drywall (redirected from Plaster board)

dry wall or dry·wall (drwôl)

n.

1.

a. Plasterboard.

b. A wall or ceiling constructed of a prefabricated material, such as plasterboard or paneling.

2. A wall constructed from rocks that are not cemented together.

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drywall, plasterboard - Drywall is a building material made of a sheet of plaster covered with heavy paper on both sides; it is also called plasterboard.

See also related terms for plaster.

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Sheetrock, drywall, wall board - Sheetrock is a trade name for drywall or wall board—pre-hardened plaster of Paris (gypsum) sold in large sheets and used as a wall surface in building construction.

See also related terms for trade+name.

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drywall - a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses dry wall, wallboard beaver board - a light wallboard made of compressed wood pulp board - a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose; "he nailed boards across the windows" fiberboard, fibreboard, particle board - wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets gypsum board, plasterboard - wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bonded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls