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DRYWALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("drywall" is a kind of...):
board (a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drywall"):
beaver board (a light wallboard made of compressed wood pulp)
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)
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