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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024paste /peɪst/USA pronunciation n., v., past•ed, past•ing. n. [uncountable] - a mixture of flour and water, used for causing material to stick to something:The kids put paste on the cardboard pieces and stuck them together.
- Fooddough, esp. when prepared with shortening.
- Fooda soft mixture of crushed food and a liquid that can be spread on food and eaten:almond paste.
- Ceramicsany mixture of some powdery substance, as clay, with a liquid:paste for making pottery.
v. [~ + object] - to fasten or stick with paste:pasted the children's pictures on the wall.
- to cover with something applied by paste.
- Slang Termsto hit (a person) hard:She pasted him one across the mouth.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024paste (pāst),USA pronunciation n., v., past•ed, past•ing. n. - a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
- any soft, smooth, and plastic material or preparation.
- Fooddough, esp. when prepared with shortening, as for making pie crust and other pastry:puff paste.
- Foodany of various semisoft fruit confections of pliable consistency:almond paste; guava paste.
- Fooda preparation of fish, tomatoes, or other food reduced to a smooth, soft mass, as for a relish or for seasoning.
- Foodpasta.
- Ceramicsa mixture of clay, water, etc., for making pottery or porcelain.
- Jewelry
- Jewelrya brilliant, heavy glass, as strass, used for making artificial gems.
- Jewelryan artificial gem of this material.
- [Slang.]a hard smack, blow, or punch, esp. on the face.
v.t. - Slang Termsto fasten or stick with paste or the like.
- to cover with something applied by means of paste.
- Slang Termsto hit (a person) hard, esp. on the face.
- Greek pastá barley porridge, noun, nominal use of neuter plural of pastós, verbid of pássein to strew, sprinkle; a pasta was origin, originally a kind of gruel sprinkled with salt; (defs. 9, 12) probably by association with baste3
- Late Latin pasta dough
- Middle French
- Middle English 1350–1400
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: paste /peɪst/ n - a mixture or material of a soft or malleable consistency, such as toothpaste
- an adhesive made from water and flour or starch, used esp for joining pieces of paper
- a preparation of food, such as meat, that has been powdered to a creamy mass, for spreading on bread, crackers, etc
- any of various sweet doughy confections: almond paste
- dough, esp when prepared with shortening, as for making pastry
Also called: strass a hard shiny glass used for making imitation gems- an imitation gem made of this glass
- the combined ingredients of porcelain
See also hard paste, soft paste vb (transitive)- often followed by on or onto: to attach by or as if by using paste: he pasted posters onto the wall
- (usually followed by with) to cover (a surface) with paper, usually attached with an adhesive: he pasted the wall with posters
Etymology: 14th Century: via Old French from Late Latin pasta dough, from Greek pastē barley porridge, from pastos, from passein to sprinkle |