to paste up
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4.5
- phrasal verb
- /peɪst ʌp/
:
pegar
- She pasted up the new schedule on the bulletin board for everyone to see.
- paste up posters
And then I think it was Jim Buckley, who he was talking to, stuck his head in my office and said, you want to paste up a magazine?
- And then I think it was Jim Buckley, who he was talking to, stuck his head in my office and said, you want to paste up a magazine?
Examples
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Copies of this flyer had been pasted up in every store in Jasmine, in every little town for forty miles.
Fiction book (1992) -
And then I think it was Jim Buckley, who he was talking to, stuck his head in my office and said, you want to paste up a magazine?
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I got me a notice to paste up.
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And we literally pasted up everything that appeared in print.
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Students themselves produced and pasted up their own posters on the walls and light posts to announce school events.
Academic text (1990) -
An old tenement house; all the upper floors were empty now, lifeless and petrified, just waiting for Dublin Corporation to paste up the posters proclaiming the house.
Fiction book (2000) -
Paraguayan parties and their followers are involved in this process in Argentina; they produce graffiti and paste up posters centered around the idea of democratizing Paraguay.
Academic text (1990) -
Although we might not expect a crowd to form and be transfixed by the seemingly mundane act of pasting up a printed poster, the Tribune reporter described a strikingly similar scene when he tagged along on a trip with a crew of Chicago bill posters.
Academic text (2011) -
Another memo, dated the next day, went out from Lewis Jordan, one of the editors Rosenthal sent the first memo to, but addressed to all of the paper's news desks, as well as the editors of the news summary and index and to the composing room, where the paper's layouts were pasted up.
Academic text (2017) -
The sketch also contains an intriguing visual repetition, in that the bill poster seems to be doubled by the right-hand figure in the bill he's pasting up, both of them wearing similar hats and positioned with virtually the same outstretched left arm.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
769
1.0
To attach something to a surface or push it into with a point
169
1.3
To attach things using a sticky strip
58
2.9
To join things by sticking them together or into a document
54
2.4
Place a sign or notice so people can see it
50
1.8
To make someone stay in one place or keep their attention on something
41
1.8
Stay attached to a surface
34
1.7
To add something to a building to make it larger
25
2.7
Put something on a surface so it stays in place
19
1.0
To fasten things together using a small metal or plastic device
18
5.0
To attach something to another thing by sticking or fastening it
4
3.6
To attach something to a wall or board with a pin
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3.1
To stick things or paper to a surface using clear sticky tape
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5.4
To fasten something to a surface with a small nail or pin
To attach a thin decorative piece to the surface of something
How Firmly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to attach or display on a surface' is directly compositional from 'paste' (to affix) plus the particle 'up' (on/onto or completion), so the overall sense is predictable from the constituents. This follows a common English phrasal-verb pattern (verb + up indicating placement or completion) that a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer.
Etymology
The phrasal verb paste up comes from the simple action of using paste (glue) to stick posters or paper up on a wall or board. So it means 'to attach or display' something on a surface.