Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building material composed of wood chips or plant fibers bonded together and compressed into rigid sheets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a type of wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets, calle also
particle board .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
material made fromwood chips orshavings , which are compressed and bonded withresin and formed into stiff sheets, and used in building or makingfurniture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets
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Examples
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They say fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves.
Cow Manure To Be Used In Furniture And Flooring | Impact Lab 2007
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[Researchers] say that fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in making fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves.
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[Researchers] say that fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in making fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves.
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They say that fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in making fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves.
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Ken Dow n into fibers to be reused in many products such as fiberboard, upholstery or rewoven into new textiles. "
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Ken Dow n into fibers to be reused in many products such as fiberboard, upholstery or rewoven into new textiles. "
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This is bad news for the composite panel industry, which turns these materials into particleboard and medium-density fiberboard, and outranks the U.S. biomass industry in terms of employees and economic impact, with 21,000 employees and annual sales of $7.9 billion, according to 2006 U.S. Census data.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » More Fallout from Biofuel Subsidies 2010
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I'll share one with you: Needing a piece of wood to fill the gap between a screen door and a spring hasp if you don't know what that is, I can't explain it to you, I dismantled a bookcase, removed the back, stacked the books on the floor, and cut off a teensy-tiny piece of fiberboard, solving that problem.
How to Make an Atom Bomb While Your Wife's Away Con Chapman 2011
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On the far wall hangs "Roofline," a big painting on Mr. Artschwager's preferred rough surface of celotex, a fiberboard material used in residential construction.
Feats of Rock, Paint & Clay Peter Plagens 2011
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Cheerfully colored to bring an excitement to your home, it turns out that ‘Twinni’ could also be brought to play as a matt-lacquered MDF (medium density fiberboard) sitting counter with a large storage space capacity.
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