Crossword clues for fiberboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fiberboard \fiberboard\ n. a type of wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets, calle also particle board.
Syn: fibreboard, particle board.
Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, and used in building or making furniture. n. (context US English) A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, and used in building or making furniture.
WordNet
n. wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets [syn: fibreboard, particle board]
Wikipedia
Fiberboard (American spelling) or fibreboard (Commonwealth spelling) is a type of engineered wood product that is made out of wood fibers. Types of fiberboard (in order of increasing density) include particle board, medium-density fiberboard (MDF), and hardboard.
Fiberboard is sometimes used as a synonym for particle board, but particle board usually refers to low-density fiberboard. Plywood is not a type of fiberboard, as it is made of thin sheets of wood, not wood fibers or particles. Fiberboard, particularly medium-density fiberboard, is heavily used in the furniture industry. For pieces that will be visible, a veneer of wood is often glued onto fiberboard to give it the appearance of conventional wood.
In the packaging industry, the term "fiberboard" is often used to describe a tough kraft-based paperboard or corrugated fiberboard for boxes.
"Fiberboard" is also an intermediate product, an output of a pulp mill used as input for a paper mill.
Usage examples of "fiberboard".
Different-sized legs and portions of legs, well-muscled arms, a battery of five-holed masks hung on nails from an upright fiberboard sheet.
The rest of my year abroad was done via a Cracow fiberboard suitcase, Polish suit and shoes, and a loden coat I bought at the Vienna flea market for four dollars.
On shaky legs, Gonzales walked down a flight of steps and turned into a hallway done in blue-painted lunar dust fiberboard with aluminum moldings.