Dictionary Definition
paste
Noun
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]
Verb
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /peɪst/
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- Rhymes with: -eɪst
Noun
Translations
a soft mixture
- German: Paste
- Italian: impasto
- Spanish: pasta
soft mixture used in making pastry
- Italian: pasta
soft mixture of pounded foods
- French: pâte
- German: Paste
an adhesive paste
lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone
thereof
- Italian: strass
Verb
Italian
Noun
paste f|p- Plural of pasta
Extensive Definition
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 shory by Henry James
- Cut, copy and paste - in computing, the popular editing paradigm
- Python Paste - in computing, the web development "meta-framework" utility
- Glue - an adhesive, which may be a paste.
- Rhinestones - common diamond simulants
See also
paste in Catalan: Pasta (desambiguació)
paste in German: Paste
paste in French: Pâte
paste in Italian: Pasta (disambigua)
paste in Portuguese: Pasta
paste in Simple English: Paste
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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