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paste

/peɪst/noun, verb1 syllable

Paste means: an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard.

Synonyms for paste4

noun, as in an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard

library paste

noun, as in a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes

verb, as in join or attach with or as if with glue

also used for paste

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What does paste mean?7

noun

1

an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard

2

a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes

3

any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

4

a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry

verb

1

join or attach with or as if with glue“paste the sign on the wall”

2

hit with the fists“He pasted his opponent”

3

cover the surface of“paste the wall with burlap”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with paste?21

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Paste in a sentence

  • When autumn comes, the children paste beautiful leaves into collages.Objectivesea
  • I stuck two sheets of paper together with paste.CK
  • The monster's saliva became a paste-like substance.Amastan
  • John put the paste on his face for an hour.Amastan
  • Mayonnaise and sesame paste go really well together.pip
  • His report was a copy-and-paste of another.FeuDRenais2
  • My botched sentence must be the stillborn child of an aborted copy and paste.belgavox
  • It's not allowed to paste paper on the wall.mervert1

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of paste

as a noun

plural
pastes

as a verb

past tense
pasted
present participle
pasting
third-person singular
pastes
past participle
pasted