PASTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paste mean? 

• PASTE (noun)
  The noun PASTE has 4 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: PASTE used as a noun is uncommon.

• PASTE (verb)
  The verb PASTE has 3 senses:

1. join or attach with or as if with glue

2. hit with the fists

3. cover the surface of

  Familiarity information: PASTE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PASTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("paste" is a kind of...):

composition (a mixture of ingredients)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("paste" is a kind of...):

lead glass (glass containing lead oxide; has a high refractive index)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

library paste; paste

Hypernyms ("paste" is a kind of...):

adhesive; adhesive agent; adhesive material (a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paste"):

wafer (a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters)

Derivation:

paste (join or attach with or as if with glue)

pasty (having the sticky properties of an adhesive)

pasty (resembling paste in color; pallid)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

paste; spread

Hypernyms ("paste" is a kind of...):

condiment (a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paste"):

nut butter (ground nuts blended with a little butter)

tahini (a thick Middle Eastern paste made from ground sesame seeds)

tapenade (a spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil)

pate (liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned)

hommos; hoummos; hummus; humous; humus (a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East)

miso (a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces)

garlic butter (butter seasoned with mashed garlic)

fishpaste (a paste of fish or shellfish)

anchovy butter (butter blended with mashed anchovies)

cheese spread (spread made of cheese mixed with butter or cream or cream cheese and seasonings)

lobster butter (butter blended with chopped lobster or seasoned with essence from lobster shells)

shrimp butter (butter blended with chopped shrimp or seasoned with essence from shrimp shells)

pimento butter (butter blended with mashed pimento)

onion butter (butter blended with minced onion)

marshmallow fluff (a very sweet white spread resembling marshmallow candy)

peanut butter (a spread made from ground peanuts)

margarin; margarine; marge; oleo; oleomargarine (a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter)

• PASTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they paste    ... he / she / it pastes   
Past simple: pasted   
Past participle: pasted   
-ing form: pasting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Join or attach with or as if with glue

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

glue; paste

Context example:

cut and paste the sentence in the text

Hypernyms (to "paste" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "paste"):

epoxy (glue with epoxy)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

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

paster (an adhesive label)

paster (a workman who pastes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hit with the fists

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

He pasted his opponent

Hypernyms (to "paste" is one way to...):

beat (hit repeatedly)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to paste his opponent

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cover the surface of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

paste the wall with burlap

Hypernyms (to "paste" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

paster (a workman who pastes)

 Context examples 

A paste intended for administration through the mouth.

(Oral Paste Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A paste formulation intended to clean and/or polish the teeth, and which may contain certain additional agents.

(Dentifrice Paste Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And all because she will not find a beggarly sum which she could get by turning her diamonds into paste.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A paste of mild abrasives, detergents, flavoring agents, binders, fluoride, and other active and/or inert ingredient(s).

(Dentifrice Paste Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

She says that the standard treatment given to malnourished children in different countries is a high-energy food paste which has only modest amounts of vital micronutrients such as vitamin D3.

(Vitamin D3 boost helps treat child malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

One winter’s night, as we sat together by the fire, I ventured to suggest to him that, as he had finished pasting extracts into his common-place book, he might employ the next two hours in making our room a little more habitable.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the empty bottles ran short, there were labels to be pasted on full ones, or corks to be fitted to them, or seals to be put upon the corks, or finished bottles to be packed in casks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While I picked the fruit, and she made the paste for the pies, she proceeded to give me sundry details about her deceased master and mistress, and "the childer," as she called the young people.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Boys go nutting, and I don't care to be bagged by them, returned Jo, pasting away at the kite which no wind that blows would ever carry up, for Daisy had tied herself on as a bob.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)