papers

1. 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.
2. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
3. Wallpaper.
4. Wrapping paper.
5. 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.
6. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
7. 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).
8. A scholastic essay.
9. A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
10. (slang) Money.
11. Any financial assets other than specie.
12. A university course.
13. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
14. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
15. A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
16. Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
17. The people admitted by free passes.