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Ointment vs. Plaster — What's the Difference?

Ointment vs. Plaster — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ointment and Plaster

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Ointment

A smooth oily substance that is rubbed on the skin for medicinal purposes or as a cosmetic
Scented ointments for the skin
He rubbed some ointment on his leg

Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. In English, "plaster" usually means a material used for the interiors of buildings, while "render" commonly refers to external applications.

Ointment

A highly viscous or semisolid substance used on the skin as a cosmetic, emollient, or medicament; a salve.

Plaster

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.

Ointment

(medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
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Plaster

Plaster of Paris.

Ointment

A substance used to anoint, as in religious rituals.

Plaster

A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes.

Ointment

That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

Plaster

Chiefly British An adhesive bandage.

Ointment

Semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation

Plaster

To cover, coat, or repair with plaster.

Ointment

Toiletry consisting of any of various substances resembling cream that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin

Plaster

To cover or hide with or as if with a coat of plaster
Plastered over our differences.

Plaster

To apply a plaster to
Plaster an aching muscle.

Plaster

To cover conspicuously, as with things pasted on; overspread
Plaster the walls with advertising.

Plaster

To affix conspicuously, usually with a paste
Plaster notices on all the doors.

Plaster

To make smooth by applying a sticky substance
Plaster one's hair with pomade.

Plaster

To make adhere to another surface
"His hair was plastered to his forehead" (William Golding).

Plaster

To inflict heavy damage or injury on.

Plaster

To defeat decisively.

Plaster

To apply plaster.

Plaster

(uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.

Plaster

A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.

Plaster

(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; render, stucco.

Plaster

(countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.

Plaster

(uncountable) plaster of Paris.

Plaster

(transitive) To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.
To plaster a wall

Plaster

(transitive) To apply a plaster to.
To plaster a wound

Plaster

(transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.
Her face was plastered with mud.

Plaster

(transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.
The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.

Plaster

To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm with (weapons) fire.

Plaster

To smooth over.

Plaster

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

Plaster

A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.

Plaster

Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.

Plaster

To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.

Plaster

To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.

Plaster

Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.

Plaster

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

Plaster

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

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.

Plaster

A hardened surface of plaster (as on a wall or ceiling);
There were cracks in the plaster

Plaster

Adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

Plaster

Cover conspicuously, as by pasting something on;
The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters

Plaster

Affix conspicuously;
She plastered warnings all over the wall

Plaster

Apply a plaster cast to;
Plaster the broken arm

Plaster

Apply a heavy coat to

Plaster

Coat with plaster;
Daub the wall

Plaster

Dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

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