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Plaster vs Clad - What's the difference?

plaster | clad |

As a noun plaster

is a bandage, a band-aid.

As a verb clad is

to clothe.

plaster

Alternative forms

* plaister * plastre (obsolete)

Noun

  • (uncountable) A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
  • (countable, New Zealand, British) A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
  • (uncountable) 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.
  • (countable) A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; plaster cast.
  • (uncountable) plaster of Paris.
  • Derived terms

    * plasterboard * gypsum plaster * plaster cast * plaster lath * plaster and lath; lath and plaster

    See also

    * cement board * lath * gypsum board * gyprock * sheetrock * wallboard * drywall

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or coat something with plaster, or apply a plaster.
  • Her face was plastered in mud.
  • To hide or cover up, as if with plaster.
  • The radio station plastered the buses and trains with its advertisement.

    Derived terms

    * court-plaster * plasterboard * plastered * plasterer

    See also

    * drywall * sheetrock

    Anagrams

    * ----

    clad

    English

    Verb

  • To clothe.
  • The horse was clad with its best blanket.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
  • But what interested me most was the slender figure of a dainty girl, clad only in a thin bit of muslin which scarce covered her knees--a bit of muslin torn and ragged about the lower hem.
  • To cover with insulation.
  • (clad)
  • (archaic) (clothe)