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paste | American Dictionary

paste
noun[ U ]
us/peɪst/
a thick, wet substance used for sticking things together, or any soft, wet mixture of powder and liquid:
Use paste, glue, or tape to attach the pictures.
tomato paste
paste
verb[ Talways+ adv/prep ]
us/peɪst/
to stick something to something else:
She pasted a heart onto the valentine.

paste | Business English

paste
verb[ I or T ]
 ITuk /peɪst/us
to move text or pictures to a particular place in a computer document:
copy/cut and pasteHe had simply copied and pasted the numbers directly from the memo.

Examples of paste

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From another point of view, the problem here is caused by the presence of identities (that is, empty pasting diagrams).
The proof is a routine diagram paste based on the definitions.
Compression to reverse the venous hypertension is useful and can be either with paste bandages or elastic stockings.
Slight variations in resource procurement and / or paste preparation may be inferred to have caused them to diverge from the reference-group profiles.
The inclusions in pastes are best studied by petrography with a polarizing microscope.
There is a further subtlety concerning hashes that might be pasted into version expressions and constraints by the programmer.
More complex expressions get created by gestures such as copy, paste, and fill.
For oviposition, a spoon with 2 ml of medium and coated with live yeast paste was placed in each vial.
This is achieved using familiar copy/paste operations on text spans.
Bits and pieces of genetic material are snipped out, some discarded, other bits pasted together with the aid of still other molecules.
At the same time, this chemical differentiation may be explained by variations in paste recipes reflecting differing functions and /or consumer markets for these vessels.
In fact, the exhibit was a fairly crude paste-up, in which fragments of different fingerprints had been collaged.
For example, consider the task of applying solder paste, shown at level 2 of the process template.
All the pots are produced with the same clay, paste preparation, and glaze.
The analysis revealed a similarity in clay composition for all samples, except for the crisoles, which are made with a finer and more compact paste.
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