plaster

See also: Plaster and plåster

English

Alternative forms

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

plaster (countable and uncountable, plural plasters)

  1. (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
    • 1810, Jack and Jill, and old Dame Gill, York: J. Kendrew, page 4:
      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.
  2. (countable, UK, New Zealand, Canada) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
  4. (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.
    Synonyms: render, stucco, grout
    Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)
  6. A similar material used for exterior walls.
    Synonym: stucco
  7. (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
  8. (by ellipsis, uncountable) Plaster of Paris.

Derived terms

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Verb

plaster (third-person singular simple present plasters, present participle plastering, simple past and past participle plastered)

  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.
    The workmen plastered the wall with pictures.
    • 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
      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.
    • 2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation‎[1], archived from the original on 2 October 2024:
      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.
  6. (transitive, figurative) To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
    • 2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 30:36 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!‎[2], archived from the original on 4 July 2022:
      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.
  7. (transitive, figurative) To smooth over.

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Danish

A small adhesive bandage.

Etymology

From Old Norse plástr, borrowed from Middle Low German plaster, plāster, from Old Saxon plāstar, from Proto-West Germanic *plastr.

Noun

plaster n (singular definite plastret or plasteret, plural indefinite plastre)

  1. band-aid, plaster or sticking plaster

Inflection

Declension of plaster
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative plaster plastret
plasteret 		plastre plastrene
genitive plasters plastrets
plasterets 		plastres plastrenes

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Old English

Etymology

From late Latin plastrum, shortened from Classical Latin emplastrum (“a plaster, bandage”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplɑs.ter/

Noun

plaster n

  1. plaster

Descendants

  • English: plaster

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron)
Latin emplastrum
Old High German pflastar
German Pflasterbor.
Polish plaster

    Borrowed from German Pflaster, from Old High German pflastar, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈplas.tɛr/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -astɛr
    • Syllabification: plas‧ter

    Noun

    plaster m inan (diminutive plasterek)

    1. plaster, sticking plaster, band-aid
      Synonym: przylepiec
    2. slice (thin, broad piece cut off from a whole)
    3. comb, honeycomb

    Declension

    Declension of plaster
    singular plural
    nominative plaster plastry
    genitive plastra plastrów
    dative plastrowi plastrom
    accusative plaster, plastra1 plastry
    instrumental plastrem plastrami
    locative plastrze plastrach
    vocative plastrze plastry

    1Colloquial.

    Further reading

    • “plaster”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • “plaster”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[4] (in Polish)

    Swedish

    Noun

    plaster

    1. indefinite plural of plast

    Anagrams

    Welsh

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈplasdɛr/, [ˈpʰlastɛr]
      • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈplasdar/, [ˈpʰlastar]

    Noun

    plaster m (plural plasteri)

    1. alternative form of plastr (“plaster”)

    Mutation

    Mutated forms of plaster
    radical soft nasal aspirate
    plaster blaster mhlaster phlaster

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    Further reading

    • Griffiths, Bruce; Glyn Jones, Dafydd (1995), “plaster”, in Geiriadur yr Academi: The Welsh Academy English–Welsh Dictionary‎[5], Cardiff: University of Wales Press, →ISBN
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