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| paste [ payst ] |
noun (plural pastes) |
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1. adhesive mixture: a soft mixture of flour and water or starch and water used as an adhesive, especially for sticking paper to something
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2. food spread: a soft food product that can be spread on something such as bread
  anchovy paste
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3. semisolid mixture: a soft mass or mixture with a consistency between a liquid and a solid
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4. pastry dough: pastry dough usually made with shortening and used especially to make pie crusts
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5. glass for imitation gems: a hard, brilliant glass used to make imitation jewels
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6. porcelain clay: the clay mixture used to make porcelain
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transitive verb (past and past participle past·ed, present participle past·ing, 3rd person present singular pastes) |
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1. glue something to something else: to stick things together using paste
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2. cover surface with paste: to cover a surface by sticking things to it with paste
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3. comput place text in document electronically: to place text, data, or an image into a document electronically
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| [13th century. Via French< late Latin pasta "dough, paste" < Greek pastē "barley porridge" < passein "to sprinkle"] |
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| past·er noun |
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