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paste
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[ noun ] (chemistry) any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency
Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)It is not as convenient as the old type toothbrush and the paste tends to shimmy of the bristles . (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)There is a small well in the top in which the fluid or paste to be tested is placed . A tape of cellulose_acetate is pulled between the blocks and the tape pulls the fluid or paste with it between the parallel faces of the blocks . Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such_as printing_inks , paints , adhesives , molten plastics , and bread_dough , for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '' , `` shortness '' , `` spinnability '' , etc. , which are usually judged by subjective methods at_present . Related terms |
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[ verb ] join or attach with or as if with glue
Synonyms Examples "paste the sign on the wall" "cut and paste the sentence in the text" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)If , in preparing that shot for the inevitable showing to your friends , you interrupt the sequence to paste in a_few frames of the child 's grandmother watching this event , you have begun to be an artist in film ; you are employing the basic technique of film ; you are cutting . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)It was for this reason , and no other that I can see , that in September 1912 , Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper , instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint . Yet the violent immediacy of the wallpaper strips pasted to the paper , and the only lesser immediacy of block_capitals that simulate window lettering , manage somehow to push the grape cluster back into place on the picture_plane so that it does not `` jump '' . The area adjacent to one edge of a piece of affixed material - or simply of a painted in form - will be shaded to pry that edge away from the surface , while something will be drawn , painted or even pasted over another part of the same shape to drive it back into depth . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard
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[ noun ] (food) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers
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