Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - paste
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n. & v. --n. 1 any moist fairly stiff mixture, esp. of powder and liquid. 2 a dough of flour with fat, water, etc., used in baking. 3 an adhesive of flour, water, etc., esp. for sticking paper and other light materials. 4 an easily spread preparation of ground meat, fish, etc. (anchovy paste). 5 a hard vitreous composition used in making imitation gems. 6 a mixture of clay, water, etc., used in making ceramic ware, esp. a mixture of low plasticity used in making porcelain. --v.tr. 1 fasten or coat with paste. 2 sl. a beat or thrash. b bomb or bombard heavily. Phrases and idioms paste-up a document prepared for copying etc. by combining and pasting various sections on a backing. Derivatives pasting n. (esp. in sense 2 of v.). Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL pasta small square medicinal lozenge f. Gk paste f. pastos sprinkled
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin pasta dough, ~ Date: 14th century 1. a dough that contains a considerable proportion of fat and is used for pastry crust or fancy rolls, a confection made by evaporating fruit with sugar or by flavoring a gelatin, starch, or gum arabic preparation, a smooth food product made by evaporation or grinding , a shaped dough (as spaghetti or ravioli) prepared from semolina, farina, or wheat flour, a soft plastic mixture or composition: as, a preparation usually of flour or starch and water used as an adhesive or a vehicle for mordant or color, clay or a clay mixture used in making pottery or porcelain, a brilliant glass of high lead content used for the manufacture of artificial gems, II. transitive verb (~d; pasting) Date: circa 1562 to cause to adhere by or as if by ~ ; stick, to cover with something ~d on, III. transitive verb (~d; pasting) Etymology: alteration of baste Date: 1846 to strike hard at, to beat or defeat soundly ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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