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Paste
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- 1 A soft moist mixture, in particular:; One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. countable, uncountable
- 2 plural of pasta form-of, plural, rare
- 3 a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes wordnet
- 4 A soft moist mixture, in particular:; Pastry. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"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."
- 5 an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard wordnet
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- 6 A soft moist mixture, in particular:; One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste. countable, uncountable
- 7 any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency wordnet
- 8 A soft moist mixture, in particular:; One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc. countable, uncountable
"Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive"
- 9 a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry wordnet
- 10 A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid countable, uncountable
- 11 A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass. countable, uncountable
"Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s."
- 12 Pasta. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity."
- 13 The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded. countable, uncountable
- 1 To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. transitive
- 2 To strike or beat someone or something. slang, transitive
"He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth."
- 3 join or attach with or as if with glue wordnet
- 4 To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. transitive
- 5 To defeat decisively or by a large margin. slang, transitive
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- 6 cover the surface of wordnet
- 7 hit with the fists wordnet
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.
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.
Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.
Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).
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