Paste vs. Plaster — What's the Difference?

A thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid

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.

Coat with paste

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.

Beat or defeat severely

Plaster of Paris.

A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.

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

The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery. Also called pâte.

Chiefly British An adhesive bandage.

A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.

To cover, coat, or repair with plaster.

A food that has been pounded until it is reduced to a smooth creamy mass

To cover or hide with or as if with a coat of plaster

A sweet doughy candy or confection

To apply a plaster to

A hard, brilliant, lead-containing glass used in making artificial gems.

To cover conspicuously, as with things pasted on; overspread

A gem made of this glass. Also called strass.

To affix conspicuously, usually with a paste

A hard blow.

To make smooth by applying a sticky substance

To cause to adhere by applying paste.

To make adhere to another surface

To cover with something by using paste

To inflict heavy damage or injury on.

(Computers) To insert (text, graphics, or other data) into a document or file.

To defeat decisively.

(Computers) To insert text, graphics, or other data into a document or file.

To apply plaster.

To strike forcefully.

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

To defeat soundly.

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

A soft moist mixture, in particular:

(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.

One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

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

(obsolete) Pastry.

(uncountable) plaster of Paris.

One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

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

One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.

(transitive) To apply a plaster to.

(physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid

(transitive) To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.

A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

(transitive) To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.

(obsolete) Pasta.

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

(mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

To smooth over.

(transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.

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.

To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

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

To strike or beat someone or something.

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

To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

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

A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

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

Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.

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

A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, - used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., - also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.

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

A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.

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 soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.

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.

The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.

A hardened surface of plaster (as on a wall or ceiling);

To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

Adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

Any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

Cover conspicuously, as by pasting something on;

An adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard

Affix conspicuously;

A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers

Apply a plaster cast to;

Join or attach with or as if with glue;

Apply a heavy coat to

Hit with the fists;

Coat with plaster;

Cover the surface of;

Dress by covering with a therapeutic substance