plaster

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But now my masonry drill slips on hard stones and gouges chunks from the plaster.

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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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noun

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

noun

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

noun

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.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for plaster.

noun

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

noun

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.

noun

a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling); "there were cracks in the plaster"

noun

adhesive tape used in dressing wounds

verb

apply a heavy coat to

verb

cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on; "The demonstrators plastered the hallways with posters"; "She let the walls of the apartment be beplastered with stucco"

verb

affix conspicuously; "She plastered warnings all over the wall"

verb

apply a plaster cast to; "plaster the broken arm"

verb

coat with plaster; "daub the wall"

verb

dress by covering with a therapeutic substance

Example sentences

But now my masonry drill slips on hard stones and gouges chunks from the plaster.

They constantly try to upsell you, they plaster your domains with ads.

The refurbishment date is scratched into the plaster work: Feb 1722.

If they can't plaster ads on your shit and sell your data, expect a nice big blue, red, yellow and green fuck you.

Google correctly told me where to buy masonry drills and plasterboard fixings.

Self-ghettoisation is, at best, a remedial plaster on a wound, at worst it makes things worse.

It's a pity than many Android apps are low-bidder porting jobs that plaster right over that.

I plaster my email address al over the internet, so that people can contact me. It means I get spam of course, but that's what spam filters were invented to deal with.

They could plaster their front page with advertisements which could, quite possibly, generate more revenue right now.

Ceilings were high also, and the walls were made of plaster, which prevented them from fluctuating with heat load as rapidly as dry wall.

Drug lord was chosen so they could plaster Breaking Bad pictures and get links, but it resembles any other tournament-like profession.

But if you're worried about the information Google collects on you and so choose to plaster that all over message boards every time Google is mentioned - exactly what are you accomplishing?

Yay, ad-hoc bullshit reasoning to justify nationalism!If there are good reasons to do something a certain way then there is no need to plaster nationalist labels all over it and employ nationalist propaganda.

> if you're worried about the information Google collects on you and so choose to plaster that all over message boards every time Google is mentioned - exactly what are you accomplishing?If you're worried about the information Google collects about /everybody/, and you're posting in /relevant topics/, I think you're accomplishing quite a lot. I think it's really important that when new technology is announced, interested parties discuss both "here are some exciting new possibilities" and "here are some areas for concern".