noodle vs pasta

noodle and pasta both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
noodle	Yes	No	No	No
pasta	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, pasta is a hypernym of noodle; that is, pasta is a word with a broader meaning than noodle:

Other hypernyms of noodle include alimentary paste.

noodle (noun)	pasta (noun)
informal terms for a human head	shaped and dried dough made from flour and water and sometimes egg
a ribbonlike strip of pasta	a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient