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   Paste

   /pāst/

   

   noun

   • 1. a thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid: "blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste" Similar pureemixturepulpmushpapblendinformal:goo
   • ▪ a paste used as an adhesive, especially for sticking paper and other light materials: "wallpaper paste" Similar adhesivegluegumfixativemucilage
   • ▪ a mixture consisting mainly of clay and water that is used in making ceramic ware, especially a mixture of low plasticity based on kaolin for making porcelain.
   • ▪ a hard vitreous composition used in making imitation gems: "paste brooches"

   verb

   • 1. coat with paste: "when coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric"
   • ▪ fasten or stick (something) with paste: "ads are pasted on the walls"
   • ▪ insert (a piece of text or other data copied from elsewhere).
   • 2. beat or defeat severely: informal "he pasted the guy and tied his ankles together"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin pasta ‘medicinal preparation in the shape of a small square’, probably from Greek pastē, (plural) pasta ‘barley porridge’, from pastos ‘sprinkled’.

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   to move a piece of text to a particular place in a computer document: Cut that paragraph and then paste it at the end of the page. cut and paste. to move words or pictures from one place to another in a computer document: It's not enough simply to cut and paste text from the internet. See more.

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   Paste definition: a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.. See examples of PASTE used in a sentence.

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   This function allows you to cut and paste text. It's quicker to copy and paste than to retype. Definition of paste verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   Distinguished between a hard variety which produces a dense, completely vitrified porcelain, and a soft variety which requires less heat to fuse and produces a less glazed porcelain. [1728. With the Sediment, collected at bottom in form of a Paste, [they] fill a kind of Moulds.