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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
plaster
1. a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water;
hardens into a smooth solid;
used to cover walls and ceilings (Freq. 3)
• Hypernyms:
mixture, covering material
• Hyponyms:
finish coat, finishing coat, grout, parget, pargeting,
pargetting, roughcast, spackle, spackling compound, stucco
2. 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
• Syn:
plaster of Paris
• Hypernyms:
calcium sulphate, calcium sulfate
• Hyponyms:
gesso
• Substance Meronyms:
gypsum
3. 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.
• Syn:
poultice, cataplasm
• Derivationally related forms:
poultice (for: poultice)
• Hypernyms:
dressing, medical dressing
• Hyponyms:
mustard plaster, sinapism
4. a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling)
- there were cracks in the plaster
• Syn:
plasterwork
• Hypernyms:
surface
• Hyponyms:
pargeting, pargetting, pargetry
5. adhesive tape used in dressing wounds
• Syn:
adhesive plaster, sticking plaster
• Hypernyms:
adhesive tape
• Hyponyms:
court plaster
1. apply a heavy coat to (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
plaster over, stick on
• Derivationally related forms:
plastering
• Hypernyms:
cover
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
2. 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
• Syn:
beplaster
• Hypernyms:
cover
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something with something
- They plaster the doors with notices
3. affix conspicuously
- She plastered warnings all over the wall
• Hypernyms:
affix, stick on
• Verb Group:
beplaster
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something PP
- They plaster notices on the doors
4. apply a plaster cast to
- plaster the broken arm
• Derivationally related forms:
plastering
• Hypernyms:
cover
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
5. coat with plaster
- daub the wall
• Syn:
daub
• Derivationally related forms:
daub (for: daub), daubing (for: daub), plasterer, plastering
• Topics:
masonry
• Hypernyms:
coat, surface
• Hyponyms:
render-set, parget, roughcast, mud, mortar
• Verb Group:
daub
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
6. dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
• Syn:
poultice
• Derivationally related forms:
plastering, poultice (for: poultice)
• Topics:
medicine, practice of medicine
• Hypernyms:
dress
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Did he plaster his foot?
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