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pasteSee cut and paste. paste 1. a mixture or material of a soft or malleable consistency, such as toothpaste 2. the combined ingredients of porcelain paste [pāst] (electricity) In batteries, the medium in the form of a paste or jelly, containing an electrolyte; it is positioned adjacent to the negative electrode of a dry cell; in an electrolytic cell, the paste serves as one of the conducting plates. (materials) An adhesive mixture with a characteristic plastic consistency, a high order of yield value, and a low bond strength; for example, a paste prepared by heating a starch and water mixture, then cooling the hydrolyzed product. (metallurgy) Finely divided particles of ferromagnetic material in paste form used in the wet method of magnetic particle inspection.
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the face of the Scarecrow and many portions of his body bore great blotches of putz-pomade; for the Tin Woodman, in his eagerness to welcome his friend, had quite forgotten the condition of his toilet and had rubbed the thick coating of paste from his own body to that of his comrade. There remains to-day but a very imperceptible vestige of the Place de Grève, such as it existed then; it consists in the charming little turret, which occupies the angle north of the Place, and which, already enshrouded in the ignoble plaster which fills with paste the delicate lines of its sculpture, would soon have disappeared, perhaps submerged by that flood of new houses which so rapidly devours all the ancient façades of Paris. When she took the paste out to bake it, she left smears of dough sticking to the sides of the measure, put the measure on the shelf behind the stove, and let this residue ferment. |
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