plaster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English plaster, plastre, from Old English plaster, from late Latin plastrum, shortened from Classical Latin emplastrum (“a plaster, bandage”); later reinforced by Anglo-Norman plastre. Displaced native Old English clīþa.
The verb is from Middle English plastren, from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: plasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plaister
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: plastre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: plasters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plastering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plastered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plastered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: plaister
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: plastre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
New-Zealand
UK
countable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)
gloss: A similar material used for exterior walls.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Plaster of Paris.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to plaster a wall
gloss: To apply a plaster to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to plaster a wound
gloss: To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her face was plastered with mud.
gloss: To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To smooth over.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Related words: cement board
lath
gypsum board
gyprock
wallboard
sheetrock
drywall
Derived words: beplaster
blister plaster
corn plaster
gypsum plaster
mustard-plaster
mustard plaster
plasterless
plasterlike
plasterly
plasterman
plaster room
plaster saint
plaster-stone
plasterwork
plastery
quicksilver plaster
shinplaster
stick plaster
strengthening plaster
unplaster
plasterboard
court plaster
plasterable
plastered
plasterer
replaster
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: pleister
lang: Armenian
word: գաջել
roman: gaǰel
lang: Catalan
word: arrebossar
lang: Catalan
word: enguixar
lang: Danish
word: pudse
lang: Danish
word: kalke
lang: Danish
word: gipse
lang: Dutch
word: stuken
lang: Finnish
word: rapata
lang: French
word: enduire
lang: French
word: plâtrer
lang: Galician
word: recebar
lang: German
word: vergipsen
lang: German
word: putzen
lang: German
word: verputzen
lang: German
word: überziehen
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κονιάω
roman: koniáō
lang: Hungarian
word: vakol
lang: Hungarian
word: bevakol
lang: Irish
word: plástráil
lang: Irish
word: dóibeáil
lang: Māori
word: whakapiri raima
lang: Paicî
word: tämî
lang: Polish
word: tynkować
lang: Portuguese
word: engessar
lang: Romanian
word: tencui
lang: Spanish
word: estucar
lang: Spanish
word: emplastar
lang: Spanish
word: enyesar
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: آلچیلامق
roman: alçılamak