Meaning

2 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.

    After the hurricane there was a severe regional shortage of plywood, especially exterior plywood.

    Sperrholz

    фане́раfanéra

    фане́раfanéra

    a laminate made of thin layers of wood

  2. (countable, usually)A specific grade or type of this construction material.

    We stock exterior plywoods, interior plywoods, and furniture plywoods.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Tom put plywood over the windows.

  2. There was a plywood board there.

  3. These plywood beams are of different thicknesses.

  4. Layla tried to remove the plywood board.

  5. Layla found a plywood board in the basement.

Translations

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Forms

plural: plywoods
Singularplywood
Pluralplywoods

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a laminate made of thin layers of wood:plyboard

Word family

2 related words

See also

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