paste

noun

• a thick, soft, moist substance, usually produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid:blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste
• a paste used as an adhesive, especially for sticking paper and other light materials:wallpaper paste
• a mixture consisting mainly of clay and water that is used in making ceramic ware, especially a mixture of low plasticity based on kaolin for making porcelain.
• a hard vitreous composition used in making imitation gems: [as modifier]:paste brooches

verb

• 1coat with paste:when coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric
• [with object and adverbial of place] fasten or stick (something) onto something with paste:ads are pasted on the walls
• Computing insert (a piece of text or other data copied from elsewhere).

• 2 informal beat or defeat severely:he pasted the guy and tied his ankles together