paste
1
(p
st)
KEY
NOUN:
- A soft, smooth, thick mixture or material, as:
- 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.
- The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery.
Also called
pāte
.
- A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.
- A food that has been pounded until it is reduced to a smooth creamy mass:
anchovy paste.
- A sweet doughy candy or confection:
rolled apricot paste.
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- A hard, brilliant, lead-containing glass used in making artificial gems.
- A gem made of this glass.
Also called
strass
.
VERB:
past·ed
,
past·ing
,
pastes
VERB:
tr.
- To cause to adhere by or as if by applying paste.
- To cover with something by or as if by pasting:
He pasted the wall with burlap. The wall is pasted with splotches.
-
Computer Science
To insert (text, graphics, or other data) into a document or file.
VERB:
intr.
-
Computer Science
To insert text, graphics, or other data into a document or file.
ETYMOLOGY:
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
kw
t- in Indo-European roots
