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Definitions for Paste

[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] 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 brilliant, heavy glass, as strass, used for making artificial gems. an artificial gem of this material.
[9] Slang . a hard smack, blow, or punch, especially on the face.
[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.
[13] Computers . to insert (copied text, images, etc.) into a file. Compare copy(def 15) , cut(def 24) .
[14] Computers . to insert copied text, images, etc., into a file. Compare cut(def 42) .
[15] a mixture or material of a soft or malleable consistency, such as toothpaste
[16] an adhesive made from water and flour or starch, used esp for joining pieces of paper
[17] a preparation of food, such as meat, that has been powdered to a creamy mass, for spreading on bread, crackers, etc
[18] any of various sweet doughy confections almond paste
[19] dough, esp when prepared with shortening, as for making pastry
[20] Also called: strass a hard shiny glass used for making imitation gems an imitation gem made of this glass
[21] the combined ingredients of porcelain See also hard paste, soft paste
[22] (often foll by on or onto ) to attach by or as if by using paste he pasted posters onto the wall
[23] (usually foll by with) to cover (a surface) with paper, usually attached with an adhesive he pasted the wall with posters
[24] (tr) slang to hit, esp with the fists; punch or beat soundly

Words related to Paste

spit, fix, gum, patch, stick, cement, fasten, plaster, mucilage, stickum

Words nearby Paste

past one's prime, past participle, past perfect, past progressive, pasta, paste, paste mold, paste-on, paste-up, pasteboard, pastedown

Origin of Paste

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

Words that may be confused with Paste

passed, past, paste

Other 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.

Word origin for Paste

C19: variant of baste ³

Synonyms for Paste

cement, fasten, fix, gum, mucilage, patch, plaster, spit, stick, stickum