to paste
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2.9
- verb
- /peɪst/
:
pegar
- 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
No Googling, no copy pasting, just instant discounts.
- No Googling, no copy pasting, just instant discounts.
- 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?
Fiction book (1996) -
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
989
1.7
Place something inside another thing or space
75
1.0
To join things using a sticky substance
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4.5
Attach posters or papers to a wall using glue
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
6
1.5
A thick, concentrated food made from cooked tomatoes used to add a strong tomato flavour
- Specialized
A dough of flour, butter, and water that makes light, flaky layers when baked
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.