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plas·ter (pl

1. A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with fiber added, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.

2. Plaster of Paris.

3. A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes. Also called sticking plaster.

4. Chiefly British An adhesive bandage.

v. plas·tered, plas·ter·ing, plas·ters

v.tr.

1. To cover, coat, or repair with plaster.

2. To cover or hide with or as if with a coat of plaster: plastered over our differences.

3. To apply a plaster to: plaster an aching muscle.

a. To cover conspicuously, as with things pasted on; overspread: plaster the walls with advertising.

b. To affix conspicuously, usually with a paste: plaster notices on all the doors.

5. To make smooth by applying a sticky substance: plaster one's hair with pomade.

6. To make adhere to another surface: "His hair was plastered to his forehead" William Golding.

7. Informal

a. To inflict heavy damage or injury on.

b. To defeat decisively.

v.intr.

To apply plaster.

[Middle English, from Old English, medical dressing, and from Old French plastre, cementing material, both from Latin emplastrum, medical dressing, from Greek emplastron, from emplassein, to plaster on : en-, in, on; see en-² + plassein, to mold; see pel-² in Indo-European roots.]

plaster·er n.

plaster·y adj.

plaster

Noun

1. a mixture of lime, sand, and water that is applied to a wall or ceiling as a soft paste and dries as a hard coating

2. Brit, Austral, & NZ an adhesive strip of material for dressing a cut or wound

3. short for mustard plaster or plaster of Paris

Verb

1. to coat (a wall or ceiling) with plaster

2. to apply like plaster: he plastered his face with shaving cream

3. to cause to lie flat or to adhere: his hair was plastered to his forehead [Greek emplastron healing dressing]

plasterer n

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Noun	1.	plaster - a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings finish coat, finishing coat - the final coating of plaster applied to walls and ceilings; "we can't paint until they put on the finishing coat" mixture - (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding) covering material - a material used by builders to cover surfaces grout - a thin mortar that can be poured and used to fill cracks in masonry or brickwork parget, pargeting, pargetting - plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys roughcast - a coarse plaster for the surface of external walls spackle, spackling compound - powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster stucco - a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces
	2.	plaster - 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 plaster of Paris gesso - gypsum or plaster of Paris spread on a surface to make it suitable for painting or gilding (or a surface so prepared) gypsum - a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris) calcium sulfate, calcium sulphate - a white salt (CaSO4)
	3.	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. cataplasm, poultice medical dressing, dressing - a cloth covering for a wound or sore mustard plaster, sinapism - a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient
	4.	plaster - a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling); "there were cracks in the plaster" plasterwork pargetry, pargetting, pargeting - ornamental plasterwork surface - the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface"
	5.	plaster - adhesive tape used in dressing wounds adhesive plaster, sticking plaster adhesive tape - tape coated with adhesive court plaster - a plaster composed of isinglass on silk; formerly used to dress superficial wounds
Verb	1.	plaster - apply a heavy coat to plaster over, stick on cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers"
	2.	plaster - 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" beplaster cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers" plaster - affix conspicuously; "She plastered warnings all over the wall"
	3.	plaster - affix conspicuously; "She plastered warnings all over the wall" affix, stick on - attach to; "affix the seal here" beplaster, plaster - 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"
	4.	plaster - apply a plaster cast to; "plaster the broken arm" cover - provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers"
	5.	plaster - coat with plaster; "daub the wall" daub masonry - the craft of a mason coat, surface - put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface; "coat the cake with chocolate" daub - apply to a surface; "daub paint onto the wall" render-set - cover with two coats of plaster; "render-set the walls so they'll look nice and smooth" parget - apply ornamental plaster to roughcast - apply roughcast to; "roughcast a wall" mud - plaster with mud mortar - plaster with mortar; "mortar the wall"
	6.	plaster - dress by covering with a therapeutic substance poultice practice of medicine, medicine - the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" dress - apply a bandage or medication to; "dress the victim's wounds"