| 释义 |
paste /pāst/ noun- Any soft plastic mass
- Dough for piecrust, etc
- A doughy sweet
- A smooth preparation of food suitable for spreading on bread
- A glue whose main ingredients are flour and water
- Any of various adhesives, eg one for hanging wallpaper
- Material for making pottery
- The basis of a person's character (figurative)
- A fine kind of glass for making artificial gems
adjective Of paste transitive verb- To fasten or cover with paste
- To insert text, etc copied or cut from somewhere else (computing)
- To thrash (informal)
- To defeat utterly (informal)
ORIGIN: OFr paste (Fr pâte), from LL pasta, from Gr pasta barley porridge (neuter pl of pastos sprinkled, salted), from passein to sprinkle pāstˈer noun - Someone who pastes
- A slip of gummed paper
pāstˈiness noun pāstˈing noun (slang) - A beating
- A thorough defeat
pāstˈy adjective - Like paste in texture
- (of a complexion) pale and unhealthy-looking
pasteˈboard noun - A stiff board made of sheets of paper pasted together
- A visiting card, playing card, or ticket (slang)
adjective - Of pasteboard
- Sham
- Trumpery
pasteˈ-down noun - The outer leaf of an endpaper that is pasted down on the inside cover of a book
- Formerly, a paper used to line the inside cover of a book
pasteˈ-eelˈ noun A nematoid worm found in paste pasteˈ-grain noun An imitation of morocco leather, used in binding books and in making fancy goods pasteˈ-up noun - A draft of a printed page consisting of text, artwork, photographs, etc pasted onto a sheet, for photographing or as a plan for a printing plate
- A collage
pastˈy-facedˈ adjective Having a pale and dull complexion |