noun

1. 1. dough used in making rich pastry
   2. pasta
2. any of various soft, moist, smooth-textured substances toothpaste
3. a foodstuff, pounded or ground until fine and made creamy, soft, etc. almond paste
4. a jellylike candy
5. a mixture of flour or starch, water, and occasionally alum, resin, etc., used as an adhesive for paper or other light materials
6. the moistened clay used in manufacturing pottery and porcelain
7. 1. a hard, brilliant glass containing oxide of lead, used in making artificial gems; strass
   2. such a gem or gems
8. Slang a blow, or punch, as with the fist

Etymology: ME past < OFr paste < LL pasta < Gr pastē, mess of barley porridge < passein, to sprinkle

transitive verb pasted past′ed, pasting past′·ing

1. to fasten or make adhere with paste
2. to cover with pasted material to paste a wall with posters
3. Slang to hit; punch