noun
- a large flat piece of building material used to cover the interior walls of buildings, typically made of gypsum plaster pressed between sheets of paper
Usage: construction
Examples
- The contractor installed wallboard throughout the new house.
- We need to patch the hole in the wallboard before painting.
- Wallboard is easier to work with than traditional plaster walls.
- The electrician cut openings in the wallboard for the outlets.
- Standard wallboard comes in four-foot by eight-foot sheets.
- They hung wallboard on all the interior walls of the addition.