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a pasting

1. A thorough, resounding defeat. We hadn't been practicing during the off-season at all, so we got quite a pasting in our first game. Look, no one is expecting you to win the match. Just don't let him give you a pasting, all right?

2. An intense physical beating. The bouncer hauled the drunkard out of the bar and gave him a pasting in the back alley. You'd better shut your mouth if you don't want a pasting!

pasting

n. a beating; a defeat in a game. (see also paste.) Our team took quite a pasting last weekend.

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Pasting a link means the destination cell will always be updated when you change the original cell.

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Due to the fact that the sealing cross-section is shifted inwards to the mixing chamber, the pasting takes place in the axial gap between the rotor and the wear plate.

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But then, instead of just pasting it into the new document, click on Edit in the toolbar and then on Paste Special, which brings up this screen:

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Ironically, he called these densely packed constellations of printed matter, which he started making in 1951, simply "Paste-Ups," referring to the childhood activity of making worlds by cutting and pasting at the kitchen table.

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Cutting and pasting paragraphs within HTML is the ideal solution, as it's easy to do and the resulting page looks just like the original.