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单词 unpaste
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unpastev.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈpeɪst/, U.S. /ˌənˈpeɪst/
Forms: see un- prefix2 and paste v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix2, paste v.
Etymology: < un- prefix2 + paste v.With use in quot. 1598, compare discussion at un- prefix2 1b(a).
transitive. To remove the paste from (in various senses of paste n.); esp. to cause (a piece of paper) to become unstuck by removing the adhesive keeping it in place. Also intransitive.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of other specific covering
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Spastare, to vnpaste, to take away the paste or crust of any thing.
1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling i. 9 Spent each day..in dressing, painting,..and three hours more at Night in unpasting and undressing again.
1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 111 By Mouth-Glew, or Pasting, I fix them in a sheet of Paper, which makes the Map or Figure of the whole Incamping; and may forthwith be unpasted, or unglew'd by the Quartermaster General, and distributed accordingly.
1772 J. Fenn Let. 23 Nov. in J. Granger Lett. (1805) 110 Till I had unpasted the different lengths, I was uncertain whether it was a print or drawing.
1856 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 3 153 The fire-ball rises, and takes its departure through a hole above the fireplace, carefully unpasting the paper with which it is covered without tearing it.
1883 J. Wordsworth Gospel St. Matthew p. xxxi He very kindly put himself to the further trouble of unpasting the slip from the binding of the book.
1922 Bookman's Jrnl. & Print Collector 5 122 This..was only fully revealed when a flyleaf was recently unpasted and found to bear the inscription [etc.].
1998 A. Okamoto-MacPhail in M. Heussler Pictured Word 275 For the sake of conservation, paintings and calligraphied texts have been separated by unpasting the paper joints.
2013 J. Gaultier & R. Ludlow Chicken Health for Dummies ix. 128 (heading) Unpasting a pasty vent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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