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paste

  [peyst] noun, verb, past⋅ed, past⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
2. any soft, smooth, and plastic material or preparation.
3. dough, esp. when prepared with shortening, as for making pie crust and other pastry: puff paste.
4. any of various semisoft fruit confections of pliable consistency: almond paste; guava paste.
5. a preparation of fish, tomatoes, or other food reduced to a smooth, soft mass, as for a relish or for seasoning.
6. pasta.
7. a mixture of clay, water, etc., for making pottery or porcelain.
8. Jewelry.
a. a brilliant, heavy glass, as strass, used for making artificial gems.
b. an artificial gem of this material.
9. Slang. a hard smack, blow, or punch, esp. on the face.
–verb (used with object)
10. to fasten or stick with paste or the like.
11. to cover with something applied by means of paste.
12. Slang. to hit (a person) hard, esp. on the face.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MF < LL pasta dough < Gk pastá barley porridge, n. use of neut. pl. of pastós, verbid of pássein to strew, sprinkle; a pasta was orig. a kind of gruel sprinkled with salt; (defs. 9, 12) prob. by assoc. with baste 3
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paste 1   (pāst)   
n.  

  1. A soft, smooth, thick mixture or material, as:

    1. A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.

    2. The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery. Also called pâte.

    3. A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.

    4. A food that has been pounded until it is reduced to a smooth creamy mass: anchovy paste.

    5. A sweet doughy candy or confection: rolled apricot paste.

    6. A hard, brilliant, lead-containing glass used in making artificial gems.

    7. A gem made of this glass. Also called strass.

    1. A hard, brilliant, lead-containing glass used in making artificial gems.

    2. A gem made of this glass. Also called strass.

v.   past·ed, past·ing, pastes

v.   tr.

  1. To cause to adhere by or as if by applying paste.

  2. To cover with something by or as if by pasting: He pasted the wall with burlap. The wall is pasted with splotches.

  3. Computer Science To insert (text, graphics, or other data) into a document or file.

v.   intr.
Computer Science To insert text, graphics, or other data into a document or file.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin pasta, from Greek, barley-porridge, from neuter pl. of pastos, sprinkled, salted, from passein, to sprinkle; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots.]
paste 2   (pāst)   
tr.v.   past·ed, past·ing, pastes

  1. To strike forcefully.

  2. To defeat soundly.

n.  A hard blow.

[Probably alteration of baste3.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
paste

  1. tv.
    to strike someone, especially in the face. (See also paste (so) one.) : I hauled off and pasted him right in the face.
  2. tv.
    to defeat a person or a team, usually in a game of some type. (See also pasting; get pasted.) : The Warriors pasted the Rockets, 70–49.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

paste  (n.)
1166, "dough," from O.Fr. paste, from L.L. pasta "dough, pastry cake, paste" (see pasta). Meaning "glue mixture" is first attested 1440. The verb "to stick with paste" is from 1560s. Pasteboard (1548) is so called because it is made of sheets of paper pasted together. Pasties "adhesive patches worn over the nipples by exotic dancers" first attested 1961.

paste  (v.)
"hit hard," 1846, probably an alteration of baste "beat" (see lambaste).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: paste
Pronunciation: 'pAst
Function: noun
: a soft plastic mixture or composition; especially : an external medicament that has astiffer consistency than an ointment and is less greasy because of its higher percentage of powdered ingredients
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

paste 1 (pāst)
n.
A smooth semisolid mixture, soft enough to flow slowly and not retain its shape.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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Computing Dictionary

paste
copy and paste

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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