paste

1. 1.

   join or attach with or as if with glue

   “paste the sign on the wall”

   “cut and paste the sentence in the text”

   Synonymsglue

   Broaderattach

   Narrowerepoxy
2. 2.

   hit with the fists

   “He pasted his opponent”

   Broaderbeat
3. 3.

   cover the surface of

   “paste the wall with burlap”

   Broadercover

Other forms of paste

plural

pastes·

past tense

pasted·

present participle

pasting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about paste

What does paste mean?

paste means "any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in paste?

paste has 1 syllable: paste. In IPA it is /ˈpeɪst/.

What is another word for paste?

Close synonyms include library paste, spread, glue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is paste a common word?

paste is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with paste?

2 words rhyme with paste. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.