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Paste vs. Poi — What's the Difference?

Paste vs. Poi — What's the Difference?

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Paste

A thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid
Blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste

Poi

A Hawaiian food made from the corm of the taro that is cooked, pounded to a paste, and fermented.

Paste

Coat with paste
When coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric

Poi

A traditional Maori performance art in which one swings in each hand a rope with a ball at the end, usually in specific, complex patterns.

Paste

Beat or defeat severely
He pasted the guy and tied his ankles together
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Poi

(Hawaii) The traditional staple food of Hawaii, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

Paste

A smooth viscous mixture, as of flour and water or of starch and water, that is used as an adhesive for joining light materials, such as paper and cloth.

Poi

A creamy Samoan dessert of ripe bananas mashed with coconut cream.

Paste

The moist clay or clay mixture used in making porcelain or pottery. Also called pâte.

Poi

(New Zealand) A small ball made of leaves and fibres, attached to a string.

Paste

A smooth dough of water, flour, and butter or other shortening, used in making pastry.

Poi

(New Zealand) A traditional dance performed by Maori women involving the rhythmic swinging of such a ball.

Paste

A food that has been pounded until it is reduced to a smooth creamy mass
Anchovy paste.

Poi

A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

Paste

A sweet doughy candy or confection
Rolled apricot paste.

Poi

Hawaiian dish of taro root pounded to a paste and often allowed to ferment

Paste

A hard, brilliant, lead-containing glass used in making artificial gems.

Paste

A gem made of this glass. Also called strass.

Paste

A hard blow.

Paste

To cause to adhere by applying paste.

Paste

To cover with something by using paste
He pasted the wall with burlap.

Paste

(Computers) To insert (text, graphics, or other data) into a document or file.

Paste

(Computers) To insert text, graphics, or other data into a document or file.

Paste

To strike forcefully.

Paste

To defeat soundly.

Paste

A soft moist mixture, in particular:

Paste

One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

Paste

(obsolete) Pastry.

Paste

One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

Paste

One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.

Paste

(physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid

Paste

A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

Paste

(obsolete) Pasta.

Paste

(mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Paste

(transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.

Paste

To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

Paste

To strike or beat someone or something.

Paste

To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Paste

A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

Paste

Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.

Paste

A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, - used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., - also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.

Paste

A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.

Paste

A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.

Paste

The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.

Paste

To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

Paste

Any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency

Paste

An adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard

Paste

A tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers

Paste

Join or attach with or as if with glue;
Paste the sign ont the wall
Cut and paste the sentence in the text

Paste

Hit with the fists;
He pasted his opponent

Paste

Cover the surface of;
Paste the wall with burlap

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