plaster
/'plɑ:stə/
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Definition
Noun:
- A medical dressing: A soft, often heated, mixture spread on cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflammation or improve circulation.
- A building material: A mixture, typically of lime or gypsum with sand and water, that hardens into a smooth solid and is used to coat walls and ceilings.
- The hardened surface: The smooth, solid layer formed by this material on a wall or ceiling.
- A sculpting/casting material: A white powder (a form of calcium sulphate/gypsum cement) that forms a paste with water and hardens, used for making molds, sculptures, and casts for broken limbs.
Verb:
- To apply a coating: To cover a surface (like a wall) with plaster.
- To apply a medical dressing: To treat by covering with a therapeutic substance.
- To apply a cast: To immobilize a broken limb with a plaster cast.
- To cover conspicuously: To affix or spread something over a surface in a very noticeable or thick manner.
- To apply heavily: To put a heavy coat of something onto a surface.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- The nurse applied a warm plaster to his sore back.
- We need to buy bags of plaster to repair the wall.
- There was an old crack in the plaster above the door.
- The artist used plaster to make a mold of the sculpture.
Verb:
- They decided to plaster the old brick wall to make it smooth.
- The doctor will plaster the wound to prevent infection.
- After the fracture, they had to plaster his leg.
- Protesters plastered the building with flyers and posters.
- He plastered butter thickly on his toast.
Advanced Usage
"To be plastered" (informal idiom): To be very drunk.
- After three beers, he was completely plastered.
"Plaster over": To cover something (like a problem or a crack) superficially, often as a temporary or inadequate fix.
- They just plastered over the cracks instead of fixing the structural issue.
Variants and Related Words
- Plastered (adj): 1. Covered with plaster. 2. (Slang) Very drunk.
- Plasterer (n): A person whose job is to apply plaster to walls.
- Plasterboard (n): A board made of plaster core between paper sheets, used for walls and ceilings.
- Plaster cast (n): A rigid dressing of gauze and plaster used to immobilize a broken bone.
Synonyms
- Noun (building material): Stucco, render, mortar.
- Noun (dressing): Bandage, dressing, compress.
- Verb (to cover): Daub, smear, coat, spread.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Plaster over: To cover a surface or a flaw with plaster; to conceal something hastily.
- We need to plaster over these holes before painting.
- Plaster with/on: To apply or stick something to a surface in abundance.
- Her desk was plastered with sticky notes.
Related Idioms
- Plaster a smile on one's face: To force oneself to smile, often hiding one's true feelings.
- Even though she was upset, she plastered a smile on her face for the guests.
Noun
- adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
- a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
- there were cracks in the plaster
- a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
- any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs
- a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings
Verb
- dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
- coat with plaster
- daub the wall
- apply a plaster cast to
- plaster the broken arm
- affix conspicuously
- She plastered warnings all over the wall
- cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
- The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters
- She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco
- apply a heavy coat to