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Hardwood vs. Plywood — What's the Difference?

Hardwood vs. Plywood — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Hardwood and Plywood

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Hardwood

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests.

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).

Hardwood

The wood of a eudicot or a magnoliid, such as an oak, maple, or magnolia.

Plywood

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

Hardwood

A eudicot or magnoliid tree.
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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.

Hardwood

The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.
Balsa is a hardwood, but a soft hardwood.

Plywood

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

Hardwood

(countable) (in more general use) As the preceding, but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.
Ash, hickory and oak are some of the most prominent domestic hardwoods.

Plywood

(transitive) To fit or block up with plywood.

Hardwood

The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.
This hardwood has been planted extensively throughout the hills here.

Plywood

A laminate made of thin layers of wood

Hardwood

(uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.
You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk.

Hardwood

The sport of basketball, in particular, an indoor basketball court; so named because the floor of an indoor basketball court is normally made of hardwood.

Hardwood

(of a floor) Made of interlocking hardwood boards.

Hardwood

The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers); also items made from such wood; as, decorative hardwood.

Hardwood

Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak; consisting of a hardwood; as, hardwood floors; - of wood and wooden objects.

Hardwood

The wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees (as distinguished from the wood of conifers)

Hardwood

Made of the hard-to-cut wood of a broad-leaved tree, as e.g. oak;
Hardwood floors

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