paste
a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
any soft, smooth, and plastic material or preparation.
dough, especially when prepared with shortening, as for making pie crust and other pastry: puff paste.
any of various semisoft fruit confections of pliable consistency: almond paste; guava paste.
a preparation of fish, tomatoes, or other food reduced to a smooth, soft mass, as for a relish or for seasoning.
a mixture of clay, water, etc., for making pottery or porcelain.
Jewelry.
a brilliant, heavy glass, as strass, used for making artificial gems.
an artificial gem of this material.
Slang. a hard smack, blow, or punch, especially on the face.
to fasten or stick with paste or the like.
to cover with something applied by means of paste.
Slang. to hit (a person) hard, especially on the face.
Computers. to insert (copied text, images, etc.) into a file.: Compare copy (def. 15), cut (def. 25).
Computers. to insert copied text, images, etc., into a file.: Compare cut (def. 42).
Origin of paste
1Other words from paste
- pre·paste, verb (used with object), pre·past·ed, pre·past·ing.
- re·paste, verb (used with object), re·past·ed, re·past·ing.
- sem·i·paste, noun
- un·paste, verb (used with object), un·past·ed, un·past·ing.
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How to use paste in a sentence
Developed by Gelesis, a biotech company that makes treatments for gastro-intestinal disorders, Plentiy is a weight loss treatment that uses citric acid and cellulose to create a non-toxic paste that makes people feel more full after they ingest it.
Ro makes the weight loss product Plenity commercially available to everyone in the U.S. | Jonathan Shieber | October 1, 2020 | TechCrunchIn addition to using it in recipes from Terri-Ann and other Caribbean and Caribbean-American YouTubers and food bloggers, I add the paste to fried rice, to tofu, to — you get it.
Until I Can Go Back to My Favorite Restaurant, This Jerk Paste Is the Next Best Thing | Elazar Sontag | September 25, 2020 | EaterWalkerswood Jamaican jerk seasoning has quickly become a kitchen stapleI smear the dark brown paste on everything.
Until I Can Go Back to My Favorite Restaurant, This Jerk Paste Is the Next Best Thing | Elazar Sontag | September 25, 2020 | EaterStir in 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons oil to form a thick paste.
Turn a cheap chicken dinner into a Turkish street-food getaway | SAVEUR Editors | September 25, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThe fluids and pastes inside that help create the current can catch on fire — with very dangerous results.
I ate the staple corn paste sadza every day and tasted fried mopane worms.
How I Got Addicted to Africa (and Wrote a Thriller About It) | Todd Moss | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe road salt makes a mushy, corrosive paste that is flung universally about the under-and over-sides of every vehicle.
Labels will give you artist bios—with a quick copy and paste, you could provide that info to us, too!
25 Things I Want from an Online Music Service (and Almost Never Get) | Ted Gioia | June 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTEven when plausible deniability crumbles, the brainwashed paste it back together again.
This 1979 Novel Predicted Putin’s Invasion Of Crimea | Michael Weiss | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHeadache—Take the rinds of a couple of lemons and squash it into a paste.
Use These 15 Home Remedies Based On Ayurveda To Cure Menstrual Cramps, Hangovers, and Indigestion | Ari Meisel | January 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe boy took a piece of wood and covered it with a paste made of ashes and oil.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin | Mary Hazelton WadeStarch is insoluble in cold water, but by boiling, it dissolves, forming a thick paste.
Elements of Agricultural Chemistry | Thomas AndersonIt is to genuine politeness and good breeding, what the showy paste is to the pure diamond.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyWhen this paste is laid over the skin, particularly where there are freckles, it makes it smooth and soft.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyAfter pasting, it is a good plan to lay clean paper between the leaves until the paste is dry.
Harper's Young People, November 30, 1880 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for paste (1 of 2)
/ (peɪst) /
a mixture or material of a soft or malleable consistency, such as toothpaste
an adhesive made from water and flour or starch, used esp for joining pieces of paper
a preparation of food, such as meat, that has been powdered to a creamy mass, for spreading on bread, crackers, etc
any of various sweet doughy confections: almond paste
dough, esp when prepared with shortening, as for making pastry
Also called: strass a hard shiny glass used for making imitation gems
an imitation gem made of this glass
the combined ingredients of porcelain: See also hard paste, soft paste
(often foll by on or onto) to attach by or as if by using paste: he pasted posters onto the wall
(usually foll by with) to cover (a surface) with paper, usually attached with an adhesive: he pasted the wall with posters
Origin of paste
1British Dictionary definitions for paste (2 of 2)
/ (peɪst) /
(tr) slang to hit, esp with the fists; punch or beat soundly
Origin of paste
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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