English Explanatory Dictionary

paste

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:
  2. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
  3. Pastry.
  4. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
  5. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
  6. A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
  7. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
  8. Pasta.
  9. The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
verb
  1. To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
  2. To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
verb
  1. To strike or beat someone or something.
  2. To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
noun
  1. plural of pasta

Pronunciation

/peɪst/ en-us-paste.ogg /ˈpæsteɪ/ /ˈpɑsteɪ/

Word forms

paste pastes pasting pasted

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste 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.

Synonyms

glue adhesive

Related words

pate pâté patty

Derived words

akiami paste shrimp alimentary paste almond paste anchovy paste bloater paste cocaine paste coca paste curry paste diamond paste fish paste fishpaste flour paste German paste hardpaste heat paste horse paste huf paste impaste Italian paste library paste London paste paprika paste pasteboard paste bomb pastedown paste egg paste-horn pasteless pastelike pastepot paste soap pasteup paste-wash peanut paste phosphorous paste phosphorus paste pouf paste puff paste razor paste shrimp paste softpaste spackling paste stonepaste stone-paste stone paste sugar paste thermal paste tomato paste toothpaste Vienna paste wheat paste copy-paste cut and paste mispaste pastable pasteable pastebin pastejacking paster paste up

Translations

Assamese: লুথুৰী Belarusian: па́ста Bulgarian: па́ста Chinese Mandarin: 膏 Chinese Mandarin: 糊 West Circassian: тхьацу Czech: kaše Czech: pasta Dutch: pasta Finnish: massa French: pâte German: Paste Greek: πολτός Greek: αλοιφή Hungarian: paszta Hungarian: krém Hungarian: kenőcs Ido: pasto Irish: taos Irish: leafaos Italian: impasto Latin: intrīta Old English: slyppe Polish: pasta Russian: па́ста Spanish: pasta Swedish: pasta Telugu: ముద్ద Turkish: macun Ottoman Turkish: معجون Ottoman Turkish: خرج Ottoman Turkish: خامور Ukrainian: па́ста
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