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ply·wood

 (plī′wo͝od′)
n.
A structural material made of layers of wood glued together, usually with the grains of adjoining layers at right angles to each other.

[ply + wood.]
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plywood

(ˈplaɪˌwʊd)
n
(Building) a structural board consisting of an odd number of thin layers of wood glued together under pressure, with the grain of one layer at right angles to the grain of the adjoining layer
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ply•wood

(ˈplaɪˌwʊd)

n.
a building material consisting usu. of an odd number of wood veneers glued over each other, usu. at right angles.
[1905–10]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.plywood - a laminate made of thin layers of woodplywood - a laminate made of thin layers of wood
laminate - a sheet of material made by bonding two or more sheets or layers
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Translations
خَشَبُ أَبْلَكَاشخَشَب مُكَوَّن من طَبَقات
překližka
krydsfinerkrydsfiner-
vaneri
šperploča
furnérlemez
krossviîur
ベニヤ板
합판
preglejka
plywood
ไม้อัด
kontrplakkontrplâk
gỗ dán

plywood

[ˈplaɪwʊd] Nmadera f contrachapada
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plywood

[ˈplaɪwʊd] ncontreplaqué m
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

plywood

nSperrholz nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

plywood

[ˈplaɪˌwʊd] n(legno) compensato
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

ply2

(plai) noun
a thickness, layer or strand, as in three-ply / two-ply wool.
ˈplywood noun, adjective
(of) a material made up of thin layers of wood glued together. a plywood box.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

plywood

خَشَبُ أَبْلَكَاش překližka krydsfiner Sperrholz κοντραπλακέ contrachapado, madera laminada vaneri contreplaqué šperploča compensato ベニヤ板 합판 triplex kryssfinér sklejka contraplacado, madeira compensada фанера plywood ไม้อัด kontrplak gỗ dán 胶合板
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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Under such condition, the plies in plywoods separate.
If roofs, walls, floors and ceilings are still good, reinforcing or weather-proofing the house using marine plywood is not a bad idea to make it fail-safe, especially with family coming over for the summer vacation.
DURING WORLD WAR II, a severe "manpower" shortage on Vancouver Island prompted the management of Alberni Plywoods Limited -- located in Port Alberni, BC -- to hire scores of local women to work in its plywood factory producing ammunition boxes, airplane parts, and other war-related materials.
The present research was performed with an aim to develop an alternative preservative treatment method for marine- and shuttering-grade plywood. Per Indian Standards, 12 kg/[m.sup.3] of retention is required in marine- and shuttering- grade plywood, which is very difficult to achieve.
The authors concluded that neither CCA nor ACZA pretreatment produced negative effects on tensile strengths of plywood tested.
In this study, the suitability of using veneer made from a mountain pine beetle (MPB)-attacked log supply in the manufacture of specialty plywood was investigated in comparison to veneer made from interior Douglas-fir.
In structural panel markets, Canadian softwood plywood (CSP) competes directly with oriented strandboard (OSB).