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Chipboard vs. Plywood — What's the Difference?

Chipboard vs. Plywood — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Chipboard and Plywood

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Chipboard

A pasteboard made from discarded paper.

Plywood

Plywood is a material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another. It is an engineered wood from the family of manufactured boards which include medium-density fibreboard (MDF), oriented strand board (OSB) and particle board (chipboard).

Chipboard

A building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin.

Plywood

A structural material made of layers of wood glued together, usually with the grains of adjoining layers at right angles to each other.

Chipboard

A cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin.
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Plywood

(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.
After the hurricane there was a severe regional shortage of plywood, especially exterior plywood.

Chipboard

A cheap hard material made from wood chips that are pressed together and bound with synthetic resin

Plywood

(countable) A specific grade or type of this construction material.
We stock exterior plywoods, interior plywoods, and furniture plywoods.

Plywood

(transitive) To fit or block up with plywood.

Plywood

A laminate made of thin layers of wood

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