What's the difference between grout and plaster?

Grout


Definition:

  • (n.) Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.
  • (n.) Formerly, a kind of beer or ale.
  • (n.) Lees; dregs; grounds.
  • (n.) A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt.
  • (v. t.) To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two factors prevent the widespread use of the bipolar prosthesis at present: the need for femoral grouting which carries a well-documented risk of hemodynamic complications, and the higher cost of the device.
  • (2) That elusive must-see aura – a combination in 1993 of Hollywood’s most starred director Steven Spielberg and Industrial Light & Magic’s then-unique special-effects prowess – was what made Jurassic Park the first $1bn film; 22 years later though, Spielberg is only executive-producing, and CGI is very much the bog-standard grouting of the blockbuster industry.
  • (3) Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout were charged in the southern district court of New York with four counts of falsification of books, wire fraud and making false statements to the US regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission .
  • (4) Acrylamide, widely used for the production of polymers and as a grouting agent, causes neurotoxic effects in humans and neurotoxic, genotoxic, reproductive, and carcinogenic effects in laboratory animals.
  • (5) A decade ago Unesco authorised archaeologists and engineers to consolidate the two niches, with props and grouting.
  • (6) Grout started his petition after his sons, now aged seven and nine, saw a TV promotion offering free Lego toys to Sun readers.
  • (7) ; (b) passive or interference mechanical fixation where the implants are allowed to move or merely positioned onto the tissue surfaces; (c) bone cement fixation which is actually a grouting material; (d) biological fixation by allowing tissues to grow into the interstices of pores or textured surfaces of implants; (e) direct chemical bonding between implant and tissues; or (f) any combination of the above techniques.
  • (8) They are also barred from possessing "any spray paint, marker pens, any grout pen, etching equipment, or unset paint".
  • (9) Grout II organisms showed a much higher induction frequency anaerobically than aerobically.
  • (10) Histologically, bone was seen to bond directly to the plasma-HA coating and the crystalline-HA grouting.
  • (11) The patients' daily record cards showed that the number of patients whose paine cleared in less than seven days was statistically significantly greater in the naproxen grout (P = 0.03).
  • (12) Grout's lawyers are also reported to have said he has not committed any wrongdoing.
  • (13) Grout took his online campaign offline, appearing with a supersized Lego imitation of a Page 3 girl outside the Sun's headquarters in Wapping, east London, and the Legoland theme park near Windsor.
  • (14) It is believed that this is the first such case to be recorded in the medical literature.Acrylamide is widely used as a "chemical grout".
  • (15) Methyl methacrylate, used as a grout during hip arthroplasty, can inadvertently become lodged between acetabular and femoral components during surgery.
  • (16) Grout, 48, oversaw police operations at Nice’s airport, French media reported.
  • (17) Alternatives include the search for other grouting materials and the development of prostheses with satisfactory surfaces for either press-fit or biologic ingrowth.
  • (18) Grout's petition started on 22 February, but took off after a Lego promotion appeared next to a spread featuring the nakedbreasts of 12 Hollywood actors, including Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz.
  • (19) At both 6 and 12 weeks, bone ingrowth was greatly enhanced by the presence of the plasma-HA coating or the crystalline-HA grouting as compared to the uncoated titanium channels.
  • (20) Six intra-operative deaths and two episodes of near-fatal hypotension occurred in 52 consecutive Hastings procedures (insertion of metal prosthesis grouted in acrylic cement) for subcapital fracture of the femoral neck.

Plaster


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A composition of lime, water, and sand, with or without hair as a bond, for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions of houses. See Mortar.
  • (n.) Calcined gypsum, or plaster of Paris, especially when ground, as used for making ornaments, figures, moldings, etc.; or calcined gypsum used as a fertilizer.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a plaster, as a wound or sore.
  • (v. t.) To overlay or cover with plaster, as the ceilings and walls of a house.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To smooth over; to cover or conceal the defects of; to hide, as with a covering of plaster.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (2) Plaster of Paris, a biocompatible, degradable ceramic material prepared from CaSO4, may have an osteogenic property and become an alternative implant material for ear surgery.
  • (3) Conservative treatment (immobilisation in a plaster alone) was compared to percutaneous K-wire fixation.
  • (4) One must pay attention to the setting expansion of plasters and to the setting contraction of acrylic resins which may be very important if these materials are used without care.
  • (5) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
  • (6) If the ambition set out by the world’s heads of state in New York is ever to be achieved, the global tax system needs more than just a sticking plaster.
  • (7) The soleus muscles were examined immediately after removal of the plaster or after six months of observation.
  • (8) Prevention of progressive orthopedic deformity through the use of plaster casts may minimize the need for surgical treatment.
  • (9) Holograms of dental casts may solve storage problems by replacing space consuming plaster models.
  • (10) In an outspoken intervention that will reignite tensions between church leaders and the government, Sentamu accuses those in power of offering only "warm words" and "sticking plaster" solutions to a problem that is having "devastating" effects on people's lives.
  • (11) Macroscopic and microscopic examination of plaster models obtained from impressions with alginate mass Kromopan Super and silicone mass Dentaflex Pasta confirmed that leaving of saliva and blood on the surface of impressions causes uneven surface of plaster models.
  • (12) This report summarizes the experience of treating seven extremity melanoma patients with early immobilization and discharge using plaster casting or splinting following wide local excision and split-thickness skin graft.
  • (13) But anyone who dreams that Germany’s warmth provides more than a sticking plaster to Europe’s migration crisis should have seen the scene half a mile south of the petrol station on Sunday.
  • (14) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
  • (15) The average duration of the plaster cast fixing period after resection treatment was 18 days longer than after curettage, but the low rate of recurrence in the first-mentioned case makes up for this disadvantage.
  • (16) It has been the policy of the accident and emergency department in Leicester to treat all clinically suspected fractures of the carpal scaphoid in plaster for 2 weeks, even after negative radiology.
  • (17) Andrew Tyrie, the Tory MP who chairs the Treasury select committee, has described the Co-op as an organisation "run by a plastering contractor, a farmer, a telecoms engineer, a computer technician, a nurse, a Methodist minister (Paul Flowers) – and two horticulturalists".
  • (18) Priority has been given to applying sticking-plasters to libel law when urgent surgery is needed to regulate a tabloid newspaper industry that has been shown to have no regard for privacy or the criminal law.
  • (19) Traditional elastomeric impression materials, four recently developed "hydrophilic" silicones and a hydrocolloid have been tested for their accuracy of reproduction by use of indirect measurements via plaster dies and for their wettability by means of the sessile drop method.
  • (20) Report on 35 cases of mallet finger treated conservatively: a circular plaster cast was modeled in hyperextension of the distal interphalangeal joint.