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plaster English

Meaning plaster meaning

What does plaster mean?
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plaster Noun

— Plaster is a mix of lime or gypsum and sand which becomes hard when water is added. Builders use plaster to put a smooth coating on walls and ceilings. — A bandage or medical dressing is also called a plaster. The doctor put a plaster over the deep cut on the boy's arm.

plaster Verb

— To plaster is to put a mix of lime, sand and water on a surface. She plastered the new wall in the bedroom. — To plaster is to put a dressing on a wound. — To plaster can mean to cover, hide or stick something completely as if you were using plaster. He got very angry when his new car was plastered with bird droppings. — To plaster can mean to use force or cause damage. The city was plastered with bombs during the war.

plaster

— noun a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings — verb apply a heavy coat to — verb apply a plaster cast to plaster the broken arm — verb (= daub) coat with plaster daub the wall — verb affix conspicuously She plastered warnings all over the wall — verb (= beplaster) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco — noun adhesive tape used in dressing wounds — noun a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) there were cracks in the plaster — noun (= plaster of Paris) 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 — verb (= poultice) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance — noun (= poultice) 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

Synonyms plaster synonyms

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plaster English » English

smear mortar daub poultice gypsum stucco sticking plaster plaster of Paris paste paint parget ointment cement adhesive plaster adhesive bandage glue cast salve plasterwork plaster cast coat beplaster apply wipe whitewash white-wash stick on spread plastering plaster over lime grout fill cover caulk cataplasm calcinate bond bedaub bandaid bandage band-aid adhesive tape window dressing viscous varnish unguent thick ointment thick swab

Topics plaster topics

What do people use plaster to talk about?
Person Healthy

Treat disease
Work and occupation

Working with buildings
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building materials
Work and occupation Tool

Fastening tool
Physical actions Move something Cover

Spread, smear
Physical actions Arrange

Join, attach

Conjugation plaster conjugation

How do you conjugate plaster?

plaster · verb

Examples plaster examples

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Simple sentences

Mom applied the plaster to the cut.
He saw a small plaster on her left knee.
Has the plaster set?
I'll plaster this wall with holiday photos.
A plasterer is a craftsman who applies plaster on walls.
Being alone is above all just a kind of mental plaster cast, in which something heals.

Movie subtitles

We'd be taking a full plaster cast of Susan's body to help us.
It's made of plaster!
A massive plaster.
Here's plaster in his eyes.
Plaster. Sorry, Mother.
Plaster?
Flour mixed with plaster.
When plaster gets wet it hardens.
Take him home, and I'll call as soon as my wife's plaster.
A plaster Sphinx and an enamelled Louis XIV chandelier!
I think it would be such a good idea if I made Mr. Robinson a nice, hot mustard plaster.
Except when things get tough, stick to him like plaster.
Zelenko said to stick to you like plaster.
The navy's gonna plaster the hills with everything they've got.
I have a perfectly marvelous plaster.
I said you had dirty plaster.
That little plaster saint.
Between the drawers you'll find a key fastened with court plaster.
There's plaster in his eyes.
Gonna get all those chorus cuties to autograph that plaster shank of yours.
Plaster.
Oh dear, so now it's bullet holes in me plaster.
But shooting holes in my beautiful plaster.
All these broken plates, plaster ornament, bric-a-brac, why was all this china mashed and nothing else disturbed?
Why mess about with the plaster?
And there's too much china, Watson and too little plaster, which leads me to suspect that the greater conceals the less and if the china was smashed to cover up the plaster.
Now, I've got to fix your mustard plaster. - Mm.
The wall's covered in plaster.
Then the plaster broken out of the walls, and the boards removed carefully.
Three months in a plaster cast the last time.
Mustard plaster, huh?
After all, you made me a mustard plaster, didn't you?
Why would Miss Holloway want to turn her into a plaster saint?
Maybe she likes plaster saints.
Doctor, there is a flea in my plaster cast.
And the plaster.!
Even on a plaster leg in a window.
Next Wednesday I emerge from this. plaster cocoon.

News and current affairs

Film of Stanculescu at the time show that he had dispensed with his plaster cast.
Europe's leaders have so far applied only plaster to the wounds.

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