paste
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /peɪst/
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -eɪst
[edit] Noun
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paste (countable and uncountable; plural pastes)
- A soft mixture, in particular:
- Specifically, one of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- Specifically, one of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
- Specifically, one used as an adhesive, esp. 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.
[edit] Translations
a soft mixture
soft mixture used in making pastry
soft mixture of pounded foods
an adhesive paste
lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone thereof
[edit] Verb
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to 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.
- 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23,
- He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
- 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23,
- (transitive, informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
[edit] Translations
to cause to stick, adhere
to insert a piece of text
[edit] Dutch
[edit] Verb
paste
- The singular past tense of passen.
[edit] Italian
[edit] Noun
paste f. pl.
- Plural form of pasta.
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Noun
paste m.
[edit] Dictionary notes
- Collins Spanish Dictionary Complete & unabridged, 8th edition, 2005, has no entry.
- Diccionario de la lengua española, 22nd edition, 2001, has no entry.
- Larousse gran diccionario : inglés-español, español-inglés, 2nd edition, 2002, has no entry.

