plaster
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Old English plaster, from late Latin plastrum, shortened from Classical Latin emplastrum (“a plaster, bandage”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman plastre.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, Geordie) IPA(key): /ˈplɑː.stə/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /ˈpla.stə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈplæs.tɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ), -æstə(ɹ)
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Noun edit
plaster (countable and uncountable, plural plasters)
- (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
- (countable, Britain, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
- (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; render, stucco.
- (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
- (uncountable) Plaster of Paris.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
healing paste
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adhesive bandage — see band-aid
mixture for coating
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cast
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plaster of Paris — see plaster of Paris
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Verb edit
plaster (third-person singular simple present plasters, present participle plastering, simple past and past participle plastered)
- (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
- to plaster a wall
- (transitive) To apply a plaster to.
- to plaster a wound
- (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
- Her face was plastered with mud.
- (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
- The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.
- 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
- 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.
- (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm with (weapons) fire.
- 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 30:36 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships![1], archived from the original on 4 July 2022:
- 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.
- (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
to cover with plaster
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to smear with some viscous or liquid substance
to cover up, as with plaster
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Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse plástr, borrowed from Middle Low German plaster, plāster, from Old Saxon plāstar, from Proto-West Germanic *plastr.
Noun edit
plaster n (singular definite plastret or plasteret, plural indefinite plastre)
Inflection edit
Declension of plaster
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | plaster | plastret plasteret |
plastre | plastrene |
genitive | plasters | plastrets plasterets |
plastres | plastrenes |
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Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from German Pflaster, from Old High German pflastar, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plaster m inan (diminutive plasterek)
- plaster, sticking plaster, band-aid
- Synonym: przylepiec
- slice (thin, broad piece cut off from a whole)
- comb, honeycomb
Declension edit
Declension of plaster
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Swedish edit
Noun edit
plaster