PASTE

spread, paste

(noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes

paste, library paste

(noun) an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard

paste

(noun) any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

paste

(noun) a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry

glue, paste

(verb) join or attach with or as if with glue; “paste the sign on the wall”; “cut and paste the sentence in the text”

paste

(verb) cover the surface of; “paste the wall with burlap”

paste

(verb) hit with the fists; “He pasted his opponent”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

A soft moist mixture, in particular

One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

(obsolete) Pastry.

One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.

(physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid

A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

(obsolete) Pasta.

(mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Verb

paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

(transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.

(intransitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

(transitive, informal) To strike or beat someone or something.

(transitive, informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Anagrams

• Pesta, aspet, pates, peats, pâtĂ©s, sepat, septa, septa-, spate, speat, stape, tapes, tepas

Source: Wiktionary


Paste, n. Etym: [OF. paste, F. pâte, L. pasta, fr. Gr. Pasty, n., Patty.]

1. A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

2. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.

3. A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.

4. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.

5. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.

6. (Min.)

Definition: The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded. Paste eel (Zoöl.), the vinegar eel. See under Vinegar.

Paste, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasting.]

Definition: To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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