Caste vs Paste - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between caste and paste

is that caste is any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies while paste is a soft mixture, in particular.

to stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.

(en noun)

Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.

A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.

* Macaulay

The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste .

* (hereditary class of India) Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

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(wikipedia paste)

A soft mixture, in particular:

# One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.

# One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.

# One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.

(physics) 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.

(obsolete) Pasta.

(mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

(past)

To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.

(computing) To insert a piece of (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.

(informal) To strike or beat someone or something.

* 1943 , , chapter 23,

He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

(informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

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