paste
paste
Definition
paste (pāst)
noun
- dough used in making rich pastry
- pasta
- any of various soft, moist, smooth-textured substances toothpaste
- a foodstuff, pounded or ground until fine and made creamy, soft, etc. almond paste
- a jellylike candy
- a mixture of flour or starch, water, and occasionally alum, resin, etc., used as an adhesive for paper or other light materials
- the moistened clay used in manufacturing pottery and porcelain
- a hard, brilliant glass containing oxide of lead, used in making artificial gems; strass
- such a gem or gems
- 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
- to fasten or make adhere with paste
- to cover with pasted material to paste a wall with posters
- Slang to hit; punch
paste
Synonyms
paste
Synonyms
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.
Browse dictionary entries near paste
- pasta
- past perfect
- past participle
- past master
- past
- Passy
- Password Cache
- Password Authentication Protocol
- password
- passport
- paste-up
- pasteboard
- pastel
- paster
- pastern
- Pasternak
- Pasteur
- Pasteur treatment
- pasteurism
- pasteurization
