plywood
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈplaɪˌwʊd/
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contrachapado
- Araceli had insisted that the pool could be covered with thick sheets of plywood and anchored somehow.
- plywood sheets
- plywood panels
- a plywood board
This is a lovely piece of plywood from both sides, from the end.
- This is a lovely piece of plywood from both sides, from the end.
- is this like plywood shack that Dave and Pete built.
- The other was disposed of in a shallow grave covered by earth, plywood and a sheet of tin.
- I'm going to use screws to put the plywood together.
- It's kind of like armor for your plywood, except the armor's also wood, just harder.
- I remember buying my first full sheet of plywood.
- But now we still make boomerangs out of Birch aircraft grade plywood.
- So it was like, it was like plywood.
- And then finally one guy said, hey, could we just mix this with glue and make plywood?
- And then he looked around the back of it and in the back of it was plywood.
Examples
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Here you see a makeshift barrier built out of large plywood boards.
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Or you can stand it up like this and slide in a piece of plywood to make a shelf.
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The last piece of plywood goes on that front door.
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And we actually put plywood down over almost the entire attic.
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"Actually, all he had done was to nail a sheet of plywood over the bad part."
Fiction book (1991) -
Outside, behind the building, there are six large plywood bins used to study composting of dead animals.
Academic text (1998) -
Plywood is only slightly thicker than the human skull.
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Nearly all the paint had peeled off it, and plywood was nailed over the windows.
Fiction book (1993) -
Because the plywood has been sliced into thin pieces that are laminated cross grain.
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We decided to build a shelf using plywood because it is both strong and lightweight.
Synonyms
A strong board with thin layers of wood glued together used for building and furniture
How Strong
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Plywood comes from ply, which means 'layer', plus wood. Think of 'two-ply' tissues: plywood is many thin layers ('plies') of wood glued together, which is why it is strong.