paste

«paste» in Mova's school dictionary: a soft, thick, wet mixture that you can spread, such as… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (paste, pastes — a paste); verb (paste, pastes, pasted, pasting)

meaning for a pupil

1) Paste is a soft, thick, wet mixture that you can spread, such as glue paste or tomato paste. tree →

2) Toothpaste is a paste for cleaning teeth. tree →

3) To paste something is to stick it onto something else with glue. tree →

4) On a computer, to paste is to put text or a picture that you copied or cut into a new place. tree →

5) Paste can also mean the dough that is rolled out to make pies and tarts. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons pupils use paste to stick paper; in cooking a recipe may say «mix into a paste»; in computing «copy and paste» is a basic skill. Phrases: «copy and paste», «cut and paste», «paste it in», «wallpaper paste», «tomato paste».

examples

• We used flour and water to make a paste for our papier-mâché. tree →
• Squeeze a pea-sized amount of toothpaste onto your brush. tree →
• Paste the picture into your scrapbook. tree →
• Select the sentence, copy it, then paste it into your story. tree →
• Mum stirred tomato paste into the sauce. tree →
• Grind the nuts until they become a smooth paste. tree →
• Don't copy and paste work from the internet and call it your own. tree →

note

As a noun usually uncountable («some paste»), but «pastes» for kinds. Past form: «pasted». Do not confuse with «pasta» (Italian noodles) or «pastry» (dough for pies). Copying and pasting someone else's words without saying where they came from is cheating (plagiarism).

In the corpora

• Leafcutter ants cut and carry leaves but do not eat them; they grow a fungus on chewed leaf paste and eat the fungus.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «paste» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.