# pasting

Pronunciation: US say "PAY-sting" /ˈpeɪstɪŋ/; AUS say "PAYS-ting" /ˈpeɪstɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of paste. — present participle and gerund of paste
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of paste. Use it after is, are, or was, or to name the action itself.
   - _She spent the afternoon copying and pasting figures from one spreadsheet into another._
   - _By the sixth inning, the Yankees were pasting the Red Sox 11 to 2._

## Noun

2. The act of spreading paste on something, or of fixing something in place with paste.
   - Simple: The act of putting paste on something, or of sticking something on with paste.
   - _After the pasting, the collage had to dry flat under a stack of heavy books._
   - _The pasting of handbills on utility poles is against city rules._
3. A defeat, or a physical beating. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A time when a person or team loses, or when someone gets beaten in a fight.
   - _The governor's party took a pasting in the midterm elections._
   - _The champion gave the challenger such a pasting that the referee stopped the fight early._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/pasting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).