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paste¹
- /peɪst/
Sounds like paced · Rhymes with -eɪst
Where it comes from
From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus.
noun pastes
- One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- Pastry. And that day month, he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.
- One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
- One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc. Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive
- 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; an artificial gemstone made from this glass. Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.
- Pasta. This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.
- The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
verb pastes · pasting · pasted
- To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
- To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
paste²
- /peɪst/
Sounds like paced · Rhymes with -eɪst
Where it comes from
Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.
verb pastes · pasting · pasted
- To strike or beat someone or something. He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
- To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
paste³
- /ˈpæsteɪ/ UK
- /ˈpɑsteɪ/ US
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).
noun
- plural of pasta
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: library paste, glue, spread, dough, pie, pancake, pasta, sauce, curd, crust, purée, liquor, snag, stick, grease, toothpaste
Translations
Every language
noun a soft mixture
| Español | pasta |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 膏 gāo, 糊 hú |
| हिन्दी | लेपन lepan |
| Français | pâte |
| Deutsch | Paste |
| Italiano | impasto |
| Ελληνικά | πολτός poltós, αλοιφή aloifí |
| Русский | па́ста pásta |
noun soft mixture used in making pastry
| Español | masa |
|---|---|
| Français | pâte |
| Deutsch | Teig |
| Italiano | pasta |
| Русский | те́сто tésto |
noun soft mixture of pounded foods
| Español | paté, budín, pasta |
|---|---|
| Français | pâte |
| Deutsch | Paste, Pastete |
| Ελληνικά | πολτός poltós, αλοιφή aloifí |
| Русский | паште́т paštét |
noun an adhesive paste
| Español | engrudo, cola |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Kleister, Klebstoff, Kitt |
| Italiano | colla |
| Ελληνικά | κόλλα kólla |
| Русский | кле́йстер kléjster, кле́й kléj |
noun lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone thereof
| Español | pasta |
|---|---|
| Português | strass |
| Français | strass, stras |
| Deutsch | Strass |
| Italiano | strass |
| Русский | страз straz |
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