paste
/peɪst/UK/ˈpæsteɪ/
paste noun: one of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry. Also the plural of pasta.
Noun
paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)
- One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- Pastry.
- 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 ate it all, and picked the bones.1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer
- One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
- One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
- Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive
- 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.
- Yesterday I bought some paste, which is a nickname for fake diamonds, and they were from Bergdorf’s.2023 March 10, Alex Vadukul, quoting Nan Goldin, “Nan Goldin Is Ready for Oscar Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Pasta.
- This is likewise the market for their oil, and the paste called macaroni, of which they make a good quantity.1766, Tobias George Smollett, Travels through France and Italy: Containing observations on character, customs, religion, government, police, commerce, arts, and antiquities. With a particular...
- 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.1792, Arnaud Berquin, The childrens'^([sic]) companion: or, entertaining instructor for the youth of both sexes; designed, to excite attention and inculcate virtue. Selected from the works of...
- The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
Verb (1)
paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)
Verb (2)
paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)
Also used as
paste is also the plural of pasta.
paste meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
paste in Hindi
- a soft mixture
- लेपन lepan
paste in Tamil
- பேஸ்ட் செய்யுங்கள், ஒட்டவும், பேஸ்ட்
paste in Marathi
- पेस्ट करा, पेस्ट करण्यासाठी
paste in Urdu
- پیسٹ کریں, چسپاں کریں, پیسٹ کر دیں
More languagesFewer languages
- paste in Bengali
- পেস্ট করুন, পেষ্ট করুন, পেস্টিং
- paste in Telugu
- ముద్ద mudda
- paste in Malayalam
- പേസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യുക, പേസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യൂ, പേസ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യാൻ
- paste in Kannada
- ಪೇಸ್ಟ್ ಮಾಡಿ, ಅಂಟಿಸಿ, ಅಂಟಿಸುವುದು
- paste in Punjabi
- ਪੇਸਟ ਕਰੋ, ਪੇਸਟ, ਪੇਸਟ ਕਰਨਾ
- paste in Gujarati
- પેસ્ટ કરો, પેસ્ટ, પેસ્ટ કરવા માટે
- paste in Odia
- ପେଷ୍ଟ କରନ୍ତୁ, ପେଷ୍ଟ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ, ପେଷ୍ଟିଂ
- paste in Assamese
- লুথুৰী luthuri
- paste in Nepali
- पेस्ट गर्नुहोस्, चिपकाउनुहोस्
- paste in Arabic
- أَلْصَقَ ʔalṣaqa
- paste in Malay
- pes
- paste in Vietnamese
- dán
Examples of paste in a sentence
- Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
- First copy the files, and then paste them in another directory.
- Mix it until it has the consistency of a thick paste.
Synonyms of paste
Forms of paste
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pastes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | pastes |
| present participle | pasting |
| past participle | pasted |
| past | pasted |
Origin of 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.
Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.
Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).
Words formed from paste
- akiami paste shrimp
- alimentary paste
- almond paste
- anchovy paste
- bean paste
- bloater paste
- cocaine paste
- coca paste
- curry paste
- diamond paste
- fishpaste
- fish paste
- 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
- red bean paste
- shrimp paste
- softpaste
- spackling paste
- stonepaste
- stone paste
- stone-paste
- sugar paste
- thermal paste
- tomato paste
- toothpaste
- Vienna paste
- wheat paste
- copy-paste
- cut and paste
- mispaste
- pastable
- pasteable
- paste away at
- pastebin
Phrases with paste
Words that rhyme with paste
Questions about paste
- What does paste mean?
- Paste means one of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
- What is paste in Hindi?
- Paste in Hindi is लेपन (lepan). See Paste meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is paste?
- Paste can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce paste?
- Paste is pronounced /peɪst/.
- What is the plural of paste?
- The plural of paste is pastes.
Words near paste in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: paste (page history and authors); paste (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); paste (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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