Paste vs Pate - What's the difference?
paste | pate |
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.
(somewhat, archaic) The head, particularly the top or crown.
(archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
* 1598 , , by Shakespeare
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
(finely-ground paste of meat, fish, etc.)
The interior body, or non-rind portion of cheese, described by its texture, density, and color.
Pate is a descendant of paste.
As nouns the difference between paste and pate
is that paste is a soft mixture, in particular while pate is the head, particularly the top or crown.As a verb paste
is to stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.paste
English
(wikipedia paste)Noun
Verb
(past)- He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.
Anagrams
* ----pate
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (attested since around 1200), perhaps a shortened form of (etyl) patene'' or .Noun
(en noun)- He had a shiny, bald pate .
- I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast:
- The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:
- Fat paunches have lean pates , and dainty bits
- Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
- I thank thee for that jest: here's a garment
- for't: wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of
- this country: 'Steal by line and level,' is an excellent
- pass of pate : there's another garment for't.