Definition of Plaster

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. 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. Related Definitions: According, Adhesive, An, And, Application, As, At, Bind, Body, Bond, By, Coating, Composition, Conceal, Consistency, Cover, Covering, Effect, Especially, External, Fertilizer, Fig, For, Ground, Gypsum, Hair, Harder, Hide, House, Houses, Is, It, Leather, Lime, Linen, Making, Material, Medicinal, Mortar, Of, Ointment, On, Or, Ordinary, Other, Over, Overlay, Paris, Plaster, Porous, Prepared, Produce, Sand, See, Silk, Smooth, Sore, Spreading, Sticking, Temperature, Than, The, To, Together, Use, Used, Water, When, With, Without, Wound

Plaster Quotations It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. William James The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it. James A. Lovell To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole. Randy Bachman In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever. Bruce Nauman First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. Gustav Stickley I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. Franka Potente We have relegated the saints to a pink and blue and gold world of plaster statuary that belongs to the past; it is a hangover, a relic, of the Dark Ages when men were the children of fantasy's magic. C. Kilmer Myers

Plaster Translations plaster in Dutch is kalken, aanstrijken plaster in French is pavement plaster in German is Pflaster, Heftpflaster, Gips, Pflaster plaster in Hungarian is gipszvakolat, flastrom, vakolat, tapasz plaster in Italian is lastricato plaster in Norwegian is plaster plaster in Portuguese is emplastro plaster in Spanish is emplasto, yeso, esparadrapo