| 单词 |
plasterboard |
| 释义 |
plasterboard|ˈplɑːstəˌbɔəd, -æ-|
Also plaster board, plaster-board.
[f. plaster n. II + board n. I.]
A light-weight building board made of gypsum plaster with a reinforcing or strengthening material, now usu. thick paper bonded to both sides of a plaster core. Also attrib. and fig.
1906Sci. Amer. Suppl. 29 Sept. 25703/1 Thin plaster boards are nailed on the rafters. 1914Chem. Abstr. VIII. 2620 Plastic composition for making ‘plaster board’, boxes, etc., formed of straw pulp. 1919Ibid. XIII. 1916 A mixt. for the manuf. of plaster-board is formed of calcined gypsum.., ground tan bark.., a ‘hastener’..and about 30 lbs. H2O for each 100 lbs. of the other ingredients. 1929W. C. Huntington Building Constr. xiv. 464 Plaster board consists of a gypsum plaster core and surfaces of fibrous felt sheets pressed together. 1936Archit. Rev. LXXX. 192 On the inside this is sound-proofed with wood rock, plaster board and American rock-wool in blanket form. 1946Times 9 Sept. 15/6 Plasterboard partitions in existing buildings would serve to provide married quarters. 1956Builders' & Decorators' Ref. Bk. vi. 24 Plaster boards should be fixed with 11/4-in. galvanized French wire nails No. 12 W.G. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai xi. 197 Almost as well known as the actors were the props:..the ‘ruin’ of doric plasterboard which was Ninny's Tomb, Cleopatra's palace and Henry V's tent. 1973A. Ross Dunfermline Affair 72 Our separate rooms had once been one... The wall would probably be less solid than the others, perhaps even only plaster⁓board. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Mar. 281/4 He dithers between the historical figure, who cannot fail at this stage to have some life in him, and the plasterboard Schuyler and his tedious sex life. |
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