Band-aid Alternative forms
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Etymology
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From the trademark Band-Aid bandage aid
Pronunciation
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band -aid plural band-aids
( Australia , Canada , US ) adhesive bandage , a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound .( Australia , Canada , US , informal ) temporary or makeshift solution to a problem , created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight .
1968 , United Church Observer , n 15 (March), p 36:
It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore. Synonyms
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Translations
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adhesive bandage
Arabic: ضِمَادَة f ( ḍimāda ) , لاصِق طِبِّي m ( lāṣiq ṭibbī )
Gulf Arabic: لزاق m ( lazzāg ) , بلاستر m ( blāstar, plāstar )
Belarusian: лейкапла́стыр m ( ljejkaplástyr ) , пла́стыр m ( plástyr )
Bislama: banded
Bulgarian: пласти́р (bg) m ( plastír )
Catalan: tireta (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 創可貼 ／ 创可贴 (zh) ( chuàngkětiē ) , 邦迪 (zh) ( bāngdí ) , OK繃 ／ OK绷 (zh) ( ōukēibèng, ōukēibàng ) ( chiefly Taiwan )
Czech: náplast (cs) f leukoplast m
Danish: plaster n hæfteplaster (da) n
Dutch: pleister (nl) f
Esperanto: bandaĝo (eo) , sparadrapo
Estonian: plaaster
Finnish: laastari (fi)
French: pansement (fr) m sparadrap (fr) m
Galician: banda (gl) f
Georgian: სალბუნი ( salbuni )
German: Pflaster (de) n ( for clarity ) Wundpflaster (de) n Heftpflaster (de) n ( medical ) Wundschnellverband m ( dated ) Leukoplast (de) n
Greek: λευκοπλάστης (el) m ( lefkoplástis )
Hebrew: פְּלַסְטֶר (he) m ( pláster )
Hungarian: sebtapasz (hu) , ragtapasz (hu) , gyorstapasz tapasz (hu) , kötszer (hu)
Ingrian: plaasteri
Irish: plástar m greimlín m
Italian: cerotto (it) m
Japanese: 絆創膏 (ja) ( ばんそうこう, bansōkō ) , バンドエイド ( bandoeido )
Korean: 반창고 (ko) ( banchanggo ) , 밴드에이드 ( baendeueideu )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: фластер m ( flaster )
Maori: tāpi
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norman: empliâtre m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: plaster n
Occitan: pensament (oc) m
Polish: plaster (pl) m przylepiec m
Portuguese: penso (pt) m band-aid (pt) m
Romanian: plasture (ro) m
Russian: лейкопла́стырь (ru) m ( lejkoplástyrʹ ) , пла́стырь (ru) m ( plástyrʹ )
Sardinian: tzerotu m cerotu m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фла̏стер m
Roman: flȁster (sh) m
Slovak: leukoplast m
Slovene: obliž (sl) m
Spanish: ( Latin America ) curita (es) f ( Chile ) parche curita (es) , tirita (es) f ( Spain ) apósito (es) m esparadrapo (es) m
Swedish: plåster (sv) n
Tagalog: koritas
Turkish: yara bandı (tr)
Ukrainian: лейкопла́стир m ( lejkoplástyr ) , пла́стир m ( plástyr )
Vietnamese: băng cá nhân băng keo cá nhân
Wolof: esparadaraa
temporary or makeshift solution
Further reading
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band -aid third-person singular simple present band-aids present participle band-aiding simple past and past participle band-aided
To apply an adhesive bandage.
As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig .
Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message. Translations
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to apply an adhesive bandage
to apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig
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