n.

1. A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with fiber added, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings.
2. Plaster of Paris.
3. A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes. Also called sticking plaster.
4. Chiefly British. An adhesive bandage.

v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters.

v.tr.

1. To cover, coat, or repair with plaster.
2. To cover or hide with or as if with a coat of plaster: plastered over our differences.
3. To apply a plaster to: plaster an aching muscle.
4. 1. To cover conspicuously, as with things pasted on; overspread: plaster the walls with advertising.
   2. To affix conspicuously, usually with a paste: plaster notices on all the doors.
5. To make smooth by applying a sticky substance: plaster one's hair with pomade.
6. To make adhere to another surface: “His hair was plastered to his forehead” (William Golding).
7. Informal.
   1. To inflict heavy damage or injury on.
   2. To defeat decisively.

v.intr.

To apply plaster.

[Middle English, from Old English, medical dressing, and from Old French plastre, cementing material, both from Latin emplastrum, medical dressing, from Greek emplastron, from emplassein, to plaster on : en-, in, on; see en–² + plassein, to mold.]

plasterer plas'ter·er n.
plastery plas'ter·y adj.

A plastic mixture of solids and water which sets to a hard, coherent solid and which is used to line the interiors of buildings. A similar material of different composition, used to line the exteriors of buildings, is known as stucco. The term plaster is also used in the industry to designate plaster of paris.

Plaster is usually applied in one or more base (rough or scratch) coats up to ¾ in. (1.9 cm) thick, and also in a smooth, white, finish coat about &frac116; in. (0.16 cm) thick. The solids in the base coats are hydrated (or slaked) lime, sand, fiber or hair (for bonding), and portland cement (the last may be omitted in some plasters). The finish coat consists of hydrated lime and gypsum plaster (in addition to the water). See also Lime (industry); Mortar; Plaster of paris.

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verb

To spread with a greasy, sticky, or dirty substance: bedaub, besmear, dab¹, daub, smear, smirch, smudge. See put on/take off.

(plas′tur)
n

Colloquial term applied to dental plaster of paris.

Usually a mixture of gypsum or lime with sand and water, producing a paste-like material that is applied in the plastic state, usually over lath fastened to a surface such as a wall or ceiling, or sometimes directly onto brick; it forms a hard surface when the water it contains evaporates. In some remote early settlements, when lime or gypsum was not available, a so-called plaster of fine white clay mixed with chopped straw was sometimes troweled onto a surface to produce a smooth finish on a wall or ceiling. Cow hair, cow dung, and/or chopped straw often was added to the plaster mixture to increase its mechanical strength when it dried. Gypsum later supplanted lime as the plaster of choice because of its superior properties. Also See mud plaster, ornamental plaster, plaster of paris, and stucco.

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[Ma]

A soft pliable mixture of sand and lime or crushed gypsum, sometimes mixed with organic matter such as hair or chopped straw to improve strength and bonding, which is spread onto walls and ceilings in order to produce a hard smooth surface when dry. Fine plaster can also be moulded into decorative features and panels.

An adhesive material which can he applied as a simple dressing to treat superficial skin-wounds. A few people have an allergic reaction to the adhesive.

1. a mixture of materials that hardens; used for immobilizing or making impressions of body parts.
2. an adhesive substance spread on fabric or other suitable backing material, for application to the skin, often containing some medication, such as an anodyne or rubefacient.

• p. cast — see cast (5).
• p. of Paris — calcium sulfate dihydrate, reduced to a fine powder; the addition of water produces a porous mass used in making casts and bandages to support or immobilize body parts.
• p. rolls — the dry material for constructing plaster casts is packaged as rolls of impregnated gauze which is thoroughly soaked in water before being applied by unrolling around the site of the fracture.
• p. shears — special shears to cut plaster of Paris casts. Designed to cut upwards away from the tissues to avoid injury. Called also plaster scissors, Esmarch plaster shears.
• p. spreader — a reverse pincer device with flat blades that are fitted down into a cut made in a plaster cast that is to be removed. Opening the handles forces the plaster apart.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - puds
v. tr. - pudse, gipse, plastre, klistre, overdænge, nedgøre
v. intr. - glatte med gips

idioms:

• plaster cast    gipsafstøbning, gipsbandage
• plaster of Paris    plaster
• plaster saint    dydsdragon

Nederlands (Dutch)
pleister, gips, bepleisteren, gipsen, platstrijken met water/ gel etc., dik opsmeren, hevig bombarderen, in de pan hakken, overmatig beladen, breed uitmeten (in de pers)

Français (French)
n. - mastic, (Constr, Méd, Art) plâtre, (GB) sparadrap, pansement
v. tr. - (Constr) faire les plâtres (d'une maison), couvrir, tapisser (de), badigeonner, (Méd) plâtrer, battre (qn) comme plâtre (arch)
v. intr. - plâtrer, appliquer du plâtre

idioms:

• plaster cast    moulage, (Méd) plâtre, (Art) moulage, plâtre (sculpture)
• plaster of Paris    plâtre de Paris
• plaster saint    saint (iro)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Pflaster, Gips, Verputz
v. - verputzen, vergipsen, kleistern, bepflastern

idioms:

• plaster cast    Gipsverband, Gipsabguß, Gipsabdruck
• plaster of Paris    Gips
• plaster saint    Heiligenfigur aus Gips

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ασβεστο)κονίαμα (κν. σοβάς), (καλλιτεχνικός) γύψος, λευκοπλάστης (κν. τσιρότο), έμπλαστρο (κν. μπλάστρι)
v. - μπλαστρώνω, (οικοδ.) σοβατίζω, βάζω έμπλαστρο, (ιατρ.) επιθέτω λευκοπλάστη, επαλείφω σε υπερβολικό βαθμό, (καθομ.) βομβαρδίζω ανελέητα

idioms:

• plaster cast    γύψινο εκμαγείο
• plaster of Paris    καλλιτεχνικός γύψος
• plaster saint    άγιος, υπόδειγμα

Italiano (Italian)
intonacare, ingessare, cerotto, gesso, intonaco

idioms:

• plaster cast    modello in gesso, ingessatura
• plaster of Paris    gesso di Parigi
• plaster saint    paragone di castità

Português (Portuguese)
n. - curativo (m), gesso (m), tala (f), estuque (m), revestimento (m)
v. - engessar, fazer curativo, revestir, rebocar

idioms:

• plaster cast    gesso (Med.), molde de gesso
• plaster of Paris    gesso calcinado
• plaster saint    santo de gesso

Русский (Russian)
штукатурить, гипсовать, штукатурка, гипс, алебастр

idioms:

• plaster cast    гипсовый слепок
• plaster of Paris    штукатурный гипс, алебастр
• plaster saint    (ирон.) безгрешный

Español (Spanish)
n. - esparadrapo, emplasto, parche, yeso, escayola
v. tr. - enlucir, enyesar, estucar, escayolar
v. intr. - enlucir, enyesar, estucar, escayolar

idioms:

• plaster cast    vaciado en yeso, enyesado
• plaster of Paris    yeso blanco, yeso mate
• plaster saint    persona que se considera un dechado de virtudes

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - murbruk, gips, plåster
v. - putsa, rappa, gipsa, plåstra om, smeta på, klistra upp

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
石膏, 膏药, 灰泥, 涂以灰泥, 减轻, 敷以膏药, 抹灰泥

idioms:

• plaster cast    石膏模型, 石膏绷带
• plaster of Paris    熟石膏, 烧石膏
• plaster saint    道德怪人, 道德完人

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 石膏, 膏藥, 灰泥
v. tr. - 塗以灰泥, 減輕, 敷以膏藥
v. intr. - 抹灰泥

idioms:

• plaster cast    石膏模型, 石膏繃帶
• plaster of Paris    熟石膏, 燒石膏
• plaster saint    道德怪人, 道德完人

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 회반죽, 고약
v. tr. - ~에 회반죽을 바르다
v. intr. - 많은 폭탄을 투하하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 漆食, 石こう, ばんそうこう, 膏薬
v. - …にしっくいを塗る, …にこう薬をはる, 塗り付ける, 漆喰を塗る

idioms:

• plaster cast    ギブス包帯, 石膏模型, ギプス包帯
• plaster of Paris    焼き石膏
• plaster saint    立派な人, りっぱな人
• sticking plaster    ばんそうこう

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) اللصوق, اللزقه, جص (فعل) يجصص, يلصق, يجعله املس ومستوي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮גבס, טיח, רטייה‬
v. tr. - ‮טייח, כיסה, הדביק אספלנית, הפציץ הפצצה כבדה (מדוברת)‬
v. intr. - ‮טייח, גיבס‬

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Pain Relieving Plaster