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
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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.
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Band-aid as a noun (informal):
A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.
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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."
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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."
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Sticking plaster as a noun (NZ, British):
An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds