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

1. noun. 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. noun. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
3. noun. 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. noun. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.
5. noun. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
6. noun. The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
7. transitive verb. To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
8. noun. a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes

   Synonyms: spread

9. noun. an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard
10. noun. any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency
11. noun. a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry
12. verb. join or attach with or as if with glue

    "paste the sign on the wall"

    "cut and paste the sentence in the text"

    Synonyms: glue

13. verb. cover the surface of

    "paste the wall with burlap"

14. verb. hit with the fists

    "He pasted his opponent"

Synonyms

spread, glue

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in paste:

pates, peats, septa, spate, tapes, tepas

Common word forms

pasted, paster, pastes, pasting

Words from these letters

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