Meaning

8 senses
  1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:

    (countable, uncountable)One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

    an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard

  2. (countable, uncountable)One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

    Paste, Pastete

    паште́тpaštét

    паште́тpaštét

  3. (countable, uncountable)One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.

    Near-synonyms: glue, adhesive

    Kleister, Klebstoff, Kitt

    кле́йстерkléjster, кле́йkléj

  4. (countable, uncountable)A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid.

  5. (countable, uncountable)A hard lead-containing glass; an artificial gemstone made from this glass.

    Strass

    стразstraz

    a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry

  6. (countable, uncountable)The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

  7. A soft moist mixture, in particular:

    (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Pastry.

    Teig

    те́стоtésto

  8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Pasta.

Examples

57 sentences
  1. He pasted the notice on the door.

    ruОн приклеил объявление на дверь.

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  2. Add the tomato paste and a bay leaf.

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  3. I stuck two sheets of paper together with paste.

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  4. Has anyone seen the paste?

    ruКто-нибудь видел клей?

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  5. Paste this in your scrapbook.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
a soft mixture:
soft mixture of pounded foods:
Русский
By meaning 5
a soft mixture:
soft mixture used in making pastry:
soft mixture of pounded foods:
an adhesive paste:
lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone thereof:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
a soft mixture:
soft mixture used in making pastry:
soft mixture of pounded foods:
an adhesive paste:
lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone thereof:

Origin

From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, fro

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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Forms

plural: pastes
Singularpaste
Pluralpastes

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard:library paste
  • a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes:spread

Word family

46 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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