paper
IPA: pˈeɪpɝ
noun
- A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
- A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
- (uncountable) Wallpaper.
- (uncountable) Wrapping paper.
- (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
- A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
- A scholastic essay.
- (Britain, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- (slang) Money.
- (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie.
- (New Zealand) A university course.
- A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
- A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
- A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
- (dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
- (dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
verb
- (transitive) To apply paper to.
- (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
- (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
- (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
- (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
- (transitive) To sandpaper.
- (transitive) To enfold in paper.
- To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
- (Northeastern US) To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.
adjective
- Made of paper.
- Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
- Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
- Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
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Examples of "paper" in Sentences
- The paper is blank.
- This paper is reversible but that paper is not.
- The paper carried the hammer and sickle on its first page.
- The paper size was changed in 2006 to a tabloid style paper.
- The registration only link displays the first page of the paper.
- Erasable paper is not suitable for legal documents or archival records.
- Inside the folder, he had the cover page of the local Santa Rosa paper.
- The Contraband paper size was changed in 2006 to a tabloid style paper.
- The last paper is interesting and explains why Ayala's paper was a misstep.
- The cover of the book is obsidian and the pages are sheets of paper thin lead.