'Paste' definitions:
Definition of 'paste'
From: WordNet
noun
Any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency
noun
A hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry
noun
An adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard [syn: paste, library paste]
noun
A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes [syn: spread, paste]
verb
Join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign on the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text" [syn: glue, paste]
verb
Hit with the fists; "He pasted his opponent"
verb
Cover the surface of; "paste the wall with burlap"
Definition of 'Paste'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Paste'
From: GCIDE
- Paste \Paste\ (p[=a]st), n. [OF. paste, F. p[^a]te, L. pasta, fr. Gr. ? barley broth; cf. ? barley porridge, ? sprinkled with salt, ? to sprinkle. Cf. Pasty, n., Patty.]
- 1. A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Min.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded. [1913 Webster]
- Paste eel (Zool.), the vinegar eel. See under Vinegar. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'paste'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adherent,
- adhesive,
- admixture,
- agglutinate,
- albumen,
- alloy,
- amalgam,
- bang,
- barnacle,
- bash,
- baste,
- bat,
- batter,
- beat,
- belabor,
- belt,
- biff,
- bijouterie,
- bind,
- blank,
- blend,
- bonk,
- bonnyclabber,
- box,
- bramble,
- bravery,
- braze,
- brier,
- buffet,
- bulldog,
- bulldoze,
- burr,
- bust,
- butter,
- cataplasm,
- cement,
- cheat,
- chiffon,
- clabber,
- clap,
- clinquant,
- clip,
- clobber,
- clout,
- clump,
- coldcock,
- combination,
- combo,
- commixture,
- composite,
- composition,
- compound,
- concoction,
- confection,
- cornstarch,
- costume jewelry,
- counterfeit,
- crack,
- cream,
- crush,
- curd,
- cut,
- dash,
- deal,
- deal a blow,
- decal,
- decalcomania,
- deck,
- defeat utterly,
- dental pulp,
- dough,
- drub,
- dummy,
- dumpling,
- egg white,
- ensemble,
- fake,
- fakement,
- fedellini,
- festoons,
- fetch,
- fetch a blow,
- fettuccine,
- finery,
- flail,
- flap,
- folderol,
- foofaraw,
- forgery,
- frame-up,
- fraud,
- frilliness,
- frilling,
- frills,
- frills and furbelows,
- frippery,
- froufrou,
- fuse,
- fuss,
- gaiety,
- gaudery,
- gaum,
- gel,
- gelatin,
- gilding,
- gilt,
- gingerbread,
- glair,
- glass,
- glop,
- glue,
- gluten,
- goo,
- gook,
- goop,
- gruel,
- gum,
- gumbo,
- gunk,
- hammer,
- haymaker,
- hit,
- hit a clip,
- hoax,
- ice,
- imitation,
- immixture,
- impostor,
- intermixture,
- Italian paste,
- jab,
- jam,
- jell,
- jelly,
- jewelry,
- junk,
- junk jewelry,
- knaydlach,
- knock,
- knock cold,
- knock down,
- knock out,
- lambaste,
- larrup,
- lasagne,
- leech,
- let have it,
- limpet,
- loblolly,
- macaroni,
- magma,
- mash,
- matzo balls,
- maul,
- mixture,
- mock,
- molasses,
- mucilage,
- mucus,
- mush,
- noodles,
- overbear,
- overwhelm,
- pap,
- paper pulp,
- pasta,
- patter,
- pelt,
- phony,
- pinchbeck,
- pith,
- plaster,
- plunk,
- poke,
- pommel,
- porridge,
- poultice,
- pound,
- prickle,
- pudding,
- pulp,
- pulp lead,
- pulpwood,
- pulverize,
- pummel,
- punch,
- puree,
- put-on,
- put-up job,
- putty,
- rag pulp,
- rap,
- ravioli,
- remora,
- rip-off,
- rob,
- sauce,
- scatter pins,
- schmear,
- semifluid,
- semiliquid,
- sham,
- shellac,
- shoddy,
- shut out,
- simulacrum,
- size,
- skunk,
- slam,
- sledgehammer,
- slog,
- slug,
- smack,
- smash,
- smear,
- smite,
- snap,
- snow under,
- soak,
- sock,
- solder,
- soup,
- spaetzle,
- spaghetti,
- spaghettini,
- spank,
- sponge,
- squash,
- starch,
- steamroller,
- stick together,
- sticker,
- sticky mess,
- strike,
- strike at,
- sulfate pulp,
- sulfite pulp,
- superfluity,
- swack,
- swat,
- swindle,
- swipe,
- syrup,
- thorn,
- thrash,
- thresh,
- thump,
- thwack,
- tinsel,
- trappings,
- treacle,
- trickery,
- trumpery,
- vermicelli,
- wallop,
- weld,
- whack,
- wham,
- whelm,
- whip,
- white lead,
- whited sepulcher,
- whitewash,
- whomp,
- whop,
- won ton,
- wood pulp,
- yerk,
- ziti
Words containing 'Paste'
- Past,
- Pasted,
- Pasting,
- pastness,
- By-past,
- German paste,
- Jujube paste,
- London paste,
- Past expression,
- Past master,
- Past question,
- Paste eel,
- Vienna paste,
- alimentary paste,
- anchovy paste,
- go past,
- library paste,
- past due,
- past participle,
- past perfect,
- past progressive,
- past tense,
- past times,
- paste-up,
- pouf paste,
- puff paste,
- tomato paste,
- Distributing past office,
- dead hand of the past,
- past perfect tense,
- past progressive tense