Plaster vs. Parget — What's the Difference?

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.

A mixture, such as plaster or roughcast, used to coat walls and line chimneys.

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.

Ornamental work in plaster.

Plaster of Paris.

A cement mixture used to waterproof outer walls.

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

To cover or adorn with parget.

Chiefly British An adhesive bandage.

To coat with gypsum; to plaster, for example walls, or the interior of flues.

To cover, coat, or repair with plaster.

(obsolete) To paint; to cover over.

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

Gypsum.

To apply a plaster to

Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.

To cover conspicuously, as with things pasted on; overspread

(obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.

To affix conspicuously, usually with a paste

To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.

To make smooth by applying a sticky substance

To paint; to cover over.

To make adhere to another surface

To lay on plaster.

To inflict heavy damage or injury on.

To paint, as the face.

To defeat decisively.

Gypsum or plaster stone.

To apply plaster.

Plaster, as for lining the interior of flues, or for stuccowork.

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

Paint, especially for the face.

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

Plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys

(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.

Apply ornamental plaster to

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

(uncountable) plaster of Paris.

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

(transitive) To apply a plaster to.

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

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

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

To smooth over.

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.

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

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 cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

Cover conspicuously, as by pasting something on;

Affix conspicuously;

Apply a plaster cast to;

Apply a heavy coat to

Coat with plaster;

Dress by covering with a therapeutic substance