(grammar) A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time).

The past historic tense.

(grammar) A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in function a pluperfect, and in form composed of the conjunction of the simple past tense of an auxiliary verb (avoir, être) with the past participle.

Pieced together from several sources.

To compose a document by piecing together components of other documents. / (computing) To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.

A concentrate of tomato purée; used in making pizzas etc.

(grammar, of the tense) Of a tense, not pertaining to the past; in particular, applicable to both the present and the future.

(luge) A paste used to polish the steels, containing microscopic diamond particles

(grammar) A tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past.

Alternative form of pace egg