paste-inadj.n.
/ˈpeɪstɪn/, U.S. /ˈpeɪstˈɪn/ A. adj.
Pasted in; inserted or attached by pasting; (of a scrapbook, etc.) containing blank pages on which cuttings or pictures may be pasted.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > record > written record > album or commonplace book > [adjective] > relating to album > type of
paste-in1902
society > communication > book > leaves or pages of book > [adjective] > page > having leaves inserted > inserted by pasting
paste-in1902
tipped1912
1902 Daily Chron. 30 June 3/3 Seeking the cause of this paste-in fly leaf.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 436 a (heading) Paste-in albums for photographs, &c.
1988 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 17 July b1 She caught a key spelling error: captain was spelled captian. She was in charge of the paste-in correction.
1996 Science 26 July 420/1 Every biology textbook will carry a paste-in warning stating that evolution is a controversial theory.
B. n.
A correction or illustration printed separately from the main text of a book and pasted to the margin of the relevant page.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > pasted-in correction
paste-in1939
1939 Library 19 486 When..Wordsworth received copies of Volume II, he was greatly irritated to find that the lower half of page 210..was blank... There exist at least two specimens of a paste-in supplying the fifteen missing lines... Each of the two specimens is pasted to the inner margin of page 211.
1960 Times 13 Oct. 15/7 Where paste-ins have become puckered, wavy lines must be expected.
1994 Rev. Eng. Stud. 45 170 The text is a paste-in, not planned as an integral part of what..is a much earlier manuscript.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1902