paste
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
paste/peɪst/
▶noun
- 1 a thick, soft, moist substance, typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid.
■ a savoury spread: salmon paste.
- 2 a thick, soft, moist adhesive.
- 3 a mixture of kaolin and water of low plasticity, used for making porcelain.
- 4 a hard vitreous composition used in making imitation gems.
- 1 coat or stick with paste.
- 2 Computing insert (a section of text) into a document.
- 3 (often as noun pasting) informal beat or defeat severely.
– origin ME: from OFr., from late L. pasta ‘medicinal preparation in the shape of a small square’, prob. from Gk pastē, (pl.) pasta ‘barley porridge’, from pastos ‘sprinkled’.
'paste' also found in these Oxford entries:
almond paste
- barbola
- blacking
- buckram
- cream
- Crown Derby
- cut
- dentifrice
- dry cell
- fondant
- frangipane
- frit
- grout
- hang
- hard-paste
- harissa
- impasto
- levigate
- liver sausage
- loam
- marzipan
- masala
- Meissen
- miso
- mud pack
- mustard
- noodle
- oil paint
- Parian
- passata
- pasta
- pastel
- paste-up
- pastiche
- pastille
- pastry
- pasty
- pasty
- pâte
- pâté
- pâté de foie gras
- pemmican
- pistou
- polenta
- porcelain
- pound
- putty
- reflow
- rottenstone
