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paste

Pronunciation: /peɪst/

The English word “paste” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
  2. Pastry.
  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.
  5. 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. A hard lead-containing glass; an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
  7. Pasta.
  8. The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

verb

  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.
  3. To strike or beat someone or something.
  4. To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Etymology

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.

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