Dictionary Entry
paste
paste is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.
- 5noun
A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
- 6noun
The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
- 7transitive verb
To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
- 8noun
a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
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- 9noun
an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard
- 10noun
any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency
- 11noun
a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry
- 12verb
join or attach with or as if with glue
"paste the sign on the wall"
"cut and paste the sentence in the text"
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- 13verb
cover the surface of
"paste the wall with burlap"
- 14verb
hit with the fists
"He pasted his opponent"
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