(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.
Screed
Definition:
(n.) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
(n.) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
(n.) A fragment; a portion; a shred.
(n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
(n.) An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) It seems all of a piece with Steinem's generosity that she would give me another woman's book rather than one of her own (either that, or she sincerely believes I will find it useful to be able to quote screeds of Thomas Jefferson, Susan B Anthony and Toni Morrison at my enemies).
(2) They seized on Zhang's lengthy screed, hailing him as a model of "going against the tide".
(3) The chap who wrote screeds of death fantasies about me and used to turn up at the Guardian until he was sectioned: he was a police matter.
(4) Latham’s screed is laughable because anyone with half a brain – or even a regular newspaper column that affords them the time to make “gourmet meals” and tend to a garden – should be able to realise the use of anti-depressants isn’t a sign of hating children.
(5) Fetal loss by abortion or perinatal death after amniocentesis occurred in 0.034% of pregnancies screeded, 75% being associated with threatened abortion before amniocentesis.
(6) The San Francisco Examiner first reported on the Facebook screed , noting that, before he deleted his comments, Woodward defended his stance in response to critical neighbors, writing: “I had a family, not from our neighborhood who was constantly digging through the recycle bins in our neighborhood illegally.
(7) The 26-year-old, obsessed by the macabre hoopla surrounding other mass shootings, left a note – a multi-page, angry screed, it was reported – and murdered with apparent yearning for posthumous notoriety.
(8) After sitting alone at a computer screen, reading the screeds of others in their cause, these men who refer to themselves as “patriots” relish this gathering of like minds.
(9) In 2015, startup CEO Greg Gopman attempted to make amends for his own anti-homeless screed (he described the homeless as “the lower part of society” and “degenerates [who] gather like hyenas” and bemoaned the “burden and liability [of] having them so close to us) by launching a program of his own to “solve” homelessness.
(10) Hiring a new “face and body” every year, from Helena Christensen to Peaches Geldof, garnered screeds of free advertising.
(11) Geller has claimed regular contact with the EDL leadership and recently published a screed by the organisation's spokesman, Trevor Kelway.
(12) The notorious 2013 online screed, he acknowledged, was heartfelt.
(13) The discussion threads are a mixed bag of rage and curiosity: screeds against feminists, advice on how to masturbate less, theories on why women fantasize about rape, descriptions of arguments with girlfriends, guides to going up to strangers on the street, and, most of all, workout schedules and diet regimes.
(14) From yelling matches on ABC’s Q&A to screed on Twitter, we just don’t seem to be able to talk any more … To speak into this, Bible Society Australia has teamed up with Coopers Premium Light to ask Australians to try ‘Keeping it Light’ – a creative campaign to reach even more Australians with God’s word.” It released a video in which the Liberal MPs Andrew Hastie and Tim Wilson debated the issue of same-sex marriage .
(15) You walk around and see blank eyes.” The government also tolerates Islamophobia and screeds of hatred in the media, Green said, fostering an ugly atmosphere that easily flares into violence.
(16) Today bookstores in the US are filled with shabby screeds bearing screaming headlines about Islam and terror, the Arab threat and the Muslim menace, all of them written by political polemicists pretending to knowledge imparted by experts who have supposedly penetrated to the heart of these strange oriental peoples.
(17) Back in 2003, while writing a cricket over-by-over report very early one morning for the Guardian's website, I came to the conclusion that I simply could not be bothered, clicked CAPS LOCK, and tapped out a breathless screed laying out a trenchant critique of my employment status .
(18) The grass is still a dense mossy screed at this time of year, brutalised by the winter wind and snow.
(19) His 250-page screed sprawls across a vast canvas about the future, education, Britain's place in the world and disruptive forces ahead.
(20) What resulted is a truly random assemblage: an album of Beatles photographs, an anti-homosexuality screed called Gay is Not Good, multiple English-language Kama Sutras, popular 1970s memoir The Happy Hooker, a set of bawdy limericks, a coffee table book of Picasso paintings and Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar.