drywall

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English

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drywall

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• dry wall

Etymology

From dry +‎ wall.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɪˌwɔːl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdraɪˌwɔl/

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, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in New York Times‎:

     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

Derived terms

• drywall saw

Translations

building material

Bulgarian: гипсокартон m (gipsokarton) Catalan: cartró-guix m Chinese: Mandarin: 乾墻 / 干墙 (gānqiáng), 石膏板 (shígāobǎn), 乾壁 / 干壁 (gānbì) Danish: gipsplade c Dutch: gipsplaat (nl) f, gipskarton (nl) n Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: kipsilevy (fi) French: plaque de plâtre (fr) f, cloison sèche f German: Gipskarton m, Gipskartonplatte (de) f, Trockenbauwand f, Trockenmauer f, Gipskartonwand f Hungarian: gipszkarton (hu) Irish: ballachlár m Italian: cartongesso (it) m Japanese: 石膏ボード (sekkōbōdo) Korean: 석고판 (seokgopan) Norwegian: gipsplate c Polish: płyta gipsowo-kartonowa f, płyta regipsowa f Portuguese: gesso acartonado m, gesso cartonado m, pladur (pt) m Romanian: gips-carton n, rigips n Russian: гипсокарто́н (ru) m (gipsokartón), штукатурка (ru) m (štukaturka) Spanish: cartón yeso m, tablero yeso m Swedish: gipsskiva (sv) c, gipsplatta (sv) c Turkish: alçıpan (tr) Ukrainian: гіпсокарто́н (uk) m (hipsokartón)

See also

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

Verb

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

1. (ambitransitive) To install and finish drywall.

Synonyms

• sheetrock

Derived terms

• drywaller

See also

• plaster