Meaning

A soft moist mixture, in particular:.

Definitions by Sense

1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:
2. (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
3. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
4. (obsolete) Pasta.
5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
6. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
7. (transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
8. (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.

Example Sentences

Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.

This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.

Vermicelli for soups, is paste from Italy; so called because it looks like worms. My macaroni, paste from Italy—My salop, a root ground to powder—the root of one kind of orchis.

He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

Word Forms

• pastes
• pasting
• pasted

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When Should You Use Paste?

Use paste when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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