Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to paste
Participle: pasted
Gerund: pasting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | paste |
| you | paste |
| he;she;it | pastes |
| we | paste |
| you | paste |
| they | paste |
Perfect
| I | have pasted |
| you | have pasted |
| he;she;it | has pasted |
| we | have pasted |
| you | have pasted |
| they | have pasted |
Past
| I | pasted |
| you | pasted |
| he;she;it | pasted |
| we | pasted |
| you | pasted |
| they | pasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had pasted |
| you | had pasted |
| he;she;it | had pasted |
| we | had pasted |
| you | had pasted |
| they | had pasted |
Future
| I | will paste |
| you | will paste |
| he;she;it | will paste |
| we | will paste |
| you | will paste |
| they | will paste |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pasted |
| you | will have pasted |
| he;she;it | will have pasted |
| we | will have pasted |
| you | will have pasted |
| they | will have pasted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | paste |
| you | paste |
| he;she;it | paste |
| we | paste |
| you | paste |
| they | paste |
Perfect
| I | have pasted |
| you | have pasted |
| he;she;it | have pasted |
| we | have pasted |
| you | have pasted |
| they | have pasted |
Imperfect
| I | pasted |
| you | pasted |
| he;she;it | pasted |
| we | pasted |
| you | pasted |
| they | pasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had pasted |
| you | had pasted |
| he;she;it | had pasted |
| we | had pasted |
| you | had pasted |
| they | had pasted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would paste |
| you | would paste |
| he;she;it | would paste |
| we | would paste |
| you | would paste |
| they | would paste |
Perfect
| I | would have pasted |
| you | would have pasted |
| he;she;it | would have pasted |
| we | would have pasted |
| you | would have pasted |
| they | would have pasted |
Imperative
| you | paste |
| we | Let's paste |
| you | paste |
Verbs conjugated like 'paste'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'paste'
baste,
haste,
taste,
waste,
ante,
aske,
base,
bate,
case,
cast,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1166, "dough," from O.Fr.
paste, from L.L.
pasta "dough, pastry cake, paste" (see pasta). Meaning "glue mixture" is first attested 1440. The verb "to stick with paste" is from 1560s.
Pasteboard (1548) is so called because it is made of sheets of paper pasted together.
Pasties "adhesive patches worn over the nipples by exotic dancers" first attested 1961.
2. Etymology tree
3. Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
5. Proto-Hellenic *-tós
6. Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
7. Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
8. Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
9. Late Latin pasta
10. Old French pastebor.
11. Middle English paste
12. English paste
13. From Middle English paste, from Old French paste (modern pâte), from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá). Doublet of pasta. The verb is from the noun. Middle English had pasten (“to make a paste of; bake in a pastry”), also from the noun; compare Latin pistō and Medieval Latin pastillātus. See: Latin '
pistō'.
Sample Sentences
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‘The first experiments were made by taking articles in common use, such as knives, forks, spoons, keys, &c., and pasting upon them labels with their names printed in raised letters. These she felt very carefully, and soon, of course, distinguished that the crooked lines spoon, differed as much from the crooked [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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‘Then small detached labels, with the same words printed upon them, were put into her hands; and she soon observed that they were similar to the ones pasted on the articles. ’ She showed her perception of this similarity by laying the label key upon the key, and the label spoon upon the spoon. She was encouraged here by the natural sign [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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On one of the door-posts at this inn, was a tin plate, whereon was inscribed in characters of gold, ‘Doctor Crocus; ’ and on a sheet of paper, pasted up by the side of this plate, was a written announcement that Dr. Crocus would that evening deliver a lecture on Phrenology for the benefit of the Belleville public; at a charge, for admission, of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] the log Inn, which was the only house of entertainment in the place, but soon answered to our knocking, and got some tea for us in a sort of kitchen or common room, tapestried with old newspapers, pasted against the wall. The bed-chamber to which my wife and I were shown, was a large, low, ghostly room; with a quantity of withered branches on the hearth, and two doors without any fastening, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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Legree noted on a slate, on the side of which was pasted a list of names, the amount.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)