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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, especially 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.
EXPANDa preparation of fish, tomatoes, or other food reduced to a smooth, soft mass, as for a relish or for seasoning.
verb (used with object), past·ed, past·ing.
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, especially on the face.
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Pasting
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So is ort. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
verb (used without object)
14.
Computers. to insert copied text, images, etc., into a file. Compare cut (def. 40).
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin pasta dough < Greek pastá barley porridge, noun use of neuter plural of pastós, verbid of pássein to strew, sprinkle; a pasta was originally a kind of gruel sprinkled with salt; (defs. 9, 12) probably by association with baste3
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Late Latin pasta dough < Greek pastá barley porridge, noun use of neuter plural of pastós, verbid of pássein to strew, sprinkle; a pasta was originally a kind of gruel sprinkled with salt; (defs. 9, 12) probably by association with baste3
Related forms
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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Medical Dictionary
paste 1 (pāst)
n.
A smooth semisolid mixture, soft enough to flow slowly and not retain its shape.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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