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Plaster
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes. uncountable
- 2 adhesive tape used in dressing wounds wordnet
- 3 A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster. British, Canada, New-Zealand, countable
- 4 a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) wordnet
- 5 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. uncountable
"Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)"
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- 6 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. wordnet
- 7 A similar material used for exterior walls. countable, uncountable
- 8 a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings wordnet
- 9 A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast. countable
- 10 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 wordnet
- 11 Plaster of Paris. uncountable
- 1 To cover or coat something with plaster; to render. transitive
"to plaster a wall"
- 2 dress by covering with a therapeutic substance wordnet
- 3 To apply a plaster to. transitive
"to plaster a wound"
- 4 coat with plaster wordnet
- 5 To smear with some viscous or liquid substance. transitive
"Her face was plastered with mud."
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- 6 apply a heavy coat to wordnet
- 7 To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly. transitive
"The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement."
- 8 apply a plaster cast to wordnet
- 9 To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire). figuratively, transitive
"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 battleline sailing itself into a rain squall, staying in the rain squall, using large numbers of destroyers (with, obviously, all their smoke generators) to increase the cover in the rain squall and maintain it when the wet squall seemed to start dying off, and, through that, they just went "Right, activate radar, hello everybody, we can see you, you can't see us", and plastered everything in 14-and-16-inch gunfire until everything was broken, burning, and not able to fire back, and then they popped out for the coup de grâce."
- 10 affix conspicuously wordnet
- 11 To smooth over. figuratively, transitive
- 12 cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on wordnet
Etymology
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. The verb is from Middle English plastren, from the noun.
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. The verb is from Middle English plastren, from the noun.
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