to paste
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2.9
- verb
- /peɪst/
- You can easily paste the copied text into your email by right-clicking and selecting 'paste.'
- copy and paste
- cut and paste
- paste the text
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- Simple, copy and paste the facts, let ChatGPT do the rest.
- All you got to do copy, paste, send you with me.
- And you can tear that out just like you can copy and paste from Stack Overflow that.
- All right, so let's go ahead and copy and paste that right there.
Examples
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Could I ask you, please, to paste your paintings into my book?
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OK, So what I would do is I would copy and paste this whole thing.
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OK, now you need to go ahead and paste that code in.
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I thought you might like to paste them into your book.
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Did you just copy and paste them?
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Your job is to show up on time and paste these little pictures in place.
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Will you help me paste them in?
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So I'm just going to paste that thing we had before.
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Does anyone here know how to paste an Instagram photo into a document?
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Once the cards are designed, the images can be copied and pasted over into Smart Notebook.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
∞
1.7
Place something inside another thing or space
83
1.0
To join things using a sticky substance
2
4.5
Attach posters or papers to a wall using glue
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
8
1.5
A thick, concentrated food made from cooked tomatoes used to add a strong tomato flavour
- Specialized
1
4.9
A dough of flour, butter, and water that makes light, flaky layers when baked
1
4.9
A food made from flour and water shaped into pieces like spaghetti or macaroni
How Automatic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb paste comes from the idea of using a sticky paste to 'stick' things together, and computers borrowed that image to mean putting copied text or images into a new place.