Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense pastes, present participle pasting, past tense, past participle pasted
1. variable noun
Paste is a soft, wet, sticky mixture of a substance and a liquid, which can be spread easily. Some types of paste are used to stick things together.
He then sticks it back together with flour paste.
Blend a little milk with the custard powder to form a paste.
...wallpaper paste.
2. variable noun
Paste is a soft smooth mixture made of crushed meat, fruit, or vegetables. You can, for example, spread it onto bread or use it in cooking.
...tomato paste.
...fish-paste sandwiches.
3. verb
If you paste something on a surface, you put glue or paste on it and stick it on the surface.
...pasting labels on bottles. [VERB noun preposition]
Activists pasted up posters criticizing the leftist leaders. [VERB noun with adverb]
[Also V n with n]
Synonyms: stick, fix, glue, cement More Synonyms of paste
4. uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
Paste is a hard shiny glass that is used for making imitation jewellery.
...paste emeralds.
5. See also pasting
More Synonyms of paste
paste in British English1
(peɪst)
noun
1.
a mixture or material of a soft or malleable consistency, such as toothpaste
2.
an adhesive made from water and flour or starch, used esp for joining pieces of paper
3.
a preparation of food, such as meat, that has been powdered to a creamy mass, for spreading on bread, crackers, etc
4.
any of various sweet doughy confections
almond paste
5.
dough, esp when prepared with shortening, as for making pastry
6.
a. Also called: strass
a hard shiny glass used for making imitation gems
b.
an imitation gem made of this glass
7.
the combined ingredients of porcelain
See also hard paste, soft paste
verb(transitive)
8. (often foll byon or onto)
to attach by or as if by using paste
we pasted posters onto the wall
9. (usually foll by with)
to cover (a surface) with paper, usually attached with an adhesive
we pasted the wall with posters
Word origin
C14: via Old French from Late Latin pasta dough, from Greek pastē barley porridge, from pastos, from passein to sprinkle
paste in British English2
(peɪst)
verb
(transitive) slang
to hit, esp with the fists; punch or beat soundly
Word origin
C19: variant of baste3
paste in American English
(peɪst)
noun
1.
a.
dough used in making rich pastry
b.
pasta
2.
any of various soft, moist, smooth-textured substances
toothpaste
3.
a foodstuff, pounded or ground until fine and made creamy, soft, etc.
almond paste
4.
a jellylike candy
5.
a mixture of flour or starch, water, and occasionally alum, resin, etc., used as an adhesive for paper or other light materials
6.
the moistened clay used in manufacturing pottery and porcelain
7.
a.
a hard, brilliant glass containing oxide of lead, used in making artificial gems; strass
b.
such a gem or gems
8. Slang
a blow, or punch, as with the fist
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈpasted or ˈpasting
9.
to fasten or make adhere with paste
10.
to cover with pasted material
to paste a wall with posters
11. Slang
to hit; punch
Word origin
ME past < OFr paste < LL pasta < Gr pastē, mess of barley porridge < passein, to sprinkle
paste in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(peɪst)
Word forms: (regular plural) pastes
noun
(Pharmaceutical: Dosage forms)
A paste is a semi-solid substance used in pharmaceutical preparations.
The preparation may be administered externally, as a paste or ointment.
Make a paste by mixing medicated powder with a few drops of water.
A paste is a semi-solid substance used in pharmaceutical preparations.
Examples of 'paste' in a sentence
paste
Mix the butter with the flour to form a paste and stir into the sauce.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Add the butter and plain flour and stir for about a minute to make a paste.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Mix to a smooth paste and spoon into the piping bag.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This is a thick paste that smells of avocado and green tea.
The Sun (2016)
Those wildlife docs are the product of hundreds of hours of footage cut and pasted into a contrived narrative by creative editors.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
If using paste, add this for the last couple of minutes.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This is less cinema, more cut and paste.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Set a pan over a medium heat, add the scooped fat, then stir in the flour to make a thick paste.
The Sun (2017)
It is easy to cut and paste from them into other programs.
Christianity Today (2000)
Stir well until the mixture forms a paste.
The Sun (2013)
Tip this mixture into the almond paste mix and stir until the mixture becomes stiff again.
The Sun (2011)
Whisk the flour and honey with sufficient milk to make a smooth paste.
Guyton, Anita The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home (1991)
Add the curry paste and whisk until the mixture is smooth and comes to a simmer.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Spread the paste in the pastry case.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Take the pan off the heat and beat in the flour and butter paste.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Put all the paste ingredients in a food processor and blitz until smooth.
The Sun (2012)
Transfer to a food processor and blitz to a thick paste.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Whisk the cream and vanilla bean paste to soft peaks then fold through the strawberry purée.
The Sun (2014)
Put the veg and herbs in a food processor and blend until it forms a rough paste.
The Sun (2015)
Make a paste with the flour and butter.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Spread the almond paste over the pastry base.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Whisk all the ingredients together into a smooth paste.
Guyton, Anita The Natural Beauty Book - cruelty-free cosmetics to make at home (1991)
The unwanted bits would be cut out and the loose ends pasted together with special transparent editing tape.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
Fry the onions and the jar of curry paste together "until you feel satisfied'.
Alexander Masters STUART: A Life Backwards (2005)
There is no Guggenheim Museum for a fugitive art form whose works are sprayed and pasted on public walls in the dead of night.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I often tuck cloves around a joint of meat, so the soft, sweet paste can be squashed into the gravy.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In other languages
paste
British English: paste /peɪst/ NOUN
Paste is a soft, wet mixture, which you can spread easily.
...wallpaper paste.
American English: paste
Arabic: مَعْجُونٌ
Brazilian Portuguese: cola massa
Chinese: 糊
Croatian: pasta
Czech: pasta
Danish: pasta
Dutch: smeersel
European Spanish: pasta masa
Finnish: tahna
French: pâte
German: Paste
Greek: πολτός
Italian: pasta
Japanese: ペースト
Korean: 풀
Norwegian: pasta
Polish: pasta
European Portuguese: cola massa
Romanian: pastă
Russian: паста
Latin American Spanish: pasta
Swedish: massa formlös materia
Thai: ส่วนผสมที่มีลักษณะเหนียว
Turkish: macun
Ukrainian: паста
Vietnamese: bột nhão
British English: paste /peɪst/ VERB
glue If you paste something on to a surface, you stick it with glue.
American English: paste
Arabic: يُلْصِقُ
Brazilian Portuguese: colar
Chinese: 粘贴用胶
Croatian: zalijepiti
Czech: přilepit
Danish: klistre
Dutch: plakken
European Spanish: pegar
Finnish: liimata
French: coller
German: kleben
Greek: επικολλώ
Italian: incollare
Japanese: ･･･をのりではる
Korean: 풀로 붙이다
Norwegian: lime
Polish: przykleić
European Portuguese: colar
Romanian: a lipi
Russian: приклеить
Latin American Spanish: pegarcon pegamento
Swedish: klistra
Thai: ติดกาว
Turkish: yapıştırmak
Ukrainian: змащувати клеєм
Vietnamese: dán
British English: paste /peɪst/ VERB
on computer If you paste words or pictures on a computer, you copy them from one place and put them somewhere new.
You can paste by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing V.
American English: paste
Arabic: يُلْصِقُ
Brazilian Portuguese: colar
Chinese: 粘贴在电脑
Croatian: kopirati
Czech: kopírovattext v počítači
Danish: klistre
Dutch: plakken
European Spanish: pegar
Finnish: liittää
French: collertraitement texte
German: einfügen
Greek: επικολλώ
Italian: incollare
Japanese: ペーストする
Korean: 붙이다
Norwegian: lime (inn)
Polish: wklejać
European Portuguese: colar
Romanian: a lipi
Russian: вставить
Latin American Spanish: pegaropción en la computadora
Swedish: klistra
Thai: วาง
Turkish: yapıştırmak
Ukrainian: вставляти з буфера обміну
Vietnamese: dán
British English: paste VERB
If you paste something on a surface, you put glue or paste on it and stick it on the surface.
...pasting labels on bottles.
American English: paste
Brazilian Portuguese: grudar
Chinese: 粘贴用胶水或糨糊
European Spanish: pegar
French: coller
German: kleben
Italian: incollare
Japanese: 張る
Korean: 풀로 붙이다
European Portuguese: grudar
Latin American Spanish: pegar
All related terms of 'paste'
paste-up
an assembly of typeset matter, illustrations , etc, pasted on a sheet of paper or board and used as a guide or layout in the production of a publication
fish paste
something you can spread on bread , made from fish which has been ground
hard paste
porcelain made with kaolin and petuntse , of Chinese origin and made in Europe from the early 18th century
liver paste
p âté made from minced liver meat
soft paste
artificial porcelain made from clay, bone ash , etc
almond paste
a paste made from ground almonds , sugar , and egg whites, used to coat fruit cakes or moulded into sweets
luting paste
a strip of pastry placed around the dish to seal the lid of a pie
tomato paste
a soft , smooth substance made from crushed tomatoes , used in cooking
wallpaper paste
an adhesive used for attaching wallpaper to a surface
copy and paste
to copy (information in a computer document ) and put it somewhere else in the document
cut and paste
a technique used in word processing by which a section of text can be moved within a document
scissors-and-paste
designating or of a piece of writing that has been assembled from a variety of sources rather than by original research , often in a hasty or uninspired way
puff pastry
Puff pastry is a type of pastry which is very light and consists of a lot of thin layers.
Turkish delight
Turkish delight is a jelly-like sweet that is covered with powdered sugar or chocolate .
scissors-and-paste job
if you describe a piece of work as a scissors and paste job, you mean that it has been mechanically compiled , as if by simply cutting and pasting different parts to make a new whole