Hardwood vs. Plywood

Hardwoodnoun

The wood from any dicotyledonous tree, without regard to its hardness.

Hardwoodnoun

(countable) (in more general use) As the preceding but limited to those that are commercial timbers, and are at least average in hardness.

Hardwoodnoun

The tree or tree species that yields the preceding.

Hardwoodnoun

(uncountable) A joint term for the commercial timbers, without distinguishing which.

Hardwoodnoun

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.

Hardwoodadjective

Of a floor: made of interlocking hardwood boards.

Hardwoodnoun

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.

Hardwoodnoun

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

Hardwoodadjective

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

Hardwood

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

Plywoodnoun

(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.

Plywoodnoun

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

Plywoodverb

(transitive) To fit or block up with plywood.

Plywoodnoun

a laminate made of thin layers of wood

Plywood

Plywood is a material manufactured from thin layers or 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).