plywood

plywood

English

Etymology

ply (“sheet”) +‎ wood

Noun

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.

Descendants

• → Swedish: plywood

Translations

construction material

Bulgarian: шперплат m (šperplat) Catalan: contraplacat m Chinese: Mandarin: 合板 (zh) (hébǎn), 膠合板／胶合板 (zh) (jiāohébǎn) Czech: překližka (cs) f Danish: krydsfiner (da) m Dutch: multiplex (nl) n Estonian: vineer (et) Finnish: vaneri (fi) French: contreplaqué (fr) m German: Sperrholz (de) n Hebrew: עץ סנדוויץ׳‎ m Hungarian: rétegelt (fa)lemez, furnérlemez (hu) Irish: sraithadhmad m Italian: compensato (it) m Japanese: 合板 (ごうはん, gōhan, ごうばん, gōban), ベニヤ板 (beniya-ita) Maori: papa tāpatupatu Norwegian: kryssfiner m Persian: تخته لایه‎ (taxte lâye), تخته سه‌لایی‎ (taxte se-lâyi) Polish: sklejka f, dykta (pl) f Portuguese: compensado m Russian: фане́ра (ru) f (fanéra) Scottish Gaelic: fiodh-fillte m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: шперплоча f Roman: šperploča (sh) f Slovak: preglejka Spanish: contrachapado m, madera contrachapada f, triplay m (Mexico), Swedish: plywood (sv) c, kryssfaner (sv) n Tagalog: tablasuson Thai: ไม้อัด (th) (máai-àt) Turkish: kontrplak (tr) Vietnamese: ván ép Welsh: pren haenog m

specific type or grade of this material

Finnish: vaneri (fi) French: contreplaqué (fr) m Scottish Gaelic: fiodh-fillte m

Verb

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.

See also

• chipboard
• fibreboard
• particle board

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Swedish

Etymology

From English plywood, used in Swedish since 1925.

Noun

plywood c

1. (uncountable) plywood, cross veneer

Usage notes

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

Declension

Declension of plywood
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	plywood	plywooden	—	—
Genitive	plywoods	plywoodens	—	—

Synonyms

• kryssfaner

Related terms

• björkplywood
• furuplywood
• granplywood
• plywoodfabrik
• plywoodplatta
• plywoodsits
• plywoodskiva

See also

• bräda
• masonit
• spånskiva

References

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