Paste noun U (STICKY SUBSTANCE) a thick soft sticky substance made by mixing a liquid with a powder, especially to make a type of glue: flour-and-water paste. Wallpaper paste. Our new mobile-friendly web app provides a simple, beautiful emoji copy and paste keyboard interface WITH search and auto-copy technology.
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Paste definition is - a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls. How to use paste in a sentence. The PASTE command is used to place the information that you have stored on your virtual clipboard in the location that you have placed your mouse cursor. Try copying the information from the first box and paste it into the second box.
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paste 1
(pāst)n.1. A soft, smooth, thick mixture or material, as:a. A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.
b. The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery. Also called pâte.
c. A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.
d. A food that has been pounded until it is reduced to a smooth creamy mass: anchovy paste.
e. A sweet doughy candy or confection: rolled apricot paste.
2. a. A hard, brilliant, lead-containing glass used in making artificial gems.
b. A gem made of this glass. Also called strass.
v.tr.2. To cover with something by using paste: He pasted the wall with burlap.
3. Computers To insert (text, graphics, or other data) into a document or file.
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v.intr.Computers To insert text, graphics, or other data into a document or file.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin pasta, from Greek, barley-porridge, from neuter pl. of pastos, sprinkled, salted, from passein, to sprinkle; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots.]
paste 2
(pāst)Slangtr.v.past·ed, past·ing, pastes2. To defeat soundly.
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n.
[Probably alteration of baste.]
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Adj. | 1. | pasted - affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste; 'he stayed glued to one spot'; 'pieces of pasted paper' |
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