Paste

Quick meaning: Paste is a noun meaning A soft moist mixture, in particular:.

Meaning

A soft moist mixture, in particular:.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

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.

Word Forms

• pastes
• pasting
• pasted

Synonyms for paste

Depending on context, synonyms include glue, spread.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glue, spread, dough, pie, pancake, pasta.

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