paste

A soft moist mixture, in particular:

Noun

  1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:

    1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

    2. (obsolete) Pastry.

      • 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...

    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.

      • Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive

      Synonyms: glue adhesive

      Coordinate Terms: cement

  2. 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.
    • Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s. - 2023 March 10, Alex Vadukul, quoting Nan Goldin, “Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
  4. Pasta.
    • This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity. - 1766, Tobias George Smollett, Travels through France and Italy: Containing observations on character,...
    • 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. - 1792, Arnaud Berquin, The...
  5. The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Origin

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.

Forms

pastes

Related

pate pâté patty

Derived

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

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of pasta

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).

Verb slang, transitive

  1. To strike or beat someone or something.
    • He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth. - 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23:
  2. To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Origin

Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.

Forms

pastes pasting pasted

Verb Entry 4

  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.

Forms

pastes pasting pasted

Derived

copy-paste cut and paste mispaste pastable pasteable pastebin pastejacking paster paste up prepaste repaste scissors-and-paste token-pasting operator unpaste unpasted