drywall

See also: dry wall

English

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^[1]:

     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

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
• 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: drywall m, gesso acartonado m, gesso cartonado 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. (transitive, intransitive) To install and finish drywall.

Synonyms

• sheetrock

See also

• plaster