plaster

A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.

Noun

  1. A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
  2. A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
  3. A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
    • Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)

    Synonyms: render stucco grout

  4. A similar material used for exterior walls.

    Synonyms: stucco

  5. A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
  6. Plaster of Paris.

Origin

From Middle English plaster, plastre, from Old English plaster, from late Latin plastrum, shortened from Classical Latin emplastrum (“a plaster, bandage”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman plastre. Displaced native Old English clīþa. The verb is from Middle English plastren, from the noun.

Forms

plasters plaister plastre

Related

cement board lath gypsum board gyprock sheetrock wallboard drywall

Derived

beplaster blister plaster corn plaster gypsum plaster mustard-plaster mustard plaster plasterboard plasterless plasterlike plasterly plasterman plaster room plaster saint plaster-stone plasterwork plastery quicksilver plaster shinplaster stick plaster strengthening plaster unplaster

Verb

  1. To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
    • to plaster a wall
  2. To apply a plaster to.
    • to plaster a wound
  3. To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
    • Her face was plastered with mud.
  4. To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
    • The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.
    • If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is...
    • Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained...
  5. To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
    • Yeah, if you think that was bad... having, obviously, here, being people in the modern day and knowing something about the historical tactics used at the Battle of Samar, we did have, at one point, the American...
  6. To smooth over.

Forms

plasters plastering plastered plaister plastre

Related

drywall sheetrock

Derived

court plaster plasterable plasterboard plastered plasterer replaster