Paste

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Paste \Paste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Pasting}.]
     To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Paste \Paste\ (p[=a]st), n. [OF. paste, F. p[^a]te, L. pasta,
     fr. Gr. ? barley broth; cf. ? barley porridge, ? sprinkled
     with salt, ? to sprinkle. Cf. {Pasty}, n., {Patty}.]
     1. A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or
        milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough,
        as in making potter's ware.
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     2. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust
        of pies and the like; pastry dough.
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     3. A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and
        water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other
        substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in
        calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.
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     4. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously
        colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or
        gems. See {Strass}.
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     5. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit,
        licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
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     6. (Min.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are
        imbedded.
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     {Paste eel} (Zool.), the vinegar eel. See under {Vinegar}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  paste
       n 1: any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency
       2: an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on
          paper and paperboard [syn: {library paste}]
       3: a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers [syn: {spread}]
       v 1: join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign ont
            the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text"
            [syn: {glue}]
       2: hit with the fists; "He pasted his opponent"
       3: cover the surface of; "paste the wall with burlap"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  269 Moby Thesaurus words for "paste":
     Italian paste, adherent, adhesive, admixture, agglutinate, albumen,
     alloy, amalgam, bang, barnacle, bash, baste, bat, batter, beat,
     belabor, belt, biff, bijouterie, bind, blank, blend, bonk,
     bonnyclabber, box, bramble, bravery, braze, brier, buffet, bulldog,
     bulldoze, burr, bust, butter, cataplasm, cement, cheat, chiffon,
     clabber, clap, clinquant, clip, clobber, clout, clump, coldcock,
     combination, combo, commixture, composite, composition, compound,
     concoction, confection, cornstarch, costume jewelry, counterfeit,
     crack, cream, crush, curd, cut, dash, deal, deal a blow, decal,
     decalcomania, deck, defeat utterly, dental pulp, dough, drub,
     dummy, dumpling, egg white, ensemble, fake, fakement, fedellini,
     festoons, fetch, fetch a blow, fettuccine, finery, flail, flap,
     folderol, foofaraw, forgery, frame-up, fraud, frilliness, frilling,
     frills, frills and furbelows, frippery, froufrou, fuse, fuss,
     gaiety, gaudery, gaum, gel, gelatin, gilding, gilt, gingerbread,
     glair, glass, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gum,
     gumbo, gunk, hammer, haymaker, hit, hit a clip, hoax, ice,
     imitation, immixture, impostor, intermixture, jab, jam, jell,
     jelly, jewelry, junk, junk jewelry, knaydlach, knock, knock cold,
     knock down, knock out, lambaste, larrup, lasagne, leech,
     let have it, limpet, loblolly, macaroni, magma, mash, matzo balls,
     maul, mixture, mock, molasses, mucilage, mucus, mush, noodles,
     overbear, overwhelm, pap, paper pulp, pasta, patter, pelt, phony,
     pinchbeck, pith, plaster, plunk, poke, pommel, porridge, poultice,
     pound, prickle, pudding, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, pulverize,
     pummel, punch, puree, put-on, put-up job, putty, rag pulp, rap,
     ravioli, remora, rip-off, rob, sauce, scatter pins, schmear,
     semifluid, semiliquid, sham, shellac, shoddy, shut out, simulacrum,
     size, skunk, slam, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smash, smear,
     smite, snap, snow under, soak, sock, solder, soup, spaetzle,
     spaghetti, spaghettini, spank, sponge, squash, starch, steamroller,
     stick together, sticker, sticky mess, strike, strike at,
     sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, superfluity, swack, swat, swindle,
     swipe, syrup, thorn, thrash, thresh, thump, thwack, tinsel,
     trappings, treacle, trickery, trumpery, vermicelli, wallop, weld,
     whack, wham, whelm, whip, white lead, whited sepulcher, whitewash,
     whomp, whop, won ton, wood pulp, yerk, ziti
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  paste
       
          {copy and paste}