1 [sing.] a soft wet mixture, usually made of a powder and a liquid:
She mixed the flour and water to a smooth paste.
2 [C] (especially in compounds) a smooth mixture of crushed meat, fish, etc. that is spread on bread or used in cooking
3 [U] a type of glue that is used for sticking paper to things:
wallpaper paste
4 [U] a substance like glass, that is used for making artificial jewels, for example DIAMONDS
Part of speech: verb
1 [VN+adv./prep.] to stick sth to sth else using glue or paste:
He pasted the pictures into his scrapbook. * Paste the two pieces together. * Paste down the edges.
2 [VN] to make sth by sticking pieces of paper together:
The children were busy cutting and pasting paper hats.
3 (computing) to copy or move text into a document from another place or another document:
[VN] This function allows you to cut and paste text. * [V] It's quicker to cut and paste than to retype.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for paste is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is paste a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, paste is tagged as noun.
Does paste appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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