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Groundwood vs Freesheet – What’s the difference?

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Groundwood vs Freesheet - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between groundwood and freesheet is that groundwood is (paper industry) wood that has been mechanically ground for pulp or direct use to produce certain kinds of paper or board; mechanical pulp while freesheet is (chiefly|uk) a free newspaper.

groundwood

English

Noun

(en-noun)

  • (paper industry) Wood that has been mechanically ground for pulp or direct use to produce certain kinds of paper or board; mechanical pulp.

    • Hypernyms

    * pulp

    Hyponyms

    * (paper industry) SGW, PGW, RMP, TMP

    See also

    *

    freesheet

    English

    Alternative forms

    * free sheet (paper industry)
    * free-sheet

    Noun

  • (chiefly, UK) A free newspaper.
  • * 2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 108:
    • A helpful assistant suggested a local newspaper for English-speaking residents, but after a taxi ride to La Napoule I found only the back-street office of a free-sheet listing properties for sale, swimming-pool constructors and dealers in used Mercedes.
  • (uncountable, countable, paper industry) A sheet of paper that does not contain groundwood.

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