Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
2. (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
3. (uncountable) 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. A similar material used for exterior walls.
5. (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
6. (by ellipsis, uncountable) Plaster of Paris.
7. (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
8. (transitive) To apply a plaster to.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)

to plaster a wall

to plaster a wound

Her face was plastered with mud.

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 haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.

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 to McInnis, in art, context is everything.

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.

Word Forms

• plasters
• plaister
• plastre
• plastering
• plastered

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