(countable, uncountable) 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.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of wallpaper.
(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of wrapping paper.
(countable, uncountable) 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.
(countable, uncountable) A written document, generally shorter than a book; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.
(countable, uncountable) 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).
(British, Hong-Kong, countable, uncountable) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
(countable, slang, uncountable) Money.
(uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
(New-Zealand, countable, uncountable) A university course.
(countable, uncountable) A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
(countable, uncountable) A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
(countable, uncountable) A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
(countable, dated, uncountable) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
(broadly, countable, dated, uncountable) The people admitted by free passes.

(not-comparable) Made of paper.
(not-comparable) Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
(not-comparable) Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
(not-comparable) Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.

(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.

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