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Paste vs Copypasta - What's the difference?

paste | copypasta |

As nouns the difference between paste and copypasta

is that paste is a soft mixture, in particular while copypasta is a block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else.

As verbs the difference between paste and copypasta

is that paste is to stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste while copypasta is to copy and paste data from one website to another, usually text.

paste

English

(wikipedia paste)

Noun

  • A soft mixture, in particular:
  • # One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
  • # One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
  • # One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
  • (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
  • A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
  • (obsolete) Pasta.
  • (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

    • Verb

    (past)
  • To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
  • (computing) To insert a piece of (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
  • (informal) To strike or beat someone or something.
  • * 1943 , , chapter 23,
    • He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
  • (informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

    • Anagrams

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    copypasta

    English

    Noun

  • (Internet slang) A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else.
  • *{{quote-web
    • , date = 2006-02-02 , author = Anonymous , title = GIKOPE COPYPASTA AND AA ARCHIEVE: , site =4chan , url = http://dis.4chan.org/read/sjis/1139940274 , accessdate = 2013-09-10 , passage=Gikope is a really useful program for keeping up with AA and copypasta'. I've rapidshared my own achieve, which includes 1000s of AAs and a large collection of ' copypasta . }}
  • *{{quote-web
    • , date = 2006-06-07 , author = Anonymous Addict , title = 4chan is broken again , site =Channel 4 BBS , url = http://wayback.archive.org/web/20070718064357/http://4-ch.net/iaa/kareha.pl/1131995069/ , accessdate = 2013-09-10 , passage=Our Father, who art in 4chan, Anonymous be thy name. Thy sage come, thy will be done on Gaia as it is in 4chan. Give us this day our copypasta , And forgive us our COMBO BREAKERs, as we forgive those who COMBO BREAK against us And lead us not into CP, but deliver us from Piro. For thine is the sandwich, and the win, and the awesome forever and ever. I guarantee it. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=2008, date=January 6, author=Cory Albrecht, title=Re: A treatise on how one willfully becomes an atheist , newsgroup=talk.origins citation
    • , passage=On the other paw, his further responses are generally rehashings (though not copypastas ) of his original screed. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=2009, date=March 4, author="Quaoar", title= Re: ARS is dead. Long live the trolls! , newsgroup=alt.religion.scientology citation
    • , passage=Almost everything posted on ARS [alt.religion.scientology] is copypasta from the original posted sources, i.e., web forums. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=2009, date=April 27, author=R. Hill, title=St. Petersburg Times' _Man behind the religion_ 'copypasta' serves David Miscavige's agenda, newsgroup=alt.religion.scientology citation
    • , passage=It's essentially a (sort of) copypasta of *only the first page* of an article published in the St. Petersburg Times
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010, date=November 12, title=Bored at Work? Try Creepypasta, or Web Scares, work=The New York Times citation
    • , passage=Mike Rugnetta

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Internet slang) To copy and paste data from one website to another, usually text.
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=, date=, author=, title=, newsgroup=, url=
    • , passage=}}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=2008, date=March 3, author=Rudy Canoza, title=Re: Meat is a prominent part of chimpanzee diet; pre-human hominids ate meat for 2.25 million years (biologically adapted to meat), newsgroup=alt.food.vegan citation
    • , passage=You didn't read the paper. You dully copypastaed the abstract. The abstract is not the paper.}}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup, year=2009, date=September 7, author="Voltaire's Child", title=Re: Assuming it is all true.. , newsgroup=alt.religion.scientology citation
    • , passage=He probably meant what Bob Minton used to talk about in the post he used to copypasta and repost all the time