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Webster 1913 Edition
Paste
Paste
(pāst)
, Noun.
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.
2.
Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
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.
4.
A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See
Strass
. 5.
A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
6.
(Min.)
The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
Paste
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pasted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pasting
.] To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
Webster 1828 Edition
Paste
PASTE
,Noun.
1.
A soft composition of substances, as flour moistened with water or milk and kneaded, or any kind of earth moistened and formed to the consistence of dough. Paste made of flour is used in cookery; paste made of flour or earth, is used in various arts and manufactures, as a cement.2.
An artificial mixture in imitation of precious stones or gems, used in the glass trade.3.
In mineralogy, the mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.PASTE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
Paste
paste
paste
English
Noun
paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)
- A soft mixture, in particular:
- (physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
- A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
- (obsolete) Pasta.
- Tobias George Smollett (1766) Travels through France and Italy: Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, A register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city, Volume 2 (travel), page 35: “This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.”
- Arnaud Berquin (1792) The childrens' companion: or, entertaining instructor for the youth of both sexes; designed, to excite attention and inculcate virtue. Selected from the works of Berquin, Genlis, Day, and others, page 75 of 346: “Vermicelli for soups, is paste from Italy; so called because it looks like worms. My macaroni, paste from Italy—My salop, a root ground to powder—the root of one kind of orchis.”
- (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
Translations
a soft mixture
soft mixture used in making pastry
soft mixture of pounded foods
an adhesive paste
lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone thereof
Verb
paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)
- (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
- (intransitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
- (transitive, informal) To strike or beat someone or something.
- 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23,
- He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
- 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23,
- (transitive, informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
Translations
to cause to stick, adhere
to insert a piece of text
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
paste m (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)
Descendants
References
- paste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Portuguese
Verb
paste
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pastar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pastar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pastar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pastar