paste

Inflections of 'paste' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

paste n., v., past•ed, past•ing.
n. [uncountable]

a mixture of flour and water, used for causing material to stick to something:The kids put paste on the cardboard pieces and stuck them together.
Fooddough, esp. when prepared with shortening.
Fooda soft mixture of crushed food and a liquid that can be spread on food and eaten:almond paste.
Ceramicsany mixture of some powdery substance, as clay, with a liquid:paste for making pottery.

v. [~ + object]

paste n., v., past•ed, past•ing.
n.

a mixture of flour and water, often with starch or the like, used for causing paper or other material to adhere to something.
any soft, smooth, and plastic material or preparation.
Fooddough, esp. when prepared with shortening, as for making pie crust and other pastry:puff paste.
Foodany of various semisoft fruit confections of pliable consistency:almond paste; guava paste.
Fooda preparation of fish, tomatoes, or other food reduced to a smooth, soft mass, as for a relish or for seasoning.
Foodpasta.
Ceramicsa mixture of clay, water, etc., for making pottery or porcelain.
Jewelry
- Jewelrya brilliant, heavy glass, as strass, used for making artificial gems.
- Jewelryan artificial gem of this material.
[Slang.]a hard smack, blow, or punch, esp. on the face.

v.t.

Greek pastá barley porridge, noun, nominal use of neuter plural of pastós, verbid of pássein to strew, sprinkle; a pasta was origin, originally a kind of gruel sprinkled with salt; (defs. 9, 12) probably by association with baste³
Late Latin pasta dough
Middle French
Middle English 1350–1400

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

paste /peɪst/ n

a mixture or material of a soft or malleable consistency, such as toothpaste
an adhesive made from water and flour or starch, used esp for joining pieces of paper
a preparation of food, such as meat, that has been powdered to a creamy mass, for spreading on bread, crackers, etc
any of various sweet doughy confections: almond paste
dough, esp when prepared with shortening, as for making pastry
- Also called: strass a hard shiny glass used for making imitation gems
- an imitation gem made of this glass
the combined ingredients of porcelain See also hard paste, soft paste

vb (transitive)

often followed by on or onto: to attach by or as if by using paste: we pasted posters onto the wall
(usually followed by with) to cover (a surface) with paper, usually attached with an adhesive: we pasted the wall with posters

Etymology: 14th Century: via Old French from Late Latin pasta dough, from Greek pastē barley porridge, from pastos, from passein to sprinkle

'paste' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

Collocations: mash the [peas, ginger] into a paste, mix the [powder, cocoa] into a paste, [tomato, almond, puff, salmon] paste, more...

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