Paste
noun
A soft, moist, often thick substance that sticks and can be spread easily.
Apply a small amount of toothpaste to your toothbrush.
Often appears as...
- toothpaste
- paste of garlic
verb
To stick or attach something to something else using a paste.
She pasted the picture onto the wall.
Often appears as...
- paste it on
- paste it together
verb
In computing, to place a copy of (data) in a temporary storage location.
You can copy the text and then paste it into an email.
Often appears as...
- paste it here
- copy and paste
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A high-quality glass made to look like precious gems.
Their jewelry was just paste, not real diamonds.
Often appears as...
- paste jewelry
- paste diamonds
verb
To strike hard or repeatedly.
He pasted his opponent in the boxing ring.
Often appears as...
- paste him good
- paste the enemy
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A soft, moist, often thick substance that sticks and can be spread easily.
Apply a small amount of toothpaste to your toothbrush.
Often appears as...
- toothpaste
- paste of garlic
verb
To stick or attach something to something else using a paste.
She pasted the picture onto the wall.
Often appears as...
- paste it on
- paste it together
verb
In computing, to place a copy of (data) in a temporary storage location.
You can copy the text and then paste it into an email.
Often appears as...
- paste it here
- copy and paste
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A high-quality glass made to look like precious gems.
Their jewelry was just paste, not real diamonds.
Often appears as...
- paste jewelry
- paste diamonds
verb
To strike hard or repeatedly.
He pasted his opponent in the boxing ring.
Often appears as...
- paste him good
- paste the enemy
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/2Spreadable Consistency
Refers to texture that's easily spread, like butter on bread, often used for substances in cooking or personal care.
Mix until you get a smooth paste that can be spread on toast.
Pro Tip 2/2Adhesive Property
Used to describe something that can stick or adhere objects together, commonly found in crafts or building.
Use the wallpaper paste to attach it firmly to the wall.
Pro Tip 1/2Spreadable Consistency
Refers to texture that's easily spread, like butter on bread, often used for substances in cooking or personal care.
Mix until you get a smooth paste that can be spread on toast.
Pro Tip 2/2Adhesive Property
Used to describe something that can stick or adhere objects together, commonly found in crafts or building.
Use the wallpaper paste to attach it firmly to the wall.
Pro Tip 1/2Spreadable Consistency
Refers to texture that's easily spread, like butter on bread, often used for substances in cooking or personal care.
Mix until you get a smooth paste that can be spread on toast.
Pro Tip 2/2Adhesive Property
Used to describe something that can stick or adhere objects together, commonly found in crafts or building.
Use the wallpaper paste to attach it firmly to the wall.
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Why it's so hard to make...
We are always on our best behavior when we're being observed. In fact, there was this amazing study that was done in an intensive care unit in a Florida hospital. The handwashing rates were very low, which is dangerous, of course, because it can spread infection. And so some researchers pasted a picture of someone's eyes over the sink.
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How the Panama Papers...
as the loneliest man in the world. For nine months, he refused paid work and lived off the earnings of his wife. He pasted tarps over the windows of his home to prevent prying eyes during the long Icelandic winter. And he soon ran out of excuses to explain his many absences, as he worked red-eyed,
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TED's secret to great...
CRISPR allows you to cut and paste genetic information really easily." Now, a vivid explanation like that delivers a satisfying aha moment as it snaps into place in our minds. It's important, therefore, to test your talk on trusted friends, and find out which parts they get confused by.
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One year of turning the...
I said, look, I'm going to switch my concept. You are going to take the photos. You're going to send them to me. I'm going to print them and send them back to you. Then you're going to paste them where it makes sense for you to place your own statement. This is Inside Out.
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Safari Live - Day 320 PIPE...
two very characteristic lines on the side you see the youngster on the right was busy pasting that sort of hyena behavior where they take their anal gland and they secrete a paste onto some vegetation something that youngsters practice and do a lot around the den
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On spaghetti sauce -...
go to the bottom and the prego would sit on top that's called adherence and anyway despite the fact that they were far superior in adherence and the quality of their tomato paste prego was struggling so they came to howard and they said fix us
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Life of Insects PIPE...
become nursemaids on their behalf this Californian desert hardly seems to be the best paste of our nursemaids but blister beetles have an amazing way of discovering them it starts simply enough with the female
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The Beauty of What We'll...
and on some of them he had pasted little black-and-white worn snapshots of his new foreign friends. So when we said goodbye that night, I realized he had also shown me the secret point of travel,
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Use art to turn the...
the complicated circumstances of their conflict. I just observed. Sometimes there was no words, no sentence, just tears. I just took their pictures and pasted them.
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Living in a shadow PIPE...
stop Claire said it knew you were coming she cuts three paper birds out of she cut out three paper birds and pasted them to the window to warn the bird away
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Why it's so hard to make...
We are always on our best behavior when we're being observed. In fact, there was this amazing study that was done in an intensive care unit in a Florida hospital. The handwashing rates were very low, which is dangerous, of course, because it can spread infection. And so some researchers pasted a picture of someone's eyes over the sink.
Video examples
How the Panama Papers...
as the loneliest man in the world. For nine months, he refused paid work and lived off the earnings of his wife. He pasted tarps over the windows of his home to prevent prying eyes during the long Icelandic winter. And he soon ran out of excuses to explain his many absences, as he worked red-eyed,
Video examples
TED's secret to great...
CRISPR allows you to cut and paste genetic information really easily." Now, a vivid explanation like that delivers a satisfying aha moment as it snaps into place in our minds. It's important, therefore, to test your talk on trusted friends, and find out which parts they get confused by.
Video examples
One year of turning the...
I said, look, I'm going to switch my concept. You are going to take the photos. You're going to send them to me. I'm going to print them and send them back to you. Then you're going to paste them where it makes sense for you to place your own statement. This is Inside Out.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 320 PIPE...
two very characteristic lines on the side you see the youngster on the right was busy pasting that sort of hyena behavior where they take their anal gland and they secrete a paste onto some vegetation something that youngsters practice and do a lot around the den
Video examples
On spaghetti sauce -...
go to the bottom and the prego would sit on top that's called adherence and anyway despite the fact that they were far superior in adherence and the quality of their tomato paste prego was struggling so they came to howard and they said fix us
Video examples
Life of Insects PIPE...
become nursemaids on their behalf this Californian desert hardly seems to be the best paste of our nursemaids but blister beetles have an amazing way of discovering them it starts simply enough with the female
Video examples
The Beauty of What We'll...
and on some of them he had pasted little black-and-white worn snapshots of his new foreign friends. So when we said goodbye that night, I realized he had also shown me the secret point of travel,
Video examples
Use art to turn the...
the complicated circumstances of their conflict. I just observed. Sometimes there was no words, no sentence, just tears. I just took their pictures and pasted them.
Video examples
Living in a shadow PIPE...
stop Claire said it knew you were coming she cuts three paper birds out of she cut out three paper birds and pasted them to the window to warn the bird away
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Stewart Butterfield
Canadian Businessman
We'd never make Slack an email client, but it's good to support sending emails into it. There's quite a bit of formatting you can do. When I get an email from the outside world that I want to share with team, I cut and paste it into Slack. But really, I should be able to import that email as an object.
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Sarah Cooper
Jamaican Comedian
In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills.
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Iris Apfel
American Businesswoman
You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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Steve Jurvetson
American Businessman
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.
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Steve Jobs
American Businessman
Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.
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Franchesca Ramsey
American Comedian
I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care to reflect on my day and write words that inspire me or paste business cards and pictures.
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Kristin Hersh
American Musician
That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.
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Eva Gabor
Hungarian Actress
East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
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Paul Fleischman
American Writer
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
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William Allen White
American Editor
Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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Stewart Butterfield
Canadian Businessman
We'd never make Slack an email client, but it's good to support sending emails into it. There's quite a bit of formatting you can do. When I get an email from the outside world that I want to share with team, I cut and paste it into Slack. But really, I should be able to import that email as an object.
Quote examples
Sarah Cooper
Jamaican Comedian
In the corporate world, there is no ground more fertile for appearing smart than the rich earth that is electronic communication. Your email writing, sending and ignoring skills are just as important as your nodding skills, and even more important than your copying and pasting skills.
Quote examples
Iris Apfel
American Businesswoman
You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
Quote examples
Steve Jurvetson
American Businessman
The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.
Quote examples
Steve Jobs
American Businessman
Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient.
Quote examples
Franchesca Ramsey
American Comedian
I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care to reflect on my day and write words that inspire me or paste business cards and pictures.
Quote examples
Kristin Hersh
American Musician
That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.
Quote examples
Eva Gabor
Hungarian Actress
East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
Quote examples
Paul Fleischman
American Writer
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
Quote examples
William Allen White
American Editor
Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.
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