Meaning of 'plaster' (Webster Dictionary)
- 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.
Meaning of 'plaster' (Princeton's WordNet)
Meaning (1):
- a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
Example in sentence:- there were cracks in the plaster
Meaning (2):
- coat with plaster
Meaning (3):
- apply a plaster cast to
Meaning (4):
- cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
Example in sentence:- She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco;
- The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters
Meaning (5):
- affix conspicuously
Example in sentence:- She plastered warnings all over the wall
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