plasterboard

English

Etymology

plaster +‎ board

Noun

plasterboard (plural plasterboards)

1. A construction material consisting of a rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:drywall

Translations

rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core

• Bulgarian: гипсокартон m (gipsokarton)
• Finnish: kipsilevy (fi)
• Georgian: გიბსოკარდონი (gibsoḳardoni)
• Greek: γυψοσανίδα (el) f (gypsosanída), ασβεστόπλακα f (asvestóplaka)
• Hungarian: gipszkarton (hu)
• Irish: plástarchlár m
• Italian: cartongesso (it) m
• Portuguese: placa de gesso f, gesso cartonado m
• Russian: гипсокарто́н (ru) m (gipsokartón)
• Swedish: gipsplatta (sv) c, gipsskiva (sv) c
• Ukrainian: гіпсокарто́н (uk) m (hipsokartón)

Verb

plasterboard (third-person singular simple present plasterboards, present participle plasterboarding, simple past and past participle plasterboarded)

1. (transitive) To fit or reinforce with plasterboard.

See also

• cement board
• drywall
• gib
• gypsum plaster
• lath
• plaster
• Wonderboard™