I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
plaster cast
plaster of Paris
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sticking
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Where was the chemist's shop to buy a tube of sun-tan lotion or a sticking plaster ?
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More sticking plaster and more blood all over his hands.
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So had Adam, judging by the sticking plaster on his chin.
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Dot was shown to her bed where a notice was taped with pink sticking plaster to the end rail.
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If you're affected, cover watch backs with hypoallergenic sticking plaster and use rubber guards on earrings.
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Safety pins; Sticking plaster on a roll.
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Sprawled on the floor with hands and feet tied and sticking plaster over his mouth was my friend Toby.
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A sprig of holly with three berries was taped with sticking plaster to the wall over her desk.
white
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The gold covering may be flaking away, exposing the white plaster , or gesso, underneath.
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Each was low and irregular, plain white plaster walls with prominent wooden spars bracing the ceiling and an open stone fireplace.
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Tom had swept the room clean and had fixed a lamp to a hook on the white plaster ceiling.
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A white waterfall of plaster burst down from the ceiling and slapped and pattered all over him.
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A white plaster trumpet vase joins the white plaster face chair on set.
■ NOUN
cast
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Non-playing colleagues rushed him to the local casualty department, where a large plaster cast was fixed on to the injured area.
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Rather like Steve, who makes plaster casts of the vulva for drawer handles.
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One medium even claimed to have made a plaster cast of a pair of ectoplasmic hands before they dissolved.
ceiling
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Tom had swept the room clean and had fixed a lamp to a hook on the white plaster ceiling .
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Inside the quality finishes include cherry wood panelling, decorative plaster ceilings and marble floors.
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As well as the painted decoration, the Eastons are fortunate in also having two good plaster ceilings .
wall
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The plaster walls were damp and cracked, the floor unswept, its stones stained with dried blood and excrement.
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Awad and his family have lived within the pink and green plaster walls of their three small rooms for ten years.
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The plaster walls were covered with photographs of men and women who had fallen in battle.
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Each was low and irregular, plain white plaster walls with prominent wooden spars bracing the ceiling and an open stone fireplace.
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The bulge was taking place about midway in the plaster wall .
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There was one lamp fixed to a plaster wall half way to the street, aiming a bright circle on the unpaved ground.
■ VERB
put
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It was not felt necessary to put the fracture in plaster .
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Thomas will also miss most of those matches after having his right ankle put in plaster to repair ligament damage.
stick
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But this sticking plaster is not going to stop the slow haemorrhaging of permanent staff from these schools.
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White kicked off her shoes and the audience howled, for under her fishnet stockings were toes stuck with corn plasters .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bronzes are created by building sand moulds of a plaster original, in itself a skilled and labour intensive job.
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It was mightily impressive bowling by any standards, and with his left hand in plaster it was quite remarkable.
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Rather like Steve, who makes plaster casts of the vulva for drawer handles.
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The bone has failed to knit properly and his hand must remain in plaster .
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The midfield player broke an arm during the midweek draw with Arsenal and will be in plaster for six weeks.
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There was a plaster model of the Eiffel Tower in there.
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Three days after that, a plaster jacket was fitted from her shoulders to her hips.
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When hardened, smooth down with abrasive paper, then seal with plaster primer.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
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A lorry rolled past us along the road, its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust.
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All the surfaces were pale ochre mud and dung which the women plastered over stone each year.
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Cracks began to appear - and were plastered over .
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And sometimes ancient tensions and animosities had been merely plastered over .
■ NOUN
hair
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When mixed with warm water the powder became a dense paste which Frankie plastered all over her hair .
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The rain had plastered her hair to her forehead.
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She made the shallow end and stood up, plastering her hair back with her hands.
wall
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The room had roughly plastered walls and a low ceiling supported on enormous joists trimmed out of whole trees.
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There is a broadsheet plastered crookedly to a wall near their bungalow.
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They've also been plastered on walls usually reserved for political propaganda.
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Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The news of the wedding was plastered all over the morning papers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lorry rolled past us along the road, its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust.
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A team of builders from the coast are still plastering the vaults of the vestibule which even with scaffolding are out of reach.
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All the surfaces were pale ochre mud and dung which the women plastered over stone each year.
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He clasped the royal hand and plastered it with three lingering kisses.
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Small Jerichos plaster patches of basalt in the new flows of warm water.
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The next time we come across that creep, he's plastered.
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There is a broadsheet plastered crookedly to a wall near their bungalow.
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They report he appears to be drinking heavily, and occasionally shows up plastered at the office.