band-aid

See also: bandaid

English

Band-aid

Alternative forms

• bandaid

Etymology

From the trademark Band-Aid, registered in 1924 by Johnson & Johnson, from bandage + aid. The sense "temporary solution" was first used in 1968 in Canada.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbændeɪd/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

band-aid (plural band-aids)

1. (Australia, Canada, US) 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. (Australia, Canada, US, informal) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.
   • 1968, United Church Observer, n 15 (March), p 36:

     It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.

Synonyms

• (small adhesive bandage): adhesive bandage, plaster (UK), sticking plaster (UK), Elastoplast (UK)
• (makeshift solution): hack

Derived terms

• band-aid solution
• rip off the band-aid

Translations

adhesive bandage

• Arabic: ضِمَادَة f (ḍimāda), لاصِق طِبِّي m (lāṣiq ṭibbī)

  Gulf Arabic: لزاق m (lazzāg), بلاستر m (blāstar, plāstar)

• Belarusian: лейкапла́стыр m (ljejkaplástyr), пла́стыр m (plástyr)
• Bislama: banded
• Bulgarian: пласти́р (bg) m (plastír)
• Catalan: tireta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 創可貼／创可贴 (zh) (chuàngkětiē), 邦迪 (zh) (bāngdí), OK繃／OK绷 (zh) (ōukēibèng, ōukēibàng) (chiefly Taiwan)

• Czech: náplast (cs) f, leukoplast m
• Danish: plaster n, hæfteplaster (da) n
• Dutch: pleister (nl) f
• Esperanto: bandaĝo (eo), sparadrapo
• Estonian: plaaster
• Finnish: laastari (fi)
• French: pansement (fr) m, sparadrap (fr) m
• Galician: banda (gl) f
• Georgian: სალბუნი (salbuni)
• German: Pflaster (de) n, (for clarity) Wundpflaster (de) n, Heftpflaster (de) n, (medical) Wundschnellverband m, (dated) Leukoplast (de) n
• Greek: λευκοπλάστης (el) m (lefkoplástis)
• Hebrew: פְּלַסְטֶר (he) m (pláster)
• Hungarian: sebtapasz (hu), ragtapasz (hu), gyorstapasz, tapasz (hu), kötszer (hu)
• Ingrian: plaasteri
• Irish: plástar m, greimlín m
• Italian: cerotto (it) m
• Japanese: 絆創膏 (ja) (ばんそうこう, bansōkō), バンドエイド (bandoeido)
• Korean: 반창고 (ko) (banchanggo), 밴드에이드 (baendeueideu)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: фластер m (flaster)
• Maori: tāpi
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: empliâtre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plaster n

• Occitan: pensament (oc) m
• Polish: plaster (pl) m, przylepiec m
• Portuguese: penso (pt) m, band-aid (pt) m
• Romanian: plasture (ro) m
• Russian: лейкопла́стырь (ru) m (lejkoplástyrʹ), пла́стырь (ru) m (plástyrʹ)
• Sardinian: tzerotu m, cerotu m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фла̏стер m

  Roman: flȁster (sh) m

• Slovak: leukoplast m
• Slovene: obliž (sl) m
• Spanish: (Latin America) curita (es) f, (Chile) parche curita (es), tirita (es) f, (Spain) apósito (es) m, esparadrapo (es) m
• Swedish: plåster (sv) n
• Tagalog: koritas
• Turkish: yara bandı (tr)
• Ukrainian: лейкопла́стир m (lejkoplástyr), пла́стир m (plástyr)
• Vietnamese: băng cá nhân, băng keo cá nhân
• Wolof: esparadaraa

temporary or makeshift solution

• Finnish: paikkaus (fi)
• German: Behelfslösung f, Behelf (de) m, Notlösung (de) f, Übergangslösung f
• Hungarian: szükségmegoldás (hu), hevenyészett/átmeneti/ideiglenes/kisegítő megoldás
• Russian: (informal) запла́тка (ru) f (zaplátka), косты́ль (ru) m (kostýlʹ)
• Spanish: paños calientes m
• Swedish: plåster (sv) n

Further reading

• Band-Aid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

band-aid (third-person singular simple present band-aids, present participle band-aiding, simple past and past participle band-aided)

1. To apply an adhesive bandage.

   As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.

2. To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

   Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

Translations

to apply an adhesive bandage

• Dutch: pleister plakken
• Finnish: laastaroida (fi)
• Maori: tāpi
• Norwegian: plastre

to apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig

• Hungarian: hevenyészett/átmeneti/ideiglenes/kisegítő megoldást ad, összetákol (hu)
• Russian: залата́ть (ru) (zalatátʹ) (informal), пофи́ксить (ru) (pofíksitʹ) (slang, computing)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• bandeide

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English band-aid.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.d͡ʒi/ [bɐ̃ˈdeɪ̯.d͡ʒi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.d͡ʒi/ [bɐ̃ˈdeɪ̯.d͡ʒi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.de/ [bɐ̃ˈdeɪ̯.de]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdɐj.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈdɐj.ðɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdɐj.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈdɐj.ðɨ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈdej.ðɨ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈdej.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈdej.ðɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐ̃ˈde.dɨ/ [bɐ̃ˈde.ðɨ]

Noun

band-aid m (plural band-aids)

1. band-aid (adhesive bandage)

   Synonym: penso