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Salve vs Paste - What's the difference?

salve | paste |

As a verb salve

is .

As a noun paste is

pie or a similar baked good.

salve

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sealf, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
  • Any thing or action that soothes or heals.
  • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Verb

    (salv)
  • To calm or assuage.
  • To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  • * Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV :
  • I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
  • To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  • * Spenser
  • But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.
  • * Milton
  • What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?
  • To salvage.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (salv)
  • (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
  • (obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
  • * 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems
  • He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
  • (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse
  • References

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    Etymology 3

    (etyl) (lena)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • hail; a greeting
  • Verb

    (salv)
  • To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.
  • * Spenser
  • By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.

    Anagrams

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    paste

    English

    (wikipedia paste)

    Noun

  • 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.
  • Verb

    (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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