plywood

From ply (“sheet”) +‎ wood.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaɪwʊd/

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plywood (usually uncountable, plural plywoods)

1. (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.

2. (countable) A specific grade or type of this construction material.

   We stock exterior plywoods, interior plywoods, and furniture plywoods.

• → Swedish: plywood

plywood (third-person singular simple present plywoods, present participle plywooding, simple past and past participle plywooded)

1. (transitive) To fit or block up with plywood.

• chipboard
• fibreboard
• particle board

From English plywood, used in Swedish since 1925.

plywood c

1. (uncountable) plywood, cross veneer

• plywood is the common commercial name, but kryssfaner is the preferred technical term.

• kryssfaner

• bräda
• masonit
• spånskiva

• plywood in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• plywood in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• plywood in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)