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DRYWALL

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 I. (noun) 

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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:

dry wall; drywall; wallboard

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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