drywall

See also: dry wall

English

Alternative forms

• dry wall

Etymology

dry +‎ wall

Noun

drywall (countable and uncountable, plural drywalls)

1. A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
   • 2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli and Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     As moldy drywall thudded to the curb in a depressing drumbeat throughout Breezy Point, Queens, Thomas Ryan’s reciprocating saw stood out like a growling declaration of impatience.

2. A wall made of this.
3. A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:drywall

Translations

building material

• Bulgarian: гипсокартон m (gipsokarton)
• Catalan: cartró-guix m
• Finnish: kipsilevy (fi)
• French: plaque de plâtre (fr) f, cloison sèche f
• German: Gipskarton m
• Hungarian: gipszkarton
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• Irish: ballachlár m
• Italian: cartongesso (it) m
• Norwegian: gipsplate c
• Portuguese: drywall m
• Russian: гипсокарто́н (ru) m (gipsokartón)
• Spanish: cartón yeso m, tablero yeso m

See also

• cement board
• plaster
• plasterboard
• gypsum plaster
• lath
• drystone

Verb

drywall (third-person singular simple present drywalls, present participle drywalling, simple past and past participle drywalled)

1. To install and finish drywall.

Synonyms

• sheetrock

See also

• plaster