plywood
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English
Etymology
Noun
plywood (usually uncountable, plural plywoods)
- (uncountable) Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.
- After the hurricane there was a severe regional shortage of plywood, especially exterior plywood.
- (countable) A specific grade or type of this construction material.
- We stock exterior plywoods, interior plywoods, and furniture plywoods.
Descendants
- → Swedish: plywood
Translations
construction material
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specific type or grade of this material
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Verb
plywood (third-person singular simple present plywoods, present participle plywooding, simple past and past participle plywooded)
- (transitive) To fit or block up with plywood.
See also
Swedish
Etymology
From English plywood, used in Swedish since 1925.
Noun
plywood c
- (uncountable) plywood, cross veneer
Usage notes
- plywood is the common commercial name, but kryssfaner is the preferred technical term.
Declension
| Declension of plywood | ||||
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| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | plywood | plywooden | — | — |
| Genitive | plywoods | plywoodens | — | — |