paste

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A soft moist mixture, in particular:
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A soft moist mixture, in particular:

   “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. (countable, uncountable)A soft moist mixture, in particular:
4. (countable, uncountable)A soft moist mixture, in particular:

   “Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive”

5. (countable, uncountable)A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
6. (countable, uncountable)A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

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

7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Pasta.

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

   “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. (countable, uncountable)The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
9. (form-of, plural, rare)plural of pasta

verb

1. (transitive)To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
2. (transitive)To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
3. (slang, transitive)To strike or beat someone or something.

   “He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.”

4. (slang, transitive)To defeat decisively or by a large margin.