paste — Dictionnaire anglais

Nom

1. A soft moist mixture, in particular: One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • indénombrable

2. A soft moist mixture, in particular: Pastry.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • désuet
   • indénombrable

   Exemples

   Plus d’exemples (1)

   And that day month, he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.

3. A soft moist mixture, in particular: One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • indénombrable

4. A soft moist mixture, in particular: One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • indénombrable

   Synonymes

   glueadhesive

   Exemples

   Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive

5. A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • indénombrable

6. A hard lead-containing glass; an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • indénombrable

   Exemples

   Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.

7. Pasta.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • désuet
   • indénombrable

   Exemples

   This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.

   Plus d’exemples (1)

   Vermicelli for soups, is paste from Italy; so called because it looks like worms. My macaroni, paste from Italy—My salop, a root ground to powder—the root of one kind of orchis.

8. The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

   Usage

   • dénombrable
   • indénombrable

Verbe

1. To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.

   Usage

   • transitif

2. To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

   Usage

   • transitif

Verbe

1. To strike or beat someone or something.

   Usage

   • argot
   • transitif

   Exemples

   He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

2. To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

   Usage

   • argot
   • transitif

Nom

1. any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

   Termes génériques

   composition

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

   Termes génériques

   lead glass

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

   Synonymes

   library paste

   Termes génériques

   adhesive materialadhesive agentadhesive

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

   Synonymes

   spread

   Termes génériques

   condiment

Verbe

1. join or attach with or as if with glue

   Synonymes

   glue

   Termes génériques

   attach

   Exemples

   paste the sign on the wall

   cut and paste the sentence in the text

2. hit with the fists

   Termes génériques

   beat

   Exemples

   He pasted his opponent

3. cover the surface of

   Termes génériques

   cover

   Exemples

   paste the wall with burlap