1A thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid.

1. 1.1A paste used as an adhesive, especially for sticking paper.
   ‘wallpaper paste’
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   • ‘On the contrary, the appearance of the soggy paper and paste looked rather ugly.’
   • ‘Halfway through the meal the pasta is congealed - a rubbery blob of gooey stuff fit only for use as paste to stick fliers to subway walls.’
   • ‘Is it magic, ghosts, or a weird adhesive concocted from ancient wallpaper paste, tobacco smoke and grime?’
   • ‘Like visitors pretending they hadn't noticed the damp odour of fresh wallpaper paste, the opposition averted their eyes and didn't mention a thing.’
   • ‘Just about every one of your favourite bands at one point was standing on a street corner with a bucket full of wallpaper paste and a paintbrush.’
   • ‘Developed by Watts over five years, the product comes in rolls and is applied with wallpaper paste, so it is easy to strip off later if required.’
   • ‘We had boiled potatoes and steamed cod, served with sauce that could have passed for wallpaper paste.’
   • ‘Most professionals apply paste even to pre-pasted wallpaper.’
   • ‘You can buy the wallpaper paste at your hardware store.’
   • ‘Once they reach the house, however, it's back to normal as Charlie all but smothers his boss in wallpaper paste and leaves the house in ruins.’
   • ‘It was a brilliant speck of chilli in a sea of wallpaper paste.’
   • ‘Use an Electric Steamer: An electric steamer can be used as an alternative to a chemical remover for softening the wallpaper paste.’
   • ‘Aidan launched himself at me, squeaking, and covered me in flour and something that looked suspiciously like wall-paper paste.’
   • ‘The sticky nature of gluten has been utilized as a paper and fabric glue, as in making papier-mâché and wallpaper paste.’
   • ‘A handy tip is to give the walls one or two coats of emulsion or a coat of paste before you wallpaper.’
   • ‘The main weapon used in the battle against leaves is a substance called Sandite. It looks like gritty wallpaper paste and it helps trains to get a better grip on the rails.’
   • ‘I'm not sure if the tape they provide have any thermal conductivity properties, but you can easily use your favorite thermal epoxy or paste.’
   • ‘You must also carefully rinse the entire wall surface so there are no traces of paste or wallpaper stripper remaining behind, before you paint.’
   • ‘I could see a few election posters here and there and some people hanging around those tables that you use to put paste on the back of wallpaper.’
   • ‘For newer plastic-coated papers, ask your wallpaper store for the correct paste.’
   Synonyms

   adhesive, glue, gum, fixative

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2. 1.2A savoury spread.
   ‘salmon paste’
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   • ‘Stir in the remaining pork tongue, chili paste and miso.’
   • ‘Spread this paste on the ‘presentation’ side of each fish fillet and place on a foil-lined tray under the grill.’
   • ‘4 Spread this paste on both sides of the chops in a shallow dish, cover and chill for at least 6 hours.’
   • ‘Cook two minutes, then add galangal, shallots, curry paste and curry powder.’
   • ‘The sesame seed paste adds a satisfying richness, but it can be left out if you are watching your weight - especially if you are watching it go up.’
   • ‘Add the chicken stock, vinegar, ketchup, sugar, soy sauce, fish sauce, chili paste, and tamarind purée.’
   • ‘Make the dressing by mixing the yoghurt, tahini paste and olive oil in a blender or with a small whisk.’
   • ‘Place the oil, chopped chilli, garlic and curry powder or paste in a saucepan and fry gently for about a minute, stirring well to release the flavours of the spices.’
   • ‘For extra heat, top with chili paste or sliced jalapeño peppers.’
   • ‘Second, it uses chile-garlic paste instead of black pepper.’
   • ‘You can preserve the purée by spreading the paste onto the roasting tray and putting it back in the oven at the lowest temperature for 8-12 hours.’
   • ‘Anyways, I whipped some butter and put some of the pistachio paste instead of ground pistachio nuts as instructed in the recipe.’
   • ‘For example the Thai fishcakes are medallions of sole and prawn mousse, blended in red curry paste with cucumber dressing.’
   • ‘Place miso paste in a bowl and add 3tbsp of boiling water, whisking to remove lumps.’
   • ‘Lower heat and add stock, coconut milk, curry powder, chili paste and fish sauce.’
   • ‘Keep the pan very hot and stir in two dessert spoons of the chilli paste, the chopped chilli, fish sauce and the shallot.’
   • ‘Combine saikyo miso, egg yolk, sesame seed paste, sake and sugar in a double boiler and cook for 10 minutes.’
   • ‘The eggplant particularly excited me, being a large skinned half, baked to goo and topped with beige soybean paste, the whole going down like savoury toffee'd banana.’
   • ‘In a bowl, combine the miso paste, yusu kosho, onion purée, and honey.’
   • ‘Wasabi, white miso paste and sushi rice share space with tins of golden syrup (for treacle tart) and packets of Smarties.’
   Synonyms

   spread, pâté

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3. 1.3A mixture consisting mainly of clay and water that is used in making ceramic ware, especially a mixture of low plasticity based on kaolin for making porcelain.
   ‘The glaze could have been applied as a dry powder, although most was applied as a water based paste.’
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   • ‘After this process, the replica is coated with a thin layer of clay paste and allowed to dry.’
4. 1.4A hard vitreous composition used in making imitation gems.
   as modifier ‘paste brooches’
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   • ‘The shop was promoting gold brooches from six shillings and sixpence, and gilt paste brooches from one shilling.’
   • ‘In its original sense enamel is glass or vitreous paste fused to a prepared surface, usually of metal, by means of intense heat.’
   • ‘His daughter Queen Elizabeth I was the first to wear paste jewellery to make herself look richer that she really was.’
   • ‘They jumped as a lady dressed in rags and paste jewels stepped inside the room.’
   • ‘The necklace shown in Plate VII is set with paste stones replicating emeralds.’

1Coat with paste.

1. 1.1with object and adverbial of place Fasten or stick (something) with paste.
   ‘the posters were pasted up on to street noticeboards’
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   • ‘All Katie wants to do is cut out pictures from magazines and paste them to a poster board.’
   • ‘Collect these, paste them on a poster board, and laminate.’
   • ‘Just use decoupage glue to paste newspaper or magazine clippings on a $2 wooden box.’
   • ‘Some of them had their hands dripping with glue as they pasted old papers onto clay sculptures.’
   • ‘Effigies of hated opponents were burned at the stake, insulting posters were pasted on walls and there were daily processions and tableaux.’
   • ‘One of the regulars was the man who walked around the town pasting large posters on the walls, usually obituary notices.’
   • ‘For them, my party was just the prelude to a hard night of cold, illegal work pasting posters on the walls of Friedrichshain.’
   • ‘In perfect irony, one of them was seen pasting posters on the pedestal of the Kamaraj statue to publicise an agitation in the city on Tuesday.’
   • ‘The portraits of Ivor and Janet were pasted on one wall.’
   • ‘While studying, he looks up at a photocopy of a dashboard and an instrument panel that's pasted on the wall, and goes through the flying procedure in his brain as if he were on the aircraft.’
   • ‘I know I'm pasting a big fat target on myself, but the answer's not all that controversial: the difference is in the labor costs.’
   • ‘And here's the warning that's pasted to the windows in Lloyd Hall.’
   • ‘The stamps, redeemable for (in contest parlance) fabulous prizes, must be pasted into little books before they can be used.’
   • ‘Pamphlets, demanding immediate inclusion of the ‘ignored language’ on signboards, were pasted all over.’
   • ‘Vodka distillers, who are held in higher esteem than food producers in Russia, were unable to secure the new excise stamps which have to be pasted on bottle labels.’
   • ‘People who stick up fly posters were given a taste of their own medicine when a Swindon councillor pasted a ‘cancelled’ sign on one of their illegal bills.’
   • ‘City of York IV were pasted 6-0 in division four by a skilful Lincoln II.’
   • ‘I realised that the rest of the models, all costed $80 plus, so the one I chose must have been pasted with a wrong price tag.’
   • ‘Some campaigners created billboard sized pictures and messages, which were pasted onto empty billboards.’
   • ‘A traditional Bermuda kite comprises a strung wooden frame, onto which are pasted sheets of brightly coloured tissue paper.’
   Synonyms

   glue, stick, fasten, gum, fix, affix

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2. 1.2Computing Insert (a piece of text or other data copied from elsewhere).
   ‘When previewing a set of sliced images, the HTML is in this window for simple copying and pasting into your HTML document.’
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   • ‘Well, this is only a tiny matter of technology: all he needs to do is copy the relevant section and paste it into his document.’
   • ‘Once copied, the text is easily pasted into another document and read.’
   • ‘Too much online information is ephemeral - so we end up emailing things to ourselves, copy and pasting into new documents and losing context.’
   • ‘To see what they see, highlight your entire page and paste it into a text editor.’
   • ‘When accounts are created, a list of first and last names is typed or pasted into a text box.’
   • ‘It also allows the user to copy and paste the text into a word processor, email or clipboard.’
   • ‘The BEA example above just gives an error message when pasted into another browser.’
   • ‘Simply copy the entire word processor document and paste it to the first cell in a blank spreadsheet.’
   • ‘Excuse the format - I'm cutting and pasting from a plain text document, and I don't want to correct all the spacing issues.’
   • ‘Next, I opened ‘Microsoft Word’, and then pasted the copied web document into Word.’
   • ‘Another approach to this is to copy what you want to print by pasting in to either a text editor, or WordPad.’
   • ‘Sections of the world trade agreement have simply been pasted into the draft negotiating text, ensuring that corporate freedom overrides environmental protection.’
   • ‘Markup created in Fireworks can also be pasted or imported into Dreamweaver.’
   • ‘An index must first be created, and URLs for links instead of page numbers need to be manually pasted.’
   • ‘In particular, copying and pasting often eliminates specific formatting of Web pages, and necessitates keeping a document open for the information to be collected in.’
   • ‘At the end of the project, all of the references can be gathered together and pasted into a document as a bibliography.’
   • ‘It is so simple to lift text by cutting and pasting,’ he said.’
   • ‘Naturally, the program allows files to be dragged from Windows Explorer, as well as supports coping and pasting to/from clipboard.’
   • ‘So, I expect to be able to select text and copy it to a clipboard, for pasting elsewhere.’

2informal Beat or defeat severely.