paste
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
paste
n 1: any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency
2: a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making
artificial jewelry
3: an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on
paper and paperboard [syn: {paste}, {library paste}]
4: a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in
preparing other dishes [syn: {spread}, {paste}]
v 1: 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}]
2: hit with the fists; "He pasted his opponent"
3: cover the surface of; "paste the wall with burlap"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust
of pies and the like; pastry dough.
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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.
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4. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously
colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or
gems. See {Strass}.
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5. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit,
licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
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6. (Min.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are
imbedded.
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{Paste eel} (Zool.), the vinegar eel. See under {Vinegar}.
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from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
copy and paste
cut and paste
paste
<text> (Or "cut and paste", after the paper, scissors and glue
method of document production) The system supported by most
document editing applications (e.g. {text editors}) and most
{operating systems} that allows you to select a part of the
document and then save it in a temporary buffer (known
variously as the "clipboard", "cut buffer", "kill ring"). A
"copy" leaves the document unchanged whereas a "cut" deletes
the selected part.
A "paste" inserts the data from the clipboard at the current
position in the document (usually replacing any currently
selected data). This may be done more than once, in more than
one position and in different documents.
More sophisticated {operating systems} support copy and paste
of different data types between different applications,
possibly with automatic format conversion, e.g from {rich
text} to plain {ASCII}.
{GNU Emacs} uses the terms "kill" instead of "cut" and "yank"
instead of "paste" and data is stored in the "kill ring".
[Origin? Macintosh? Xerox?]
(1998-07-01)
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
269 Moby Thesaurus words for "paste":
Italian paste, 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, 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
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