paste

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Translations 2 Dutch 2.1 Verb 3 Italian 3.1 Noun 4 Spanish 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Dictionary notes

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• IPA: /peɪst/
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  Rhymes: -eɪst

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paste (countable and uncountable; plural pastes)

1. A soft mixture, in particular:
2. Specifically, one of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
3. Specifically, one of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
4. Specifically, one used as an adhesive, esp. for putting up wallpapers, etc.
5. (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
6. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

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to paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
2. (intransitive, computing) To insert a piece of media(e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
3. (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.

4. (transitive, informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

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paste

1. The singular past tense of passen.

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paste f. pl.

1. Plural form of pasta.

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paste m.

1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)

[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.