paste is on the Basic English 850 List. past - paste - payment Pronunciation IPA (key): /peɪst/ Audio (US)(file) Noun Singular paste Plural pastes (uncountable) Paste is a thick liquid for sticking (attaching) things together. Paste is like glue, but glue is more liquid and paste is more solid. He mixed flour and water to make a paste for sticking the paper together. Any very thick liquid, almost solid. Tomato paste is good in sauce to put on rice or spaghetti. Verb Plain form paste Third-person singular pastes Past tense pasted Past participle pasted Present participle pasting If you paste something in a computer program, you cut or copy it from one place and put a copy of it somewhere else. To stick things together using paste. She pasted the pictures onto the wall.Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.