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plaster Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 a substance that becomes hard as it dries and is used especially for spreading on walls and ceilings in order to give a smooth surface:
- The plaster on the walls was cracked and flaking.
- My leg was in plaster for about six weeks.
1 a small piece of sticky cloth or plastic that you use to cover and protect a cut in the skin:
- a box of waterproof plasters
- Put a plaster on it so that it doesn't get infected.
2 to spread plaster on a surface
- The torrential rain had plastered her hair to her head.
- She had plastered her bedroom walls with photos of pop stars.
- The car was plastered with mud.
- The story was plastered all over (= printed so that it completely covered) the front page of the newspaper.
3 a substance that is used esp. for spreading on walls and ceilings because it makes a smooth, hard surface after it dries
4 Band-Aid
5 infml To plaster a surface or an object with something is to cover it completely or thickly:
- She has plastered her bedroom walls with posters of pop singers.

In these structures the dome is made from a thin shell of curving timber members sandwiched between leadwork and plaster.
On their interiors he placed light insulating elements and then interior panelling or plaster.
These almost unpunctured walls are plastered and painted white.
If language is a building, then usage conflicts are matters of surface finish - a shade of paint here, some plaster cracks there.
The features consisted of two pits in the bedrock plastered with stucco to form subfloor basins.
After settling the final form in a clay model, it was enlarged to a fullscale set of plaster fragments in his workshop.
The rooms in these houses had thick plaster floors placed over a well-prepared base composed of small cobblestones.
It is a plaster wall, or a sheet of canvas, a panel, a screen, or a piece of paper.