The difference between Band-aid and Plaster

When used as nouns, band-aid means an adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound, whereas plaster means a paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.

When used as verbs, band-aid means to apply an adhesive bandage, whereas plaster means to cover or coat something with plaster.


check bellow for the other definitions of Band-aid and Plaster

  1. Band-aid as a noun:

    An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.

  2. Band-aid as a noun (informal):

    A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.

  1. Band-aid as a verb:

    To apply an adhesive bandage.

    Examples:

    "As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows."

  2. Band-aid as a verb:

    To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

    Examples:

    "Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message."

  1. Plaster as a noun (uncountable):

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

  2. Plaster as a noun (countable, British, New Zealand, Canada):

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

  3. Plaster as a noun (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; render, stucco.

  4. Plaster as a noun (countable):

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

  5. Plaster as a noun (uncountable):

    plaster of Paris.

  1. Plaster as a verb (transitive):

    To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.

    Examples:

    "to plaster a wall"

  2. Plaster as a verb (transitive):

    To apply a plaster to.

    Examples:

    "to plaster a wound"

  3. Plaster as a verb (transitive):

    To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.

    Examples:

    "Her face was plastered with mud."

  4. Plaster as a verb (transitive):

    To hide or cover up, as if with plaster.

    Examples:

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

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