Definitions for paste

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Spelling: [peyst]

IPA: /peɪst/

Paste is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in paste (aepst).

Definitions for paste

noun

1. a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
2. any soft, smooth, and plastic material or preparation.
3. dough, especially when prepared with shortening, as for making pie crust and other pastry:
4. any of various semisoft fruit confections of pliable consistency:
5. a preparation of fish, tomatoes, or other food reduced to a smooth, soft mass, as for a relish or for seasoning.
6. pasta.
7. a mixture of clay, water, etc., for making pottery or porcelain.
8. Jewelry. a brilliant, heavy glass, as strass, used for making artificial gems. an artificial gem of this material.
9. Slang. a hard smack, blow, or punch, especially on the face.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten or stick with paste or the like.
2. to cover with something applied by means of paste.
3. Slang. to hit (a person) hard, especially on the face.
4. Computers. to insert (copied text, images, etc.) into a file. Compare copy (def 15), cut (def 24).

verb (used without object)

1. Computers. to insert copied text, images, etc., into a file. Compare cut (def 42).

Origin of paste

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Late Latin pasta dough Greek pastá barley porridge, noun use of neuter plural of pastós, verbid of pássein to strew, sprinkle; a pasta was originally a

Examples for paste

Labels will give you artist bios—with a quick copy and paste, you could provide that info to us, too!

Headache—Take the rinds of a couple of lemons and squash it into a paste.

The regime does not paste over the clean windows of the upper class.

When éclairs are desired, make the paste as for cream puffs.

If wrapped in paste, it will not be done in less than five hours.

Whiter Teeth—Make a paste by crushing some basil leaves with the zest of an orange.

I paste my walls with maps, drawings, lines of poetry, and sketch out a vague structure.

What may be done with bits of paste not utilized in making pies?

Butter a deep dish, and line the bottom and sides of it with paste.

Butter the sides of a pot, and line them with paste nearly to the top.