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paste Definition

paste (pāst)

noun

    1. dough used in making rich pastry
    2. pasta
  2. any of various soft, moist, smooth-textured substances toothpaste
  3. a foodstuff, pounded or ground until fine and made creamy, soft, etc. almond paste
  4. a jellylike candy
  5. a mixture of flour or starch, water, and occasionally alum, resin, etc., used as an adhesive for paper or other light materials
  6. the moistened clay used in manufacturing pottery and porcelain
    1. a hard, brilliant glass containing oxide of lead, used in making artificial gems; strass
    2. such a gem or gems
  8. Slang a blow, or punch, as with the fist

Etymology: ME past < OFr paste < LL pasta < Gr pastē, mess of barley porridge < passein, to sprinkle

transitive verb past′ed, past′·ing

  1. to fasten or make adhere with paste
  2. to cover with pasted material to paste a wall with posters
  3. Slang to hit; punch

paste Synonyms

paste

n.

cement, glue, mucilage; see adhesive.

paste Synonyms

paste

v.

glue, fix, affix, repair, patch; see also stick 1.

paste Usage Examples

Object

  • url: Copy and paste each URL in the ' Feed URL ' box, then click the Add Feed button.
  • html: Copy and paste the html provided into your web page.

Converse of object

  • curry: Friday was a green chili chicken from green curry paste lovingly made by my own two hands, followed by a mango parfait.
  • ferment: It is vegan and based on tofu ( soya bean curd ), miso ( fermented soya paste ), mushrooms and garlic.

Preposition: into

  • notepad: Copy and paste into notepad, or a good script editor.

Adjective modifier

  • almond: Almond paste is traditionally adhered to cake with apricot jam.
  • smooth: Mix the flour to a smooth paste with some cold milk.
  • thermal: Replace thermal paste with one supplied, attach new wire, screw new cooler in place.
  • soft: The pair fished soft paste to the margins feeding small pellet.
  • thick: Add the olive oil with the motor running to form a thick paste.
  • wise: Bait wise, paste, corn, meat, worm and maggot are all working as are boilies and banded pellet.

Modifies a noun

  • extrusion: The screw extrusion trials demonstrated the capability for real-time analysis, a necessary requirement for on-line control of the paste extrusion process.
  • porcelain: Although it lacked the whiteness and strength of hard paste porcelain, soft paste was cheaper to produce.

Noun used with modifier

  • solder: Problems such as the migration of solder paste up the side walls can create both poor filets and voids and blow holes.
  • wallpaper: Modern wallpaper paste is not recommended when using their paper.
  • tomato: The study will involve eating a small amount of tomato paste in olive oil on a daily basis.
  • tamarind: The tamarind paste can be dissolved in the boiling stock ( or water ) before adding.
  • pellet: John fished a homemade soft pellet paste over a bed of pellet and chopped corn and meat offerings.
  • curry: While the sauce is cooking, add the balls to it, and stir in the curry paste.

Preposition: from

  • clipboard: To paste from the clipboard, either go to the edit menu or right click.