paste

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A soft moist mixture, in particular:
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A soft moist mixture, in particular:
3. (countable, uncountable) A soft moist mixture, in particular:
4. (countable, uncountable) A soft moist mixture, in particular:
5. (countable, uncountable) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
6. (countable, uncountable) A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Pasta.
8. (countable, uncountable) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Verb

1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
2. (transitive) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

Verb

1. (slang, transitive) To strike or beat someone or something.
2. (slang, transitive) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

pasta

1. (uncountable) Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) Dough made from wheat and water and sometimes mixed with egg and formed into various shapes; often sold in dried form and typically boiled for eating.
3. (uncountable) A dish or serving of pasta.
4. (countable) A type of pasta.
5. (Philippines, uncountable) Dental filling.

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Synonyms

glue

stick

affix

dough

spread

gum

plaster

attach

ointment

starch

adhesive

apply

mucilage

size

library paste

stick on

pasting

cement

gum up

pastry

fasten

goo

pâté

beat

append

strass

butter

🧈

toothpaste

stick to

sticky

cream

thrash

poultice

place

put onto

assign

paste up

placard

🪧

seal

🦭

mash

mass

gruel

dope

add

post

post up

cap

canopy

cake

🍰

buttermilk

Translations

pâte

coller

pasta

pegar

kleben

incollare

pasta

Paste

colla

Kleister

colar

colle

plakken

enganxar

deeg

Pronounced as (IPA)

/peɪst/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: paste

In summary

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.

Sentences

The walls were covered with a thick paste .