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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.
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Parget

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

Ornamental work in plaster.
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Plaster

Plaster of Paris.
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Parget

A cement mixture used to waterproof outer walls.
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Plaster

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

To cover or adorn with parget.
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Plaster

Chiefly British An adhesive bandage.
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Parget

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

To cover, coat, or repair with plaster.
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Parget

(obsolete) To paint; to cover over.
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Plaster

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

Gypsum.
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Plaster

To apply a plaster to
Plaster an aching muscle.
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Parget

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

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

(obsolete) Paint, especially for the face.
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Plaster

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

To coat with parget; to plaster, as walls, or the interior of flues; as, to parget the outside of their houses.
The pargeted ceiling with pendants.
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Plaster

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

To paint; to cover over.
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Plaster

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

To lay on plaster.
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Plaster

To inflict heavy damage or injury on.
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Parget

To paint, as the face.
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Plaster

To defeat decisively.
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Parget

Gypsum or plaster stone.
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Plaster

To apply plaster.
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Parget

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

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

Paint, especially for the face.
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Plaster

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

Plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys
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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.
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Parget

Apply ornamental plaster to
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Plaster

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

(uncountable) plaster of Paris.
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Plaster

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

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

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

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

To smooth over.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Plaster

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

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

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

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

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

Adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
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Plaster

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

Affix conspicuously;
She plastered warnings all over the wall
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Plaster

Apply a plaster cast to;
Plaster the broken arm
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Plaster

Apply a heavy coat to
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Plaster

Coat with plaster;
Daub the wall
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Plaster

Dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
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