Grout vs Paste - What's the difference?
grout | paste |
A thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry.
Coarse meal; groats.
(typically used in the plural ) Dregs, sediment.
* Charles Dickens
(UK, obsolete) A kind of beer or ale.
To insert mortar between tiles.
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.
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,
(informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
As nouns the difference between grout and paste
is that grout is a thin mortar used to fill the gaps between tiles and cavities in masonry while paste is pie or a similar baked good.As a verb grout
is to insert mortar between tiles.grout
English
Noun
- grouts of tea
Verb
- I spent the whole afternoon grouting the kitchen floor.
paste
English
(wikipedia paste)Noun
Verb
(past)- He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.