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corkboard

[ kawrk-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun

  1. an insulating material made of compressed cork, used in building, for industrial purposes, etc.
  2. a bulletin board made of this material.


corkboard

/ ˈkɔːkˌbɔːd /

noun

  1. a thin slab made of granules of cork, used as a floor or wall finish and as an insulator


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Word History and Origins

Origin of corkboard1

First recorded in 1890–95; cork + board

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Example Sentences

Beside it, there’s a kiosk like you’d find at a trailhead, with a single sheet of paper pinned to corkboard, detailing the history and background of the Moab UMTRA project.

We foresee an entire corkboard full of photographs populating her “new ninth-grader” walls.

So, you don’t need a corkboard with Post-its and red string and thumbtacks to see that it goes all the way to the top here at the Freakonomics Radio Book Club.

They all have a corkboard or a dry erase board that was reserved for bad ideas.

On the wall to my left is a corkboard pinned with cards—each one a scene in my latest project.

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