plaster

Noun

• adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

• a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
  • there were cracks in the plaster
    

• a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.

• any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs

• a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings

Verb

• dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

• coat with plaster
  • daub the wall
    

• apply a plaster cast to
  • plaster the broken arm
    

• affix conspicuously
  • She plastered warnings all over the wall
    

• cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on
  • The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters
    
  • She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco
    

• apply a heavy coat to

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  adhesive plaster , sticking plaster , plasterwork , poultice , cataplasm , plaster of Paris , daub , beplaster , plaster over , stick on