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plaster en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈplæstɚ/ (US)
• /ˈplastə/ (Northern-England)
• /ˈplastəɻ/ (Ireland)
• /ˈplɑːstə/ (Geordie, Received-Pronunciation, Southern-England)
• /ˈplɐːstə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
• /ˈplastəɾ/ (Scotland)

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.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
   • Then Jill came in, And she did grin, To see Jack's paper plaster; Her mother whipt her, Across her knee, For laughing at Jack's disaster. 1810, Jack and Jill, and old Dame Gill, York: J. Kendrew, page 4:
2. (Canada, New-Zealand, UK, countable) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
3. (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.
   • Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)
4. (countable, uncountable) A similar material used for exterior walls.
5. (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
6. (qualifier:by ellipsis, uncountable) Plaster of Paris.

Forms

Deriveds

corn plaster · plasterless · stick plaster · mustard-plaster · plastery · gypsum plaster · plasterlike · plaster-stone · unplaster · plaster ring · lime plaster · plaster room · shinplaster · beplaster · plasterly · plaster saint · plasterwork · mustard plaster · strengthening plaster · plasterman · plasterboard · blister plaster · quicksilver plaster

Relateds

cement board · gypsum board · sheetrock · gyprock · wallboard · drywall · lath

Synonyms

grout · stucco · stucco · render

Translations (119)

el ασβεστοκονίαμα (mixture for coating) · ar مِلَاط (mixture for coating) · de Wandputz (mixture for coating) · da puds (mixture for coating) · az mala (mixture for coating) · es estuco (mixture for coating) · fr onguent (healing paste) · fi voide (healing paste) · sw lipu (mixture for coating) · sv puts (mixture for coating) · hi प्लास्टर (mixture for coating) · hu gipszkötés (cast) · sv salva (healing paste) · de Salbe (healing paste) · cmn 石膏 (mixture for coating) · ar جِصّ (mixture for coating) · de Putz (mixture for coating) · es yeso (cast) · da gips (cast) · cs sádra (mixture for coating) · de Gips (cast) · es enlucido (mixture for coating) · ga plástar (mixture for coating) · la tectōrium (mixture for coating) · fr enduit (mixture for coating) · tr sıva (mixture for coating) · ru гипс (cast) · grc μάλαγμα (healing paste) · id plester (mixture for coating) · it calco (cast) · de Stuck (mixture for coating) · de Verputz (mixture for coating) · de Abguß (cast) · ga plástar (cast) · pl tynk (mixture for coating) · ca guix (cast) · ko 석고 (mixture for coating) · hy գաջ (mixture for coating) · hy սվաղ (mixture for coating) · fa گچ (mixture for coating) · pdt Pleista (healing paste) · ta பூச்சு (mixture for coating) · gd sglàib (mixture for coating) · ga plástar (healing paste) · es ungüento (healing paste) · de Kalkputz (mixture for coating) · es yeso (mixture for coating) · hi पलस्तर (mixture for coating) · fr plâtre (cast) · da salve (healing paste) · ru мазь (healing paste) · hu gipsz (cast) · el έμπλαστρο (healing paste) · sh малтер (mixture for coating) · pdt Plosta (mixture for coating) · az suvaq (mixture for coating) · ota صیوا (mixture for coating) · de Gipsabguß (cast) · hu vakolat (mixture for coating) · pt gesso (cast) · gl recebo (mixture for coating) · ta காரை (mixture for coating) · ga teilgean plástair (cast) · pl gips (mixture for coating) · de Gipsputz (mixture for coating) · es emplaste (mixture for coating) · it gesso (mixture for coating) · it intonaco (mixture for coating) · de Gipsabdruck (cast) · is gifs (mixture for coating) · ca argamassa (mixture for coating) · grc δρῶπαξ (healing paste) · bg мазилка (mixture for coating) · de Creme (healing paste) · oc gip (cast) · el γύψος (cast) · la fōmentum (healing paste) · ro unguent (healing paste) · fr plâtre (mixture for coating) · sh gips (cast) · bg мехлем (healing paste) · de Gips (mixture for coating) · es revoque (mixture for coating) · pt unguento (healing paste) · es escayola (cast) · it gesso (healing paste) · oc geis (cast) · sh malter (mixture for coating) · ro cremă (healing paste) · it gesso (cast) · mi ukutea (mixture for coating) · ro alifie (healing paste) · es escayola (mixture for coating) · af pleister (mixture for coating) · et krohv (mixture for coating) · sh гипс (cast) · ro tencuială (mixture for coating) · nrf pliâtre (cast) · ar جِبْس (mixture for coating) · pl gips (healing paste) · tr alçı (mixture for coating) · hi लेपन (healing paste) · gl emplasto (healing paste) · ta பூச்சு (healing paste) · de Lehmputz (mixture for coating) · fi kipsivalos (cast) · grc κονίαμα (mixture for coating) · fi laasti (mixture for coating) · it stampo (cast) · de Putzmörtel (mixture for coating) · nrf pliâtre (mixture for coating) · pt gesso (mixture for coating) · ca escaiola (cast) · ru пла́стырь (healing paste) · da gips (mixture for coating) · it unguento (healing paste) · ru штукату́рка (mixture for coating) · de Gipsverband (cast) · sv plåster (healing paste)

wikidata: Q274988 · wikidata: Q33526

plaster en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈplæstɚ/ (US)
• /ˈplastə/ (Northern-England)
• /ˈplastəɻ/ (Ireland)
• /ˈplɑːstə/ (Geordie, Received-Pronunciation, Southern-England)
• /ˈplɐːstə/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
• /ˈplastəɾ/ (Scotland)

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.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
   • to plaster a wall
2. (transitive) To apply a plaster to.
   • to plaster a wound
3. (transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
   • Her face was plastered with mud.
4. (transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
   • The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.
5. (transitive) To cover a surface extensively with something, especially posters, pictures, or notices.
   • 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. 2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Oct 2024:
   • The workmen plastered the wall with pictures.
   • 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. 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
6. (figuratively, transitive) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
   • 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. 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 30:36 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022:
7. (figuratively, transitive) To smooth over.

Forms

Deriveds

plasterable · replaster · plastered · plasterer · court plaster · plasterboard

Relateds

sheetrock · drywall

Translations (51)

fi tapetoida (to cover up, as with plaster) · pl tynkować (to cover with plaster) · es emplastar (to cover with plaster) · hu vakol (to cover with plaster) · af pleister (to cover with plaster) · ga plástráil (to cover with plaster) · fi peittää (to cover up, as with plaster) · grc κονιάω (to cover with plaster) · de verputzen (to cover with plaster) · da pudse (to cover with plaster) · nl stuken (to cover with plaster) · da klistre (to cover up, as with plaster) · de vergipsen (to cover up, as with plaster) · mi whakapiri raima (to cover with plaster) · de gipsen (to smear with some viscous or liquid substance) · ga plástráil (to smear with some viscous or liquid substance) · ca enguixar (to cover with plaster) · ga clúdaigh (to smear with some viscous or liquid substance) · hu beborít (to cover up, as with plaster) · ota آلچیلامق (to cover with plaster) · hu befed (to cover up, as with plaster) · de vergipsen (to cover with plaster) · ga plástráil (to apply a plaster to) · de übertünchen (to cover up, as with plaster) · hu bevakol (to cover with plaster) · de putzen (to cover with plaster) · ga dóibeáil (to cover with plaster) · de überziehen (to cover with plaster) · fi rapata (to cover with plaster) · ota آلچیلامق (to apply a plaster to) · pri tämî (to cover with plaster) · ga brataigh (to cover up, as with plaster) · fr plâtrer (to cover with plaster) · da overklistre (to cover up, as with plaster) · hu telerak (to cover up, as with plaster) · fi teipata (to cover up, as with plaster) · ga cumhdaigh (to smear with some viscous or liquid substance) · pt engessar (to cover with plaster) · es estucar (to cover with plaster) · es enyesar (to cover with plaster) · de überziehen (to cover up, as with plaster) · ca arrebossar (to cover with plaster) · gl recebar (to cover with plaster) · da kalke (to cover with plaster) · fr enduire (to cover with plaster) · fr enduire (to cover up, as with plaster) · ro tencui (to cover with plaster) · hy գաջել (to cover with plaster) · ga clúdaigh (to cover up, as with plaster) · da gipse (to cover with plaster) · de überputzen (to cover up, as with plaster)