paste
Americannoun
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a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
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any soft, smooth, and plastic material or preparation.
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dough, especially when prepared with shortening, as for making pie crust and other pastry.
puff paste.
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any of various semisoft fruit confections of pliable consistency.
almond paste; guava paste.
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a preparation of fish, tomatoes, or other food reduced to a smooth, soft mass, as for a relish or for seasoning.
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a mixture of clay, water, etc., for making pottery or porcelain.
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Jewelry.
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a brilliant, heavy glass, as strass, used for making artificial gems.
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an artificial gem of this material.
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Slang. a hard smack, blow, or punch, especially on the face.
verb (used with object)
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to fasten or stick with paste or the like.
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to cover with something applied by means of paste.
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Slang. to hit (a person) hard, especially on the face.
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Computers. to insert (copied text, images, etc.) into a file.
verb (used without object)
noun
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a mixture or material of a soft or malleable consistency, such as toothpaste
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an adhesive made from water and flour or starch, used esp for joining pieces of paper
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a preparation of food, such as meat, that has been powdered to a creamy mass, for spreading on bread, crackers, etc
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any of various sweet doughy confections
almond paste
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dough, esp when prepared with shortening, as for making pastry
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Also called: strass. a hard shiny glass used for making imitation gems
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an imitation gem made of this glass
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the combined ingredients of porcelain See also hard paste soft paste
verb
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to attach by or as if by using paste
he pasted posters onto the wall
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(usually foll by with) to cover (a surface) with paper, usually attached with an adhesive
he pasted the wall with posters
verb
Other Word Forms
- prepaste verb (used with object)
- repaste verb (used with object)
- semipaste noun
- unpaste verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of paste
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin pasta dough < Greek pastá barley porridge, noun use of neuter plural of pastós, verbid of pássein to strew, sprinkle; a pasta was originally a kind of gruel sprinkled with salt; paste ( defs. 9, 12 ) probably by association with baste 3
Example Sentences
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Simply use a bit more tomato paste than the recipe calls for to amp up the flavor.
From Salon
A pasting at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain might have coloured their last European campaign but Inter got to that final by seeing off Bayern Munich and Barcelona in epic knockout ties.
From Barron's
Even if you’re using an employer’s closed system, just don’t copy and paste your notes.
Now make the briny engine: chop green olives very finely, almost relish-like, and do the same with artichoke hearts: small, but not paste.
From Salon
The queso started fine but eventually congealed into something that approximated lukewarm paste.
From Los Angeles Times
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