Wood vs. Cardboard — What's the Difference?

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression.

Cardboard is a generic term for heavy-duty paper-based products having greater thickness and superior durability or other specific mechanical attributes to paper; such as foldability, rigidity and impact resistance. The construction can range from a thick sheet known as paperboard to corrugated fiberboard which is made of multiple corrugated and flat layers.

The hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber

A material similar to thick, stiff paper, that is made of pressed paper pulp or pasted sheets of paper. It is used for making cartons and signs, for example.

An area of land, smaller than a forest, that is covered with growing trees

Made of or consisting of cardboard.

The secondary xylem of trees and shrubs, lying beneath the bark and consisting largely of cellulose and lignin.

Flimsy; insubstantial.

This tissue when cut and dried, used especially for building material and fuel.

Lacking depth; superficial

A growth of trees and other plants usually covering a smaller area than a forest.

A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.

A forest.

Made of or resembling cardboard; (figurative) flat or flavorless.

(Music) A woodwind.

A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

(Sports) Any of a series of golf clubs used to hit long shots, having a bulbous head made of wood, metal, or graphite, and numbered one to five in order of increasing loft.

A stiff moderately thick paper

To fuel with wood.

Resembling cardboard especially in flimsiness;

To cover with trees; forest.

Without substance;

To gather or be supplied with wood.

Made or consisting of wood; wooden.

Used or suitable for cutting, storing, or working with wood.

Woods Living, growing, or present in forests

Mentally deranged.

(uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.

(countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.

A forested or wooded area.

Firewood.

A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.

(music) A woodwind instrument.

An erection of the penis.

Chess pieces.

A peckerwood.

(transitive) To cover or plant with trees.

To hide behind trees.

(transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.

(intransitive) To take or get a supply of wood.

(obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

To grow mad; to act like a madman; to mad.

To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for; as, to wood a steamboat or a locomotive.

To take or get a supply of wood.

A large and thick collection of trees; a forest or grove; - frequently used in the plural.

The substance of trees and the like; the hard fibrous substance which composes the body of a tree and its branches, and which is covered by the bark; timber.

The fibrous material which makes up the greater part of the stems and branches of trees and shrubby plants, and is found to a less extent in herbaceous stems. It consists of elongated tubular or needle-shaped cells of various kinds, usually interwoven with the shinning bands called silver grain.

Trees cut or sawed for the fire or other uses.

The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees

The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area

United States film actress (1938-1981)

English conductor (1869-1944)

English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)

United States painter noted for works based on life in the Midwest (1892-1942)

Any wind instrument other than the brass instruments

A golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; metal woods are now available