paste
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
A soft moist mixture, in particular
A soft moist mixture, in particular:
A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied,…
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, 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.
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Pasta.
- 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.
The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
To stick with paste
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…
To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
To strike or beat someone or something.
- He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
plural of pasta
The neighborhood
Derived
akiami paste shrimp, alimentary paste, almond paste, anchovy paste, bloater paste, cocaine paste, coca paste, curry paste, diamond paste, fish paste, fishpaste, flour paste, German paste, hardpaste, heat paste, horse paste, huf paste, impaste, Italian paste, library paste, London paste, paprika paste, pasteboard, paste bomb, pastedown, paste egg, paste-horn, pasteless, pastelike, pastepot, paste soap, pasteup, paste-wash, peanut paste, phosphorous paste, phosphorus paste, pouf paste, puff paste, razor paste, shrimp paste · +26 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at paste. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at paste. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at paste
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA