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the verb that lets you steal genius with a keystroke and call it research
means To insert previously copied or cut text, images, or data into a document or field — or, in the older sense, to stick something using a soft adhesive.
from From the Latin 'pasta,' meaning a small square of dough or a paste — the very same root that gives us pasta on the dinner plate. It traveled through Late Latin and Old French ('paste') into Middle English, naming any soft, sticky, mouldable substance, including the flour-and-water glue used to fix paper to paper. When computing borrowed the word in the late 20th century, it kept that gluey spirit: 'copy and paste' literally pictures you sticking a clipping somewhere new, just without the mess.
- keyboard combo
- Ctrl+V because V sits beside the cut and copy keys
- old tech
- named after literal flour-and-water glue for paper
- fake diamonds
- paste also means cut glass faking gemstones
- clipboard limit
- most systems hold only one paste at a time
- culinary cousin
- tomato, almond, and curry pastes share the gluey name
paste magazine — american music and culture publication founded in 1997
paste tomato — roma tomato variety used in san marzano sauce production, italy