Home › Words › C › containerboardcontainerboardcontainerboard means A form of paperboard especially manufactured for the production of corrugated fiberboard.EtymologyFrom container + board.nounA form of paperboard especially manufactured for the production of corrugated fiberboard.e.g.“Zhang Yin, who saw a solution to China's thirst for containerboard by importing United States scrap paper, in her Hong Kong office.” — 2007 January 16, David Barboza, “Blazing a Paper Trail in China”, in New York Times:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.boxboard 75% match — Paperboard used for the manufacture of folding cartons and rigid boxes. vs containerboard →cartonboard 74% match — Synonym of boxboard. vs containerboard →cardboard 68% match — A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs. vs containerboard →pressboard 67% match — A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp. vs containerboard →millboard 64% match — A stiff paperboard or pasteboard used for book covers. vs containerboard →fiberboard 62% match — A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, and used in building or making furniture. vs containerboard →beaverboard 62% match — A form of fiberboard made of wood pulp compressed into sheets. vs containerboard →pasteboard 61% match — Card stock. vs containerboard →