paste
paste [paste pastes pasted pasting] noun, verb BrE [peɪst] NAmE [peɪst]
noun
1. singular a soft wet mixture, usually made of a powder and a liquid
•She mixed the flour and water to a smooth paste.
2. countable (especially in compounds)a smooth mixture of crushed meat, fish, etc. that is spread on bread or used in cooking
3. uncountable a type of glue that is used for sticking paper to things
•wallpaper paste
4. uncountable a substance like glass, that is used for making artificial ↑jewels, for example diamonds
Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin pasta ‘medicinal preparation in the shape of a small square’, probably from Greek pastē, (plural) pasta ‘barley porridge’, from pastos ‘sprinkled’.
Example Bank:
•Apply the wallpaper paste with a roller.
•Mix the flour with enough water to form a thick paste.
•Mix the sugar mixture to a smooth paste.
verb
1. transitive ~ sth + adv./prep. to stick sth to sth else using glue or ↑paste
•He pasted the pictures into his scrapbook.
•Paste the two pieces together.
•Paste down the edges.
2. transitive ~ sth to make sth by sticking pieces of paper together
•The children were busy cutting and pasting paper hats.
3. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) (computing)to copy or move text into a document from another place or another document
•This function allows you to cut and paste text.
•It's quicker to cut and paste than to retype.
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin pasta ‘medicinal preparation in the shape of a small square’, probably from Greek pastē, (plural) pasta ‘barley porridge’, from pastos ‘sprinkled’.
Example Bank:
•Each photograph is pasted down carefully.
•She pasted the pictures into her book.
•There were posters pasted on the walls.
•You can cut and paste between different programs.
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