DRY WALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dry wall mean? 

• DRY WALL (noun)
  The noun DRY WALL has 2 senses:

1. a 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

2. a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar

  Familiarity information: DRY WALL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRY WALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A 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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dry wall; drywall; wallboard

Hypernyms ("dry wall" is a kind of...):

board (a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dry wall"):

beaver board (a light wallboard made of compressed wood pulp)

fiberboard; fibreboard; particle board (wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets)

gypsum board; plasterboard (wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bonded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

dry-stone wall; dry wall

Hypernyms ("dry wall" is a kind of...):

dry masonry (masonry without mortar)

stone wall (a fence built of rough stones; used to separate fields)