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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
plaster
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plaster cast
plaster of Paris
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sticking
▪ Where was the chemist's shop to buy a tube of sun-tan lotion or a sticking plaster?
▪ More sticking plaster and more blood all over his hands.
▪ So had Adam, judging by the sticking plaster on his chin.
▪ Dot was shown to her bed where a notice was taped with pink sticking plaster to the end rail.
▪ If you're affected, cover watch backs with hypoallergenic sticking plaster and use rubber guards on earrings.
▪ Safety pins; Sticking plaster on a roll.
▪ Sprawled on the floor with hands and feet tied and sticking plaster over his mouth was my friend Toby.
▪ A sprig of holly with three berries was taped with sticking plaster to the wall over her desk.
white
▪ The gold covering may be flaking away, exposing the white plaster, or gesso, underneath.
▪ Each was low and irregular, plain white plaster walls with prominent wooden spars bracing the ceiling and an open stone fireplace.
▪ Tom had swept the room clean and had fixed a lamp to a hook on the white plaster ceiling.
▪ A white waterfall of plaster burst down from the ceiling and slapped and pattered all over him.
▪ A white plaster trumpet vase joins the white plaster face chair on set.
■ NOUN
cast
▪ Non-playing colleagues rushed him to the local casualty department, where a large plaster cast was fixed on to the injured area.
▪ Rather like Steve, who makes plaster casts of the vulva for drawer handles.
▪ One medium even claimed to have made a plaster cast of a pair of ectoplasmic hands before they dissolved.
ceiling
▪ Tom had swept the room clean and had fixed a lamp to a hook on the white plaster ceiling.
▪ Inside the quality finishes include cherry wood panelling, decorative plaster ceilings and marble floors.
▪ As well as the painted decoration, the Eastons are fortunate in also having two good plaster ceilings.
wall
▪ The plaster walls were damp and cracked, the floor unswept, its stones stained with dried blood and excrement.
▪ Awad and his family have lived within the pink and green plaster walls of their three small rooms for ten years.
▪ The plaster walls were covered with photographs of men and women who had fallen in battle.
▪ Each was low and irregular, plain white plaster walls with prominent wooden spars bracing the ceiling and an open stone fireplace.
▪ The bulge was taking place about midway in the plaster wall.
▪ There was one lamp fixed to a plaster wall half way to the street, aiming a bright circle on the unpaved ground.
■ VERB
put
▪ It was not felt necessary to put the fracture in plaster.
▪ Thomas will also miss most of those matches after having his right ankle put in plaster to repair ligament damage.
stick
▪ But this sticking plaster is not going to stop the slow haemorrhaging of permanent staff from these schools.
▪ White kicked off her shoes and the audience howled, for under her fishnet stockings were toes stuck with corn plasters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bronzes are created by building sand moulds of a plaster original, in itself a skilled and labour intensive job.
▪ It was mightily impressive bowling by any standards, and with his left hand in plaster it was quite remarkable.
▪ Rather like Steve, who makes plaster casts of the vulva for drawer handles.
▪ The bone has failed to knit properly and his hand must remain in plaster.
▪ The midfield player broke an arm during the midweek draw with Arsenal and will be in plaster for six weeks.
▪ There was a plaster model of the Eiffel Tower in there.
▪ Three days after that, a plaster jacket was fitted from her shoulders to her hips.
▪ When hardened, smooth down with abrasive paper, then seal with plaster primer.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
▪ A lorry rolled past us along the road, its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust.
▪ All the surfaces were pale ochre mud and dung which the women plastered over stone each year.
▪ Cracks began to appear - and were plastered over.
▪ And sometimes ancient tensions and animosities had been merely plastered over.
■ NOUN
hair
▪ When mixed with warm water the powder became a dense paste which Frankie plastered all over her hair.
▪ The rain had plastered her hair to her forehead.
▪ She made the shallow end and stood up, plastering her hair back with her hands.
wall
▪ The room had roughly plastered walls and a low ceiling supported on enormous joists trimmed out of whole trees.
▪ There is a broadsheet plastered crookedly to a wall near their bungalow.
▪ They've also been plastered on walls usually reserved for political propaganda.
▪ Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The news of the wedding was plastered all over the morning papers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lorry rolled past us along the road, its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust.
▪ A team of builders from the coast are still plastering the vaults of the vestibule which even with scaffolding are out of reach.
▪ All the surfaces were pale ochre mud and dung which the women plastered over stone each year.
▪ He clasped the royal hand and plastered it with three lingering kisses.
▪ Small Jerichos plaster patches of basalt in the new flows of warm water.
▪ The next time we come across that creep, he's plastered.
▪ There is a broadsheet plastered crookedly to a wall near their bungalow.
▪ They report he appears to be drinking heavily, and occasionally shows up plastered at the office.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plaster

Plaster \Plas"ter\, n. [AS., a plaster (in sense 1), fr. L. emplastrum, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? to daub on, stuff in; ? in + ? to mold: cf. OF. plastre a plaster (in sense 2), F. pl[^a]tre. Cf. Plastic, Emplaster, Piaster.] [Formerly written also plaister.]

  1. (Med.) An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

  2. A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.

  3. Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.

    Plaster cast, a copy of an object obtained by pouring plaster of Paris mixed with water into a mold.

    Plaster of Paris. [So called because originally brought from a suburb of Paris.] (Chem.) Anhydrous calcium sulphate, or calcined gypsum, which forms with water a paste which soon sets or hardens, and is used for casts, moldings, etc. The term is loosely applied to any plaster stone or species of gypsum.

    Plaster of Paris bandage (Surg.), a bandage saturated with a paste of plaster of Paris, which on drying forms a perfectly fitting splint.

    Plaster stone, any species of gypsum. See Gypsum.

Plaster

Plaster \Plas"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plastered; p. pr. & vb. n. Plastering.] [Cf. OF. plastrer to plaster (in sense 2), F. pl[^a]trer.]

  1. To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.

  2. To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.

  3. Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.
    --Bale.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plaster

late Old English plaster "medicinal application," from Vulgar Latin plastrum, shortened from Latin emplastrum "a plaster" (in the medical as well as the building sense), from Greek emplastron "salve, plaster" (used by Galen instead of more usual emplaston), noun use of neuter of emplastos "daubed on," from en- "on" + plastos "molded," from plassein "to mold" (see plasma). The building construction material is first recorded in English c.1300, via Old French plastre, from the same source, and in early use the English word often had the French spelling.

plaster

"to coat with plaster," early 14c., from plaster (n.) and partly Old French plastrier "to cover with plaster" (Modern French plâtrer), from plastre (see plaster (n.). Related: Plastered; plastering. Figurative use from c.1600. Meaning "to bomb (a target) heavily" is first recorded 1915. Sports sense of "to defeat decisively" is from 1919.

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Wiktionary
plaster

n. 1 (context uncountable English) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes. 2 (context countable New Zealand British English) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster. 3 (context uncountable English) 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. 4 (context countable English) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast. 5 (context uncountable English) plaster of Paris. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cover or coat something with plaster, or apply a plaster. 2 (context transitive English) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster.

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WordNet
plaster

  1. v. cover conspicuously, as by pasting something on; "The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters"

  2. affix conspicuously; "She plastered warnings all over the wall"

  3. apply a plaster cast to; "plaster the broken arm"

  4. apply a heavy coat to [syn: plaster over, stick on]

  5. coat with plaster; "daub the wall" [syn: daub]

  6. dress by covering with a therapeutic substance [syn: poultice]

plaster

  1. n. a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings

  2. 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 [syn: plaster of Paris]

  3. 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. [syn: poultice, cataplasm]

  4. a hardened surface of plaster (as on a wall or ceiling); "there were cracks in the plaster" [syn: plasterwork]

  5. adhesive tape used in dressing wounds [syn: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster]

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Wikipedia
Plåster

Plåster (lit. Plaster) is the sixth novel by Swedish author Klas Östergren. It was published in 1986.

Plaster (band)

Plaster is a Canadian electro-jazz/ electro-rock band formed in 2001 in Montreal. Their sound has been compared to such artists as Amon Tobin, Kruder & Dorfmeister and Medeski Martin & Wood. The trio's debut album, First Aid Kit, was released on Nov 10, 2005 and won the ADISQ award for Best Electronic or Techno Album in 2006.

Plaster (disambiguation)

Plaster is a building material used for coating walls and ceilings.

Plaster may also refer to:

  • Adhesive bandage or sticking plaster, medical dressing for small wounds
  • Poultice, a soft moist mass applied to the body
  • Plaster (band), a Canadian electro-jazz/electro-rock band
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Usage examples of "plaster".

The broken ends of the fractured tibia were badly displaced and we had a struggle to bring them into apposition before applying the plaster of paris.

Opposite the seaplane bases, six TBFs loaded with fragmentation and incendiary bombs peeled off, angled down through the tracers of light and medium AA and plastered their assigned targets.

At the time she had not known about old plaster, old stairs, old walls, nothing about splintered woodwork and senile plumbing-either balky or incontinent.

In some cases the idiosyncrasy to belladonna is so marked that violent symptoms follow the application of the ordinary belladonna plaster.

Maddox describes a ease of poisoning in a music teacher by the belladonna plaster of a reputable maker.

Crystal shivers poured down from the chandelier, the mantelpiece mirror was cracked into stars, plaster dust flew, spent cartridges bounced over the floor, window-panes shattered, benzene spouted from the bullet-pierced primus.

An extract made from the crushed berries by boiling them down to a thick liquor, is, when spread on linen, a capital stimulating plaster for neuralgic or rheumatic parts.

At just that moment, there was a thrashing from the other room, and Valentine Vervain, long red hair liberally beslimed, minus nine-foot train and one of her sleeves, scrambled through the door and plastered herself against the wall, where she promptly passed out.

Under the spruce by the hedgerow, the curie in the three-cornered hat reading his breviary had lost his right foot, and the very plaster, scaling off with the frost, had left white scabs on his face.

Nevertheless, it were difficult otherwise to account for the faintly indicated slant of those little black eyes, the blurred modelling of the nose, the high cheekbones, and the thin thatch of coarse black hair which was plastered down with abundant brilliantine above that mask of pallid features.

He combed the last tufts of hair at his temples upward and plastered them with brilliantine to the middle of his shining skull as a solution to total baldness.

Bryson pulled up in front of his house, a ramshackle Queen Anne-style dwelling with a mansard roof and plaster facade.

JED TURNED HiS HEAD to stare at the wall to his right, wishing Mard was on the other side and that he could punch his fist through the plaster and make a hole big enough to pull her through.

Next, making for a particular spot on the wall, she selected one of the palmettes in the plaster moulding and pressed it, whereupon a section of the green silken panelling slid aside to reveal a metal safe.

Training had been suspended and the wounded penman had been carried off with some excitement and commotion to have a piece of plaster stuck over the damaged place.