paste.
A soft moist mixture, in particular:
Meaning & usage
A soft moist mixture, in particular: One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
A soft moist mixture, in particular: Pastry.
A soft moist mixture, in particular: One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
A soft moist mixture, in particular: One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid.
A hard lead-containing glass; an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
Pasta.
The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
Where this word comes from
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.
To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
Where this word comes from
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.
To strike or beat someone or something.
To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
Where this word comes from
Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.
plural of pasta
Where this word comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).
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