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PASTED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pasted mean?
• PASTED (adjective)
The adjective PASTED has 1 sense:
1. affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste
Familiarity information: PASTED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste
Synonyms:
glued; pasted
Context example:
pieces of pasted paper
Similar:
affixed (firmly attached)
Context examples
These bits of wood were covered, on every square, with paper pasted on them; and on these papers were written all the words of their language, in their several moods, tenses, and declensions; but without any order.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
What he had told me, in his room, about his belief in its disseminating the statements pasted on it, which were nothing but old leaves of abortive Memorials, might have been a fancy with him sometimes; but not when he was out, looking up at the kite in the sky, and feeling it pull and tug at his hand.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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)
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