paste
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle French (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek.
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[edit] Noun
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, 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.
[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
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
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[edit] Anglo-Norman
[edit] Noun
paste m. (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)
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- paste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
[edit] Dutch
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paste
- singular past indicative and subjunctive of passen.
[edit] Italian
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paste f. pl.
- Plural form of pasta.
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paste
- vocative masculine singular of pastus
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Noun
paste m. (plural pastes)
[edit] Verb
paste (infinitive pastar)
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