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PASTE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

paste; spread

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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"):

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)

nut butter (ground nuts blended with a little butter)

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

library paste; paste

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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 3

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 4

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)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Join or attach with or as if with glue

Example:

cut and paste the sentence in the text

Synonyms:

glue; paste

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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:

Cover the surface of

Example:

paste the wall with burlap

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Hit with the fists

Example:

He pasted his opponent

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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

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 Context examples: 

An arbitrary dosing unit used predominantly for semisolid topical formulations such as cream, ointment, paste, etc. One fingertip unit is the amount of a product that is squeezed out from a standard tube with 5-millimeter diameter nozzle along an adult's fingertip.

(Fingertip Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

The famous Master of the Ring was clad in honour of the occasion in a most resplendent scarlet coat worked in gold at the buttonholes, a white stock, a looped hat with a broad black band, buff knee-breeches, white silk stockings, and paste buckles—a costume which did justice to his magnificent figure, and especially to those famous balustrade calves which had helped him to be the finest runner and jumper as well as the most formidable pugilist in England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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)