Word Finder - plaster

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A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.

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A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.

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A mixture of lime or gypsum, sand, and water, sometimes with the addition of fibres, that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls and ceilings; render, stucco.

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A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast.

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Plaster of Paris.

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To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.

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to plaster a wall

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To apply a plaster to.

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to plaster a wound

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To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.

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Her face was plastered with mud.

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To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.

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The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.

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To smooth over.

I promise not to plaster you with mud this time.

I did not plaster till it was freezing weather.

Clarissa sat her chair like a queen on a throne, the toe of a red pump and a white plaster clad foot peeping out from under her long gown.

At a school of art officially established in Tokyo in 1873 under the direction of Italian teachersa school which owed its signal failure partly to the incompetence and intemperate behaviour of some of its foreign professors, and partly to a strong renaissance of pure Japanese classicismone of the few accomplishments successfully taught was that of modelling in plaster and chiselling in marble after Occidental methods.

The older houses are of brick, overlaid with white or tinted plaster, and ornamented with figures or foliage in terra-cotta; but owing to the great changes of temperature in Rumania, the plaster soon cracks and peels off, giving a dilapidated appearance to many streets.

The poorer houses are built of brick with plaster fronts.

The initial mold will then lie securely in the plaster bandage casing.

Pharmacology And Therapeutics Of Zinc Compounds Zinc chloride is a powerful caustic, and is prepared with plaster of Paris in the form of sticks for destroying warts, &c. Its use for this purpose at the present day is, however, very rare, the knife or galvanocautery being preferred in most cases.

Timber-sawing and plaster manufacture are carried on in the town.

In 1719, while Prince Elbeuf of the house of Lorraine, in command of the armies of Charles VI., was seeking crushed marble to make plaster for his new villa near Portici, he learned from the peasants that there were in the vicinity some pits from which they not only quarried excellent marble, but had extracted many statues in the course of years (see Jorio, Notizia degli scavi d'Ercolano, Naples, 1827).

The legs should be touching the plaster or drywall.

A cement for Derbyshire spar and china, &c., is composed of 7 parts of rosin and i of wax, with a little plaster of Paris; a small quantity only should be applied to the surfaces to be united, for, as a general rule, the thinner the stratum of a cement, the more powerful its action.

The buildings of Montevideo are chiefly of brick and broken stone, covered outside with plaster and stucco, of one to three storeys, with flat roofs, usually surmounted by a square tower, or mirador.

Don't use gauze or a plaster which can stick to the burn.

Pour the liquid plaster of Paris into the molds, and let it dry completely.

Some paints roll over drywall and paneling well, but what about textured surfaces or plaster?

He pulled the chair out to offer her, and in doing so sent it airborne, into the opposite wall, where it splintered into pieces and cracked the plaster.

There is, however, considerable carving on the interior walls, the best specimens being on the tablets, affixed to the walls with plaster.

Ouro Preto has several historic buildings; they are of antiquated appearance and built of the simplest materials - broken stone and mortar, with an exterior covering of plaster.

Painted terra-cotta cones were also embedded in the plaster.

Gypsum in Carbon county and in Cascade county is worked for plaster.

It is badly built, on a swampy site exposed to the inundations of the river; and its houses, with few exceptions, are slight structures of wood and plaster.

The setting of plaster of Paris depends on the fact that when 2CaS04 H20 is treated with water it dissolves, forming a supersaturated solution of CaS04.2H20.

Correlatively in its process of dehydration to form plaster of Paris, monosymmetric gypsum is converted into the orthorhombic form before it begins to be dehydrated.

The principles which govern the preparation and setting of the other class of calcium sulphate cements, that is, cements of the Keene class, are not fully understood, but there is a fair amount of knowledge on the subject, both empirical and scientific. The essential difference between the setting of Keene's cement and that of plaster of Paris is that the former takes place much more slowly, occupying hours instead of minutes, and the considerable heating and expansion which characterize the setting of plaster of Paris are much less marked.

The setting of Keene's cement takes place by the same sort of process which has been described for the setting of plaster of Paris, the chief differences being that the substance dissolved is anhydrous calcium sulphate and that the operation takes a longer time.

Grand Rapids manufactures carpet sweepers - a large proportion of the whole world's product, - flour and grist mill products, foundry and machine-shop products, planing-mill products, school seats, wood-working tools, fly paper, calcined plaster, barrels, kegs, carriages, wagons, agricultural implements and bricks and tile.

In the latter the artist provides a model in plaster from which the founder takes a mould within an encircling box.

The Gods Are Waiting intaglio Plaster intaglios set under glass and framed have been the rage since the 1740s!

The next method is to use a modern expanded metal lath with a wet plaster system applied.

To give the impression of an old lath and plaster ceiling, the new ceilings were coated with a coarse sand mix.

The plaster is pushed onto and into the timber laths, which have been nailed to upright studs.

The polystyrene, fiberglass and plaster become frighteningly lifelike with the assistance well-researched props and costumes.

For lime plaster you would normally use lime putty supplied in a tub.

For lime plaster you would normally use lime plaster you would normally use lime putty supplied in a tub.

The Courtauld gift will include the plaster maquette for this sculpture.

The work is conceived through drawing and small maquettes prior to the final plaster from which the bronze is made.

If you have wonderful plaster moldings in your home, count your blessings!

I can understand wanting to used haired plaster but haired mortar seems a bit odd.

You don't usually need a plaster after a distal chevron osteotomy.

Variations of floral and geometric arabesque patterns and abstract Kufic scripts were expressed in hardwood, plaster, screens, pavings and furniture designs.

The masonry could clearly be seen in places behind the brown crumbling plaster on the walls.

I wrote back in January that the NHS needs major surgery, not the sticking plaster of extra money.

Simply tap the surface with a hammer, then use a bolster chisel to get behind the skimmed plaster.

The new treatment is likened to having a sticking plaster connected to an iPod.

Reconstruction of the painted wall plaster on the wall shown above.

The cement and gypsum plaster was hacked off to allow the cob and stone walls to breathe.

When applied over clay undercoat or one-coat plaster, the previous layers should be fully dry and shrinkage complete before applying finish coats.

When applied over clay undercoat plaster, the previous layers should be fully dry and shrinkage complete before applying finish coats.

Use a steel frame with acoustic quilt insulation and two layers of acoustic plasterboard with a skim coat of plaster.