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# paste

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

«paste» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Paste is a soft, thick, wet mixture that you can spread, such as glue paste or tomato paste. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#m1)
2. Toothpaste is a paste for cleaning teeth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#m2)
3. To paste something is to stick it onto something else with glue. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#m3)
4. On a computer, to paste is to put text or a picture that you copied or cut into a new place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#m4)
5. Paste can also mean the dough that is rolled out to make pies and tarts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#m5)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#x1)
- Squeeze a pea-sized amount of toothpaste onto your brush. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#x2)
- Paste the picture into your scrapbook. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#x3)
- Select the sentence, copy it, then paste it into your story. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#x4)
- Mum stirred tomato paste into the sauce. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#x5)
- Grind the nuts until they become a smooth paste. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#x6)
- Don't copy and paste work from the internet and call it your own. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/#x7)

### 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).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «paste» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/paste/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«paste» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/paste.html) on Mova free.