plaster

Speech parts

1. plaster - Noun

2. plaster - Verb

3. Plaster - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

daub coat plastering spread cover cast apply cement mortar paste smear stucco bandage smother smudge
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Antonyms

work develop screen floor explain strip
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Hypernyms

surface coat dress cover mixture dressing

Hyponyms

mud mortar stucco grout roughcast spackle

Phrases with the word

bonding plaster fine wall plaster lime plaster land plaster adobe plaster finishing plaster

Derivatives

plastered plastering

Anagrams

palster persalt psalter stapler plastre lapster

Examples

The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters Source: Internet

She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco Source: Internet

daub the wall Source: Internet

there were cracks in the plaster Source: Internet

plaster the broken arm Source: Internet

She plastered warnings all over the wall Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Plassey plasson plasteel plaster bandage plaster cast plaster of Paris