| 单词 | paste |
| 释义 | paste (once / 591 pages) 1nv 2n 3v Paste is like glue. If you paste something, you stick it onto something else. You might copy and paste info from one document to another on your computer, or literally paste posters all over town. Just don’t use tomato paste. Some foods take the form of a paste, like cake frosting or pâté. There's also the kind of paste you can use for gluing paper — like wallpaper paste, for example. Costume jewelry, which resembles gemstones but is relatively inexpensive, is made from another, harder kind of paste. To paste something is to stick it together, to patch it, or to cover it with paper. The Late Latin root is pasta, or "dough." WORD FAMILYpaste: pasted, pastelike, paster, pastes, pasting, pasty+/paster: pasters/pasty: pastier, pasties, pastily USAGE EXAMPLESThe Jack Russell was sedated and vets spent 45 minutes removing the "rock hard" paste encasing the dog's teeth. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) A southern town famous for traditional red pepper paste is spelled “Sunchang.” Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Finally add the oil and the top note and blitz to an even, finely textured paste. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard Syn|Hypo|Hyper library paste wafer a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters adhesive, adhesive agent, adhesive material a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together 2n any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency Hyper composition a mixture of ingredients 3n a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes Syn|Hypo|Hyper spread margarin, margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter nut butterground nuts blended with a little butter peanut buttera spread made from ground peanuts marshmallow fluffa very sweet white spread resembling marshmallow candy onion butterbutter blended with minced onion pimento butterbutter blended with mashed pimento shrimp butterbutter blended with chopped shrimp or seasoned with essence from shrimp shells lobster butterbutter blended with chopped lobster or seasoned with essence from lobster shells cheese spreadspread made of cheese mixed with butter or cream or cream cheese and seasonings anchovy butterbutter blended with mashed anchovies fishpastea paste of fish or shellfish garlic butterbutter seasoned with mashed garlic misoa thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces hommos, hoummos, hummus, humous, humusa thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East pateliver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned tapenadea spread consisting of capers and black olives and anchovies made into a puree with olive oil tahinia thick Middle Eastern paste made from ground sesame seeds sticka rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine duck patea pate made from duck liver foie gras, pate de foie grasa pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles condiment a preparation (a sauce or relish or spice) to enhance flavor or enjoyment 4v join or attach with or as if with glue paste the sign on the wall cut and paste the sentence in the text Syn|Hypo|Hyper glue epoxy glue with epoxy attach cause to be attached 5v cover the surface of 2paste the wall with burlap Hyper cover provide with a covering or cause to be covered n a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry 3Hyper lead glass glass containing lead oxide; has a high refractive index v hit with the fists He pasted his opponent Hyper beat hit repeatedly |
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