paste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
homophone: paced
Forms: form: pastes
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-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.
Senses: glosses: A soft moist mixture, in particular:
One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer:
glosses: A soft moist mixture, in particular:
Pastry.
glosses: A soft moist mixture, in particular:
One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
examples: Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive
glosses: A soft moist mixture, in particular:
One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
coordinate_terms: cement#Noun
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
examples: text: Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.
ref: 2023 March 10, Alex Vadukul, quoting Nan Goldin, “Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
examples: text: This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.
ref: 1766, Tobias George Smollett, Travels through France and Italy: Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, A register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city, Volume 2 (travel), page 35:
text: Vermicelli for soups, is paste from Italy; so called because it looks like worms. My macaroni, paste from Italy—My salop, a root ground to powder—the root of one kind of orchis.
ref: 1792, Arnaud Berquin, The childrens'^([sic]) companion: or, entertaining instructor for the youth of both sexes; designed, to excite attention and inculcate virtue. Selected from the works of Berquin, Genlis, Day, and others^(http://books.google.com/books?id=iysCAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22paste%22+Italy+(%22macaroni%22+OR+%22maccheroni%22+OR+%22spaghetti%22)&source=gbs_navlinks_s), page 75:
glosses: Pasta.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
Derived terms: akiami paste shrimp
alimentary paste
almond paste
anchovy paste
bloater paste
cocaine paste
coca paste
curry paste
diamond paste
fishpaste
fish 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
Related terms: pate
pâté
patty