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Webster 1913 Edition


Paste

Paste

(pāst)
,
Noun.
[OF.
paste
, F.
pâte
, L.
pasta
, fr. Gr. [GREEK] barley broth; cf. [GREEK] barley porridge, [GREEK] sprinkled with salt, [GREEK] to sprinkle. Cf.
Pasty
,
Noun.
,
Patty
.]
1.
A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter’s ware.
2.
Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
3.
A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, – used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., – also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.
4.
A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See
Strass
.
5.
A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
6.
(Min.)
The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
Paste eel
(Zool.)
,
the vinegar eel. See under
Vinegar
.

Paste

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pasted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pasting
.]
To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.

Webster 1828 Edition


Paste

PASTE

,
Noun.
[L. pistus, or Gr. to sprinkle, or some root which signifies to mix and knead.]
1.
A soft composition of substances, as flour moistened with water or milk and kneaded, or any kind of earth moistened and formed to the consistence of dough. Paste made of flour is used in cookery; paste made of flour or earth, is used in various arts and manufactures, as a cement.
2.
An artificial mixture in imitation of precious stones or gems, used in the glass trade.
3.
In mineralogy, the mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.

PASTE

,
Verb.
T.
To unite or cement with paste; to fasten with paste.

Definition 2024


Paste

Paste

See also: paste, pasté, paște, and Paște

German

Noun

Paste f (genitive Paste, plural Pasten)

  1. paste (a soft mixture)

Declension

paste

paste

See also: Paste, pasté, paște, and Paște

English

Noun

paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

  1. A soft mixture, in particular:
    1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
    2. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
    3. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
  2. (physics) 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.
  4. (obsolete) Pasta.
    Tobias George Smollett (1766) Travels through France and Italy: Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular description of the town, territory, and climate of Nice. To which is added, A register of the weather, kept during a residence of eighteen months in that city, Volume 2 (travel), page 35: “This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.”
    Arnaud Berquin (1792) The childrens' companion: or, entertaining instructor for the youth of both sexes; designed, to excite attention and inculcate virtue. Selected from the works of Berquin, Genlis, Day, and others, page 75 of 346: “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.”
  5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Translations

Verb

paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

  1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
  2. (intransitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
  3. (transitive, informal) To strike or beat someone or something.
  4. (transitive, informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

paste

  1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of passen

Italian

Noun

paste f pl

  1. plural of pasta

Anagrams


Latin

Participle

paste

  1. vocative masculine singular of pastus

Old French

Noun

paste m (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)

  1. dough; paste
  2. pastry

Descendants

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Portuguese

Verb

paste

  1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pastar
  2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pastar
  3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pastar
  4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pastar

Spanish

paste from Mexico City

Noun

paste m (plural pastes)

  1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)
  2. loofah (plant in the Luffa genus)

Verb

paste

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pastar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pastar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pastar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of pastar.