paste

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See also: Paste, pasté, pastę, paște, and Paște

English

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Etymology

From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta). Doublet of pasta and patty.

Pronunciation

Noun

paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

  1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:
    1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
    2. (obsolete) Pastry.
      • 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer
        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.
    3. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
    4. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
  2. (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
  3. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
  4. (obsolete) Pasta.
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  5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Cebuano: pasta

Translations

Verb

paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

  1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
  2. (transitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
  3. (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.
  4. (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Derived terms

Translations

to insert a piece of text

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

Verb

paste

  1. second-person plural imperative of pást

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

paste

  1. (deprecated template usage) singular past indicative and subjunctive of passen

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.ste/
  • Rhymes: -aste
  • Hyphenation: pà‧ste

Noun

paste f pl

  1. plural of pasta

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Participle

(deprecated template usage) pāste

  1. vocative masculine singular of pāstus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”)

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek πάστα (pásta).

Noun

paste oblique singular, m (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)

  1. dough; paste
  2. pastry

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Portuguese

Verb

paste

  1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

Spanish

paste from Mexico City

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaste/ [ˈpas.t̪e]
  • Hyphenation: pas‧te

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

paste m (plural pastes)

  1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)
  2. loofah (plant in the Luffa genus)
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

paste

  1. inflection of pastar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

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