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Plaster vs Overcoat - What's the difference?

plaster | overcoat |

As nouns the difference between plaster and overcoat

is that plaster is a bandage, a band-aid while overcoat is a heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.

As a verb overcoat is

to apply an exterior coating to.

plaster

English

(wikipedia 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

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    overcoat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A heavy garment worn over other clothes, for protection from cold or weather.
  • *, chapter=10
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats , nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , chapter=5, title= The China Governess , passage=‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’}}

    See also

    * balmacaan * raglan

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To apply an exterior coating to.
  • * 2004 , James A. Harrington, Infrared Fibers and Their Applications (page 128)
    • One method is to overcoat the fiber with Teflon AF, an amorphous Teflon that transmits over most of sapphire fiber's transmission range.

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