different between paste vs weld

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French paste (modern pâte), from Old French paste, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek ????? (pásta). Doublet of pasta and patty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st
• Homophone: paced

Noun

paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:
   1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
   2. (obsolete) Pastry.
      • 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer

        And that day month, he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.

   3. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
   4. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
2. (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
3. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
4. (obsolete) Pasta.
5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: pasta

Translations

Verb

paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
2. (intransitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
3. (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.
   • 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23,

     He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

4. (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pesta, aspet, pates, peats, pâtés, sepat, septa, septa-, spate, speat, stape, tapes, tepas

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?past?]

Verb

paste

1. second-person plural imperative of pást

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

paste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of passen

Italian

Noun

paste f pl

1. plural of pasta

Anagrams

• pesta

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?s.te/, [?pä?s?t??]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?pa?s.te/, [?pa?ste]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pas.te/, [?p?st??]

Participle

p?ste

1. vocative masculine singular of p?stus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”)

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek ????? (pásta).

Noun

paste m (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)

1. dough; paste
2. pastry

Derived terms

• pastaierie

Descendants

• Middle French: paste
  • French: pâte
• ? Middle English: paste
  • English: paste
    • ? Cebuano: pasta
  • Scots: paste, paist

References

• paste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Verb

paste

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pastar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pastar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pastar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pastar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?paste/, [?pas.t?e]
• Hyphenation: pas?te

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

paste m (plural pastes)

1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)
2. loofah (plant in the Luffa genus)

Alternative forms

• (loofah): paxte

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

paste

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pastar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pastar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pastar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pastar.

Further reading

• “paste” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?ld/
• Homophone: welled
• Rhymes: -?ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant from of w?d, Proto-West Germanic *wai?d, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Alternatively reborrowed from or contaminated by Anglo-Norman wold, wolde (compare Old French guaide). Doublet of woad.

Alternative forms

• wold

Noun

weld

1. A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
2. The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

Synonyms

• (Reseda luteola): dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of well (“boil, rise”), probably influenced by the past participle, welled.

Verb

weld (third-person singular simple present welds, present participle welding, simple past and past participle welded)

1. (transitive) To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
2. (transitive) To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.
   • 1847: Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess

     Now should men see / Two women faster welded in one love / Than pairs of wedlock.

Derived terms

• all-welded
• long-welded

Translations

Noun

weld (plural welds)

1. The joint made by welding.
   • 2001, James E. Duffy, I-Car Professional Automotive Collision Repair (page 173)

     Excessive spot weld time may cause the electrode tips to mushroom, resulting in no focus of current and a weak weld.

Derived terms

• butt weld
• scarf weld

See also

• braze
• solder

Etymology 3

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Verb

weld (third-person singular simple present welds, present participle welding, simple past and past participle welded)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To wield.
   • 1485: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, p. 168 line 2 (Sommer edition)

     [Arthur says to a wicked giant] "he that alle the world weldeth gyue the ?orte lyf & ?ameful dethe" ("He who wields all the world gives thee short life and shameful death")

   • 1485: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, p. 172 line 2 (Sommer edition)

     [Arthur says to conquering knights] "ye be worthy to welde all your honour and worship"

References

• weld in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• lewd

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• well (chiefly Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Middle High German wilde, from Old High German wildi, from Proto-West Germanic *wilþ?, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?elt/

Adjective

weld (masculine welde or welle, feminine weld or well, comparative welder or weller, superlative et weldste)

1. (chiefly Ripuarian) wild

Usage notes

• The traditional inflected forms are those with -ll- in all dialects. Those with -ld- are now predominant, however, in many dialects under standard German influence.

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?ld/

Verb

weld

1. Soft mutation of gweld (“to see”).

Mutation