To apply an adhesive bandage.
Used in a Sentence
band-aid
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for band-aid.
Editorial note
It seems to me to be just an expensive band-aid where something more invasive and temporarily painful is needed.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
To apply an adhesive bandage.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of band-aid gathered in one view.
To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.
(Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for band-aid.
verb
To apply an adhesive bandage.
verb
To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.
noun
(Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.
noun
(Australia, Canada, US, Philippines, informal) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.
Example sentences
It seems to me to be just an expensive band-aid where something more invasive and temporarily painful is needed.
If Oracle just rips off the Unsafe band-aid without a replacement, the business decision for these firms is still sound.
Being trademarked doesn't really affect the meaning of a word once it's part of popular parlance - Kleenex, Band-Aid, Hoover, Google...
When it comes to programming, 'putting on a band-aid' is analagous to 'entering user/pass credentials'.
Yes, everyone can put on a band-aid, just like everyone can log on to something.
In my experience mood stabilizers and therapists are a band-aid that is mostly about getting you hooked and dependent and compliant.
The key is to recognize that daily/weekly re-boots are a temporary band-aid to hold you over until the application vendors/developers can roll out an app that's not quite so badly broken.
Tabbed browsing itself is a band-aid over miserable browser document and state management.
Had they not published them, it would address the privacy concerns some of us have, and happen to band-aid over the easily factorable keys too.
This is like a city adding push buttons at signaled pedestrian crossings without connecting them: a band-aid, created to make them look active witout fixing anything.
I'm sure it's going to be tough but I see it more like the band-aid choice: it's better to pull it off fast than to try and remove slowly.
I'm reasonably convinced that at this end of the scale the cash transfers are better than the more fashionable approach of loaning the small amounts of money (with high overheads and commensurately high interest payment burdens on the recipients) but the study supports the view that its a band-aid rather than a solution.
Quote examples
I'm not sure how "stabilizers and therapists are a band-aid that is mostly about getting you hooked and dependent and compliant" can be construed as something specific to your situation.
The only "in my experience" i can find is one followed by generalizations about medication and therapy (or maybe it just reads that way to me.) "In my experience mood stabilizers and therapists are a band-aid that is mostly about getting you hooked and dependent and compliant." The sentence reads as if you're inferring what mood stabilizers and therapists ARE (in general) from your personal experience.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use band-aid in a sentence?
It seems to me to be just an expensive band-aid where something more invasive and temporarily painful is needed.
What does band-aid mean?
To apply an adhesive bandage.
What part of speech is band-aid?
band-aid is commonly used as verb, noun.