paste

paste
paste1 [peıst] n
[Date: 1200-1300; : Old French; Origin: Late Latin pasta]
1.) meat/fish/tomato etc paste
a soft smooth food, made by crushing meat, fish etc
2.) [U and C]
a soft thick mixture that can easily be shaped or spread
Mix the powder with enough water to make a smooth paste.
3.) [U and C]
a type of glue that is used for sticking paper onto things
wallpaper paste
4.) [U]
pieces of glass that are used in jewellery to look like valuable stones
paste 2
paste2 v
1.) [T always + adverb/preposition]
to stick something to something else using glue
A notice had been pasted to the door.
2.) [I and T]
to make words that you have removed or copied appear in a new place on a computer screen
→↑copy, cut ↑cut
Data can be pasted into word processing documents.
→↑paste-up, pasting

Dictionary of contemporary English. 2013.

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  • paste — PASTE. s. f. Farine destrempée & pestrie pour faire du pain, ou autre chose semblable bonne à manger. Paste dure. paste molle. paste blanche. paste bise. paste fine. faire lever la paste. de la paste bien pestrie. paste levée. paste sans levain.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • pasté — Pasté. s. m. Sorte de mets, fait de chair ou de poisson mis en paste. Pasté chaud. pasté froid. pasté de godiveau. pasté de requeste. pasté de beatille. petit pasté. des petits pastez tout chauds. pasté de lapin chaud. pasté de canard, de perdrix …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Paste — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Un Cornish pasty (paste córnico) El paste (del córnico pasti y en inglés pasty [1] ) es un alimento de origen britán …   Wikipedia Español

  • pasté — Pasté, m. Vient de paste feminin, d autant que la chair ou autre viande y est enclose de paste comme d une boëte. On le rend par Artocreas vocable Grec assez à propos, car il est fait de chair et de paste plus communéement: mais d autant, qu il y …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Paste — may refer to: *Paste (food) a Mexican pastry *Paste (magazine) *Paste (rheology) substances rheologically similar to toothpaste *paste (Unix) in computing, the Unix utility tool which is used to join files horizontally *Paste (story) a short… …   Wikipedia

  • Paste — (от англ. paste  вставка)  команда Unix, предназначенная для вставки колонок. Программа рассматривает файлы, как вертикальные колонки, соединяет их и выводит в стандартный поток вывода. Синтаксис paste [ s] [ d разделитель] file [… …   Википедия

  • paste — (от англ. paste  вставка)  команда Unix, предназначенная для вставки колонок. Программа рассматривает файлы, как вертикальные колонки, соединяет их и выводит в стандартный поток вывода. Синтаксис paste [ s] [ d разделитель] file [… …   Википедия

  • paste — [pāst] n. [ME past < OFr paste < LL pasta < Gr pastē, mess of barley porridge < passein, to sprinkle] 1. a) dough used in making rich pastry b) PASTA 2. any of various soft, moist, smooth textured substances [toothpaste] …   English World dictionary

  • Paste — Paste, 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 Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 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. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Paste up — refers to a method of creating, or laying out, publication pages that predates the use of the now standard computerized page design desktop publishing programs. Completed, or camera ready, pages are known as mechanicals or mechanical art. In the… …   Wikipedia

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