Paste vs Passe - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between paste and passe

is that paste is a soft mixture, in particular while passé is an attack that passes the target without hitting.

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

dated; out of style; old-fashioned.

(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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(en adjective)

(colloquial) dated; out of style; old-fashioned

* We'll paint the town blue 'cause, baby, red is so passé. - The Pierces

* I never thought you'd be a junkie, because heroin is so passé. - The Dandy Warhols

Past one's prime; worn; faded.

As in French, is sometimes used for the feminine: "a passée belle".

(en noun)

(fencing) An attack that passes the target without hitting.