paste
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: pastes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pastes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A soft moist mixture, in particular:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A soft moist mixture, in particular:
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A soft moist mixture, in particular:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A soft moist mixture, in particular:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive
gloss: A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.
gloss: Pasta.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.
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.
gloss: The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
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
prepaste
repaste
scissors-and-paste
token-pasting operator
unpaste
unpasted
Translations:
lang: Assamese
word: লুথুৰী
roman: luthuri
lang: Belarusian
word: па́ста
roman: pásta
lang: Bulgarian
word: па́ста
roman: pásta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 膏
roman: gāo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 糊
roman: hú
lang: West Circassian
word: тхьацу
roman: tḥacʷu
lang: Czech
word: kaše
lang: Czech
word: pasta
lang: Dutch
word: pasta
lang: Finnish
word: massa
lang: French
word: pâte
lang: German
word: Paste
lang: Greek
word: πολτός
roman: poltós
lang: Greek
word: αλοιφή
roman: aloifí
lang: Hungarian
word: paszta
lang: Hungarian
word: krém
lang: Hungarian
word: kenőcs
lang: Ido
word: pasto
lang: Irish
word: taos
lang: Irish
word: leafaos
lang: Italian
word: impasto
lang: Latin
word: intrīta
lang: Old English
word: slyppe
lang: Polish
word: pasta
lang: Russian
word: па́ста
roman: pásta
lang: Spanish
word: pasta
lang: Swedish
word: pasta
lang: Telugu
word: ముద్ద
roman: mudda
lang: Turkish
word: macun
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: معجون
roman: maʼcun
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: خرج
roman: harc
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: خامور
roman: hamur
lang: Ukrainian
word: па́ста
roman: pásta