The difference between Band-aid and Sticking 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 sticking plaster means an adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds.


Band-aid is also verb with the meaning: to apply an adhesive bandage.

check bellow for the other definitions of Band-aid and Sticking 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. Sticking plaster as a noun (NZ, British):

    An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds