Paste is a term for any very thick viscous fluid. It may refer to:

Science and technology

  • Adhesive or paste
  • Wallpaper paste
  • Wheatpaste, a liquid adhesive made from vegetable starch and water
  • Paste (rheology), a substance that behaves as a solid and a liquid depending on applied load
  • Paste gem, a diamond simulant made from rock crystal, glass, or acrylic

Computing

  • Paste (Unix), a Unix command line utility which is used to join files horizontally
  • Paste, a presentation program designed by FiftyThree
  • Cut, copy, and paste, related commands that offer a UI interaction technique for digital transfer from a source to a destination
  • Python Paste, a set of utilities for web development in Python

Arts, entertainment and media

  • Paste (magazine), a monthly music and entertainment digital magazine
  • "Paste" (story), a 5,800-word short story by Henry James
  • Paste paper, a type of surface-decoration used in bookbinding and other decorative arts

Food

  • Paste (food), a semi-liquid colloidal suspension, emulsion, or aggregation used in food preparation
  • Purée, a food paste made with cooked ingredients
  • Spread (food), a ready-to-eat food paste
  • Paste (pasty), a small pastry produced in Mexico
  • Paste, in the cuisine of Guinea, a savory pastry

See also

  • Cut and paste (disambiguation)
  • Paaste, a village in Estonia