PLYWOOD

plywood, plyboard

(noun) a laminate made of thin layers of wood

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

plywood (usually uncountable, plural plywoods)

(uncountable) Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.

(countable) A specific grade or type of this construction material.

Verb

plywood (third-person singular simple present plywoods, present participle plywooding, simple past and past participle plywooded)

(transitive) To fit or block up with plywood.

Source: Wiktionary



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23 November 2024

THEORETICAL

(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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