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Sheetrock

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Sheet·rock  (shtrk)
A trademark used for plasterboard. This trademark often occurs in print in lowercase: "[It] is excellent for installing lights, installing ceiling tile, taping sheetrock . . . and other jobs" (Engineering News-Record). It also occurs as a verb: "We're going to sheetrock the ceiling" (New York Times).
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.
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Noun1.Sheetrock - a kind of plasterboardSheetrock - a kind of plasterboard              
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
trademark - a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product
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Drywall, which has more pseudonyms than Puff Daddy (among them gypsum board, wallboard, plasterboard, Sheetrock, Gibraltar board, and if you're in a hurry, just "board"), is the most common source used for constructing interior walls and ceilings.
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The system also can be installed by any drywall installer, costs less to demount than it does to demolish a normal Sheetrock partition and saves material costs each time it's reused.
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The interiors feature custom-designed, curved glass walls in the conference rooms, sheetrock walls, Panelite honeycomb composite sliding doors in both the multi-purpose room and private offices, a cubicle furniture system in the open office areas, carpet tiles, and suspended acoustical ceilings.
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