PASTE
What does "PASTE" mean?
A soft, moist, sticky mixture, or to stick something using such a substance.
Meanings
- A soft, moist, often sticky substance, used for joining, spreading, or as food. Mix the flour and water into a thin paste.
- To stick or fasten something using paste or glue. She pasted the photos into the album.
- In computing, to insert previously copied text or data at a chosen point. Copy the address and paste it into the search bar. technical
- A hard, brilliant glass used to make imitation gems. The crown's jewels turned out to be paste.
Did you know?
- The 'paste' in copy-and-paste is a real glue: the computing command borrows its name from the old practice of cutting out strips of typed text and pasting them onto a layout page.
Word origin
From Old French 'paste' (dough), from Late Latin 'pasta' (dough, pastry); the same root that gives 'pasta'. The 'copy/paste' sense comes from physically pasting cut text onto a page.
Remember it
PASTE shares its root with PASTA - both are soft, sticky dough at heart.
A little poem
Flour and water learn to hold their shape-
from dough we glue the world, and seal each gap.
couplet
Wordplay
- I told the jeweller her diamonds looked fake. She said relax, it's all just copy and paste.
What it teaches
What binds things together is rarely glamorous; the humble paste holds the bright collage.
Quick facts
What does PASTE mean?
A soft, moist, sticky mixture, or to stick something using such a substance.
Is PASTE a valid word?
Yes — PASTE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PASTE?
PASTE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does PASTE come from?
From Old French 'paste' (dough), from Late Latin 'pasta' (dough, pastry); the same root that gives 'pasta'. The 'copy/paste' sense comes from physically pasting cut text onto a page.
What can PASTE teach us?
What binds things together is rarely glamorous; the humble paste holds the bright collage.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.