/peɪst/
OriginProbably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.
- countable, uncountableOne of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- countable, obsolete, uncountablePastry.
“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 ”
- countable, uncountableOne of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
- countable, uncountableOne used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
“Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive”
- countable, uncountableA substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
- countable, uncountableA 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.”
- countable, obsolete, uncountablePasta.
“This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.”
“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.”
- countable, uncountableThe mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
- form-of, plural, rareplural of pasta
- transitiveTo stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
- transitiveTo insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
- slang, transitiveTo strike or beat someone or something.
“He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.”
- slang, transitiveTo defeat decisively or by a large margin.
Formspastes(plural) · pastes(present, singular, third-person) · pasting(participle, present) · pasted(participle, past) · pasted(past)