What is "paste"

Paste \Paste\, n. [OF. paste, F. p[^a]te, L. pasta, fr. Gr. ? barley broth; cf. ? barley porridge, ? sprinkled with salt, ? to sprinkle. Cf. Pasty, n., Patty.]

1. A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

2. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.

3. A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.

4. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.

5. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.

6. (Min.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.

   Paste eel (Zo["o]l.), the vinegar eel. See under Vinegar.

Paste \Paste\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pasting.] To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

c.1300 (mid-12c. as a surname), "dough," from Old French paste "dough, pastry" (13c., Modern French pâte), from Late Latin pasta "dough, pastry cake, paste" (see pasta). Meaning "glue mixture" is first attested mid-15c.

"hit hard," 1846, probably an alteration of baste "beat" (see lambaste). Related: Pasted; pasting.

"to stick with paste," 1560s; see paste (n.). Related: Pasted; pasting.

n. 1 A soft mixture, in particular: 2 # One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. 3 # One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste. 4 # One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc. 5 (context physics English) 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 A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. 7 (context obsolete English) past

1. 8 (context mineralogy English) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded. v

2. 1 (context transitive English) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. 2 (context intransitive computing English) To insert a piece of media#Noun2 (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container et

3. ) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. 3 (context transitive informal English) To strike or beat someone or something. 4 (context transitive informal English) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

1. v. join or attach with or as if with glue; "paste the sign ont the wall"; "cut and paste the sentence in the text" [syn: glue]

2. hit with the fists; "He pasted his opponent"

3. cover the surface of; "paste the wall with burlap"

1. n. any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

2. an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard [syn: library paste]

3. a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers [syn: spread]

Paste is a term for any very thick viscous fluid. It may refer to:

Adhesives

• An adhesive
  • Wheatpaste, a liquid adhesive made from vegetable starch and water
  • Wallpaper paste

Food

• Paste (food), a semi-liquid colloidal suspension, emulsion, or aggregation used in food preparation
  • Purée, a food paste made with cooked ingredients
  • Spread (food), a ready-to-eat food paste
• Paste (pasty), a small Cornish style pastry produced in the Mexican state of Hidalgo

Computing

• Cut, copy, and paste, related commands that offer a UI interaction technique for digital transfer from a source to a destination
• paste (Unix), a Unix command line utility which is used to join files horizontally
• Python Paste, a set of utilities for web development in Python

Other uses

• Paste (magazine), a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine
• Paste (rheology), a substance that behaves as a solid and a liquid depending on applied load
• "Paste" (story), a 5,800-word short story by Henry James
• Rhinestone (also "paste"), a diamond simulant made from rock crystal, glass or acrylic

paste is a Unix command line utility which is used to join files horizontally (parallel merging) by outputting lines consisting of the sequentially corresponding lines of each file specified, separated by tabs, to the standard output. It is effectively the horizontal equivalent to the utility cat command which operates on the vertical plane of two or more files.

Paste is a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine published in the United States by Wolfgang's Vault. Its tagline is "Signs of Life in Music, Film and Culture." It ran as a print publication from 2002 to 2010 before converting to online-only.

"Paste" is a 5,800-word short story by Henry James first published in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly in December, 1899. James included the story in his collection, The Soft Side, published by Macmillan the following year. James conceived the story as a clever reversal of Guy de Maupassant's " The Necklace".

A paste is a small pastry produced in the state of Hidalgo in central Mexico and in the surrounding area. They are stuffed with a variety of fillings including potatoes and ground beef, apples, pineapple, sweetened rice, or other typical Mexican ingredients, such as tinga and mole.

Paste is an album by punk rock band Alien Father. It is a compilation of previous work released only to friends, as well as some new material.

In physics, a paste is a substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid. In rheological terms, a paste is an example of a Bingham plastic fluid.

Pastes typically consist of a suspension of granular material in a background fluid. The individual grains are jammed together like sand on a beach, forming a disordered, glassy or amorphous structure, and giving pastes their solid-like character. It is this "jamming together" that gives pastes some of their most unusual properties; this causes paste to demonstrate properties of fragile matter.

In pharmacology, paste is basic pharmaceutical form. It consists of fatty base (e.g., petroleum jelly) and at least 25% solid substance (e.g., zinc oxide).

Examples include starch pastes, toothpaste, mustard, and putty.

A food paste is a semi-liquid colloidal suspension, emulsion, or aggregation used in food preparation or eaten directly as a spread. Pastes are often highly spicy or aromatic, are often prepared well in advance of actual usage, and are often made into a preserve for future use. Common pastes are some fruit preserves, curry pastes, and nut pastes. Purées are food pastes made from already cooked ingredients.

Some food pastes are considered to be condiments and are used directly, while others are made into sauces, which are more liquidy than paste. Ketchup and prepared mustard are pastes that are used both directly as condiments and as ingredients in sauces.

Many food pastes are an intermediary stage in the preparation of food. Perhaps the most notable of such intermediary food pastes is dough. A paste made of fat and flour and often stock or milk is an important intermediary for the basis for a sauce or a binder for stuffing, whether called a beurre manié, a roux or panada. Sago paste is an intermediary stage in the production of sago meal and sago flour from sago palms.

Food for babies and adults who have lost their teeth is often prepared as food pastes. Baby food is often very bland, while older adults often required increased spiciness in their food pastes.