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Define the word paste

Paste \Paste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Pasting.]
   To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
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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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paste
     n 1: any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency
     2: an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on
        paper and paperboard [syn: library paste]
     3: a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers [syn: spread]
     v 1: join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign ont
          the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text"
          [syn: glue]
     2: hit with the fists; "He pasted his opponent"
     3: cover the surface of; "paste the wall with burlap"

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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