Definition of Plywood

1. Noun. A laminate made of thin layers of wood.

Exact synonyms: Plyboard
Generic synonyms: Laminate

Definition of Plywood

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. A specific grade or type of this construction material. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plywood

1. a building material [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plywood

plyers
plyg
plygain
plygains
plyght
plyghted
plyghting
plyghts
plygs
plying
plyingly
plymouth brethren
plynth
plyometric
plyometrics
plywood (current term)
plywoods
plz
plzthx
pm
pml
pmol
pmpm
pneo-
pneocardiac reflex
pneodynamics
pneometer
pneometry
pneopneic reflex
pneoscope

Literary usage of Plywood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the National Research Council by National Research Council (U.S.) (1921)
"Warping tests of plywood. Working plan to be prepared, ... Many tests have been made on built-up plywood forms such as airplane engine bearers, wing ribs, ..."

2. Bulletin of the National Research Council by National Research Council (U.S.) (1921)
"Warping tests of plywood. Working plan to be prepared, ... Many tests have been made on built-up plywood forms such as airplane engine bearers, wing ribs, ..."

3. Wooden Box and Crate Construction by Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (1921)
"Use of plywood in Packing Boxes—The properties of veneer or thin lumber in ... The product is known as "plywood," and has the advantage of producing a ..."

4. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"plywood Construction One of Most Important Developments plywood construction ... plywood permits, for instance, the making of the fuselage of an aeroplane ..."

5. The Principles of Automobile Body Design: Covering the Fundamentals of Open by Kingston Forbes (1922)
"Tests made at the Forest Products Laboratory have shown that the commonly-used plywood species may be divided into the following groups, all woods in any ..."

6. Wooden Box and Crate Construction by Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.) (1921)
"Use of plywood in Packing Boxes—The properties of veneer or thin lumber in ... The product is known as "plywood," and has the advantage of producing a ..."

7. Textbook of Applied Aeronautic Engineering by Henry Woodhouse (1920)
"plywood Construction One of Most Important Developments plywood construction ... plywood permits, for instance, the making of the fuselage of an aeroplane ..."

8. The Principles of Automobile Body Design: Covering the Fundamentals of Open by Kingston Forbes (1922)
"Tests made at the Forest Products Laboratory have shown that the commonly-used plywood species may be divided into the following groups, all woods in any ..."

9. Text-book of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1920)
"Veneer, plywood.—Owing to the increasing cost of hard wood there has been developed the use of boards of soft wood with very thin sheets of hard wood, ..."

10. North American Forest Research: Investigative Projects in Forestry and by Earle Hart Clapp (1920)
"Warping tests of plywood. Working plan to be prepared, ... Many tests have been made on built-up plywood forms such as airplane engine bearers, wing ribs, ..."

11. Text-book of the Materials of Engineering by Herbert Fisher Moore, Harrison Frederick Gonnerman (1920)
"Veneer, plywood.—Owing to the increasing cost of hard wood there has been developed the use of boards of soft wood with very thin sheets of hard wood, ..."

12. North American Forest Research: Investigative Projects in Forestry and by Earle Hart Clapp (1920)
"Warping tests of plywood. Working plan to be prepared, ... Many tests have been made on built-up plywood forms such as airplane engine bearers, wing ribs, ..."

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