paper

Plural: papers

Noun

• a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
• an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
• a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements
  • "he read his newspaper at breakfast"
• a medium for written communication
  • "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"
• a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses
  • "he has written many scientific papers"
• a business firm that publishes newspapers
  • "Murdoch owns many newspapers"
• the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher
  • "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper"
• 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.
• Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
• Ellipsis of wallpaper.
• Ellipsis of wrapping paper.
• 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; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.
• 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 set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
• Money.
• Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
• 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.
• Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
• The people admitted by free passes.

Verb

Verb Forms: papered, papering, papers

• To cover or wrap something with paper.
• cover with paper
  • "paper the box"
• cover with wallpaper
• To apply paper to.
• To document; to memorialize.
• To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
• To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
• To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
• To sandpaper.
• To enfold in paper.
• To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
• To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.

Adj

• 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.

Examples

• a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
• After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
• cantharides paper
• Draw on the paper! Not on the walls!
• He decided to PAPER the board with small words, hoping to draw better tiles.
• I can't go out tonight. I have a paper due tomorrow, and I need to finish it tonight.
• In those days, the Reporter Dispatch was the paper of record around here, and everyone who was anyone took the paper [was a subscriber].
• In those days, you asked the butcher for a block of cheese, and he wrapped it up in paper for you.
• paper bag; paper plane
• paper rocket; paper engine
• paper tiger; paper gangster
• Read all about it in this morning's paper!
• The kids could hardly wait to tear the paper off their Christmas gifts.
• The paper mill on the south side of town makes various grades of paper and employs hundreds of people.
• The paperhangers had just finished hanging the paper in the dining room when the interior decorator walked in and exclaimed that it was the wrong color.
• Their team published a paper in the leading journal of their field, and its widespread impact elevated the reputation of their university department.

Synonyms

composition, newspaper, newspaper publisher, report, theme, wallpaper, paper the house

Related Words

paper over, paper tiger, papier-mâché, papirosa, papyrus

Anagrams of paper