, tapas, taped, taper, tapes, tardo, tared, tares, taros, tarps, tears, tepas, toads, toeas, toped, toper, topes, toras, tores, torse, trade, traps, tread, trode, trope, tsade.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: pasteboards.

 

+2 letters: plasterboard.

 

+3 letters: plasterboards.

 

+4 letters: particleboards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Pasteboard


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 73 74 65 62 6F 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0073 0074 0065 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50678586716881678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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