plaster

noun

1. (uncountable)A paste applied to the skin for healing or cosmetic purposes.
2. (British, Canada, New-Zealand, countable)A small adhesive bandage to cover a minor wound; a sticking plaster.
3. (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.

   “Near-synonym: stucco (dedicated term for exterior type in some dialects)”

4. (countable, uncountable)A similar material used for exterior walls.
5. (countable)A cast made of plaster of Paris and gauze; a plaster cast.
6. (uncountable)Plaster of Paris.

verb

1. (transitive)To cover or coat something with plaster; to render.

   “to plaster a wall”

2. (transitive)To apply a plaster to.

   “to plaster a wound”

3. (transitive)To smear with some viscous or liquid substance.

   “Her face was plastered with mud.”

4. (transitive)To hide or cover up, as if with plaster; to cover thickly.

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

   “If Euston is not typically English, St. Pancras is. Its façade is a nightmare of improbable Gothic. It is fairly plastered with the aesthetic ideals of 1868, and the only beautiful thing about it is Barlow's roof. It is haunted by the stuffier kind of ghost. Yet there is something about the ordered whole of St. Pancras that would make demolition a terrible pity.”

   “Lillian walked the halls wearing a shirt plastered with what she assured everyone was a memetic stun agent; it looked just like the kill agent gating access to the SCP-001 database file, but as she patiently explained to McInnis, in art, context is everything.”

5. (figuratively, transitive)To bombard heavily or overwhelmingly; to overwhelm (with weapons fire).
6. (figuratively, transitive)To smooth over.

name

1. A surname.