Meanings
plural drywalls · alternative dry wall
- countableuncountableA building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
Selenite is calcium sulfate, the same chemical substance (gypsum) from which drywall is made. In other words, this is crystal drywall.
2014, Theodore Gray, photography by Nick Mann, Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, 2018 Paperback Edition, page 991 more example
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.
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 - countableuncountableA stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.
present singular third person drywalls · participle present drywalling · participle past drywalled · past drywalled · alternative dry wall
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo install and finish drywall.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian гипсокартон
- гипсокартон (gipsokarton)building material
Catalan cartró-guix
- cartró-guixbuilding material
Chinese Mandarin 乾墻 /干墙, 石膏板
- 乾墻 /干墙 (gānqiáng)building material
- 石膏板 (shígāobǎn)building material
- 乾壁 /干壁 (gānbì)building material
Danish gipsplade
- gipspladebuilding material
Dutch gipsplaat, gipskarton
- gipsplaatbuilding material
- gipskartonbuilding material
Finnish kipsilevy
- kipsilevybuilding material
French plaque de plâtre, cloison sèche
- plaque de plâtrebuilding material
- cloison sèchebuilding material
German Gipskarton, Gipskartonplatte
- Gipskartonbuilding material
- Gipskartonplattebuilding material
- Trockenbauwandbuilding material
- Trockenmauerbuilding material
- Gipskartonwandbuilding material
Hungarian gipszkarton
- gipszkartonbuilding material
Irish ballachlár
- ballachlárbuilding material
Italian cartongesso
- cartongessobuilding material
Japanese 石膏ボード
- 石膏ボード (sekkōbōdo)building material
Korean 석고판
- 석고판 (seokgopan)building material
Norwegian gipsplate
- gipsplatebuilding material
Polish płyta gipsowo-kartonowa, płyta karton-gips
- płyta gipsowo-kartonowabuilding material
- płyta karton-gipsbuilding material
- płyta regipsowabuilding material
- regipsbuilding material
Portuguese gesso acartonado, gesso cartonado
- gesso acartonadobuilding material
- gesso cartonadobuilding material
- pladurbuilding material
Romanian gips-carton, rigips
- gips-cartonbuilding material
- rigipsbuilding material
Russian гипсокарто́н, штукатурка
- гипсокарто́н (gipsokartón)building material
- штукатурка (štukaturka)building material
Spanish cartón yeso, tablero yeso
- cartón yesobuilding material
- tablero yesobuilding material
- pladurbuilding material
Swedish gipsskiva, gipsplatta
- gipsskivabuilding material
- gipsplattabuilding material
Turkish alçıpan
- alçıpanbuilding material
Ukrainian гіпсокарто́н
- гіпсокарто́н (hipsokartón)building material
Cite this entry
drywall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drywall
“drywall.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drywall. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drywall,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drywall.
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