plasterboard

English

Etymology

plaster +‎ board

Noun

plasterboard (plural plasterboards)

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

Finnish: kipsilevy (fi)
Georgian: გიბსოკარდონი (gibsoḳardoni)
Greek: γυψοσανίδα (el) f (gypsosanída), ασβεστόπλακα f (asvestóplaka)
Hungarian: gipszkarton
Irish: plástarchlár m

Italian: cartongesso (it) m
Portuguese: placa de gesso f
Russian: гипсокарто́н (ru) m (gipsokartón)
Swedish: gipsplatta (sv) c, gipsskiva (sv) c

Verb

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

(transitive) To fit or reinforce with plasterboard.