paper

Noun

1. (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.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of wallpaper.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of wrapping paper.
5. (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.
6. (countable, uncountable) A written document, generally shorter than a book; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.
7. (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).
8. (British, Hong-Kong, countable, uncountable) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
9. (countable, slang, uncountable) Money.
10. (uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
11. (New-Zealand, countable, uncountable) A university course.
12. (countable, uncountable) A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
13. (countable, uncountable) A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
14. (countable, uncountable) A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
15. (countable, dated, uncountable) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
16. (broadly, countable, dated, uncountable) The people admitted by free passes.

Adj

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

Verb

1. (transitive) To apply paper to.
2. (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
3. (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
4. (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
5. (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
6. (transitive) To sandpaper.
7. (transitive) 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. (Northeastern, US) To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpeɪpə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: paper

In summary

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).

Synonyms

book

📖

document

newspaper

📰

letter

essay

writing

wallpaper

article

sheet

thesis

treatise

composition

leaf

report

page

gazette

deed

text

theme

sheet of paper

mail

notebook

📓

magazine

commercial paper

dissertation

discourse

journal

piece of paper

bill

newspaper publisher

record

study

rag

papery

project

warrant

newsprint

manuscript

lecture

periodical

work

dough

documents

colloquium

blade

disquisition

coat

🧥

kindling

item

decorate

Translations

papier

Papier

carta

papel

papel

papier

χαρτί

papier

paper

kâğıt

giornale

📰

charta

diario

εφημερίδα

journal

Sentences

Young girl wearing white holding colorful paper by her mouth .

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

Prior to that , interviews were administered using paper and pencil .

The paper presents a variant of a hidden Markov model for images .