paper

Meaning

Noun

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.

Adj

1. Made of paper.
2. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
3. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
4. Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.

Verb

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpeɪpə/

Etymology

From Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus (and given the Catalan suffix -er), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).

Sentences

It usually contains a diary , calendar , address book , blank paper , and other sections .