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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
plasterboard
noun
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▪ A typical lightweight construction would be a timber frame with insulation between the studs and an inner lining of plasterboard.
▪ Both ordinary and thermal plasterboard are also available with a backing film which makes it resistant to water vapour.
▪ Fergus was staring at the plasterboard expanse above them.
▪ Fresco is a completely new development in plasterboard design.
▪ He could hear his father snoring through the thin plasterboard.
▪ The elegant panelled wall isn't wood, isn't marble, but plasterboard.
▪ The wall between the two attics was only thin plasterboard.
▪ They scrounge wiring, plasterboard, wood, all kinds of building materials from local firms and are rebuilding the charred structure.
Wiktionary
plasterboard

n. A construction material consisting of a rigid panel of several layers of fibreboard or paper bonded to a gypsum core. vb. (context transitive English) To fit or reinforce with plasterboard.

WordNet
plasterboard

n. wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bounded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls [syn: gypsum board]

Usage examples of "plasterboard".

Tommy pointed to the portrait hanging above the black marble mantel over a cast iron fireplace that was on one of the three plasterboard walls of a room.

He smelled raw wood, the dry scent of plasterboard, the dust, but saw almost nothing.

As it was, they heard the plasterboard at the base of the pseudo-ziggurat crack.

A few forgot the warnings that the western ziggurat could not support significant weight and landed on its jutting steps, causing the structure to shudder and chunks of plasterboard sprayed with decorative pseudo-stone to plummet down.

He shimmied his hips in pleasurable sync with the exaggerated double bobbing upon the plasterboard screen.

I sat there, staring at the blank wall, making my way from Heinola to the target house, when I noticed a piece of plasterboard missing around a double-pronged plug.

I pushed the plasterboard back in place and walked around the room, looking for any more holes.

One morning I stared balefully at a plateful of eggs that seemed hopelessly gooey and toast that looked like plasterboard, and I exploded.

Somebody had taken one of the crossed swords from the wall and jammed it through her chest and through the padded headboard of the bed and into the plasterboard of the wall.

The reception room of the Sono-phono Studios, some seven feet square, consisted of plasterboard walls, a plasterboard door in back, a green metal desk, and a very ugly receptionist , with a plasterboard complexion, chewing a large wad of pink gum.

Since her son had taken over, death had steadily reduced the number of residents, but the partitions remained in place, strips of flimsy plasterboard through which you could hear everything that happened in the neighbouring room.

The doorway to the two adjoining rooms gave into a cramped plasterboard cubicle from which plywood fire-retardant doors led off on either side.

Rosemary reluctantly turned aside to enter the dark plasterboard cubicle opposite.

When a slab of plasterboard came loose, Joe lugged it out to the backyard, freeing Pamela for the more painstaking work of scraping excess plaster from the counter and removing shreds of drywall from the vertical studs.

Someone had either punched or kicked the plasterboard or paneling so violently that it was almost as if a wrecking crew had crashed through.