What (who) is paper - definition

paper

THIN, FLEXIBLE MATERIAL MAINLY USED FOR WRITING UPON, PRINTING UPON, DRAWING OR FOR PACKAGING

Granite paper; Homemade paper; Loose paper; Sheet of paper; Paper sheet; Sheets of paper; PAPER; Printer paper; Scratch paper; Office paper; Papersheet

lecture, treatise

essay

1) to deliver, give, offer, present, read a paper

2) to publish; write a paper

3) (in a school, at a university) to do, write; hand in a paper (the pupils did a paper on the problem of air pollution; the students were required to hand in their papers by the end of the semester)

4) an invited; position; term; test paper

5) a paper about, on

6) a paper for (I had to do a paper for my history course)

document

7) a green (BE); white paper

negotiable instruments

8) commercial; negotiable paper

material made from wood pulp

9) to recycle (scrap) paper

10) blank; blotting; bond; carbon; cigarette; filter; glossy; graph; lined; litmus; manila; scrap; scratch (esp. AE); tar; tissue; toilet; tracing; typing; wax, waxed; wrapping; writing paper

11) (misc.) a ream of paper

sheet of writing material

12) to line paper

13) a piece, sheet; scrap of paper

14) on paper ('in written form')

newspaper

15) to get a paper out, publish a paper

16) a school; trade paper (see also newspaper)

Paper

THIN, FLEXIBLE MATERIAL MAINLY USED FOR WRITING UPON, PRINTING UPON, DRAWING OR FOR PACKAGING

Granite paper; Homemade paper; Loose paper; Sheet of paper; Paper sheet; Sheets of paper; PAPER; Printer paper; Scratch paper; Office paper; Papersheet

·vt To fold or inclose in paper.

II. Paper ·noun A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

III. Paper ·vt To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.

IV. Paper ·noun A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

V. Paper ·noun Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. ·see Paper hangings, below.

VI. Paper ·vt To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.

VII. Paper ·noun A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, ·etc.

VIII. Paper ·noun A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.

IX. Paper ·noun A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.

X. Paper ·noun Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.

XI. Paper ·adj Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.

XII. Paper ·noun A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.

paper

THIN, FLEXIBLE MATERIAL MAINLY USED FOR WRITING UPON, PRINTING UPON, DRAWING OR FOR PACKAGING

Granite paper; Homemade paper; Loose paper; Sheet of paper; Paper sheet; Sheets of paper; PAPER; Printer paper; Scratch paper; Office paper; Papersheet

(papers, papering, papered)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

Paper is a material that you write on or wrap things with. The pages of this book are made of paper.

He wrote his name down on a piece of paper for me...

She sat at the table with pen and paper.

...a sheet of pretty wrapping paper.

...a paper bag.

N-UNCOUNT

A paper is a newspaper.

I'll cook and you read the paper.

N-COUNT

You can refer to newspapers in general as the paper or the papers.

You can't believe everything you read in the paper...

N-COUNT: the N

Your papers are sheets of paper with writing or information on them, which you might keep in a safe place at home.

Her papers included unpublished articles and correspondence.

N-PLURAL: usu with poss

Your papers are official documents, for example your passport or identity card, which prove who you are or which give you official permission to do something.

They have arrested four people who were trying to leave the country with forged papers.

= identification

N-PLURAL: usu poss N

A paper is a long, formal piece of writing about an academic subject.

He just published a paper in the journal Nature analyzing the fires.

N-COUNT

A paper is an essay written by a student. (mainly AM)

...the ten common errors that appear most frequently in student papers.

N-COUNT

see also term paper

A paper is a part of a written examination in which you answer a number of questions in a particular period of time.

We sat each paper in the Hall...

N-COUNT

A paper prepared by a government or a committee is a report on a question they have been considering or a set of proposals for changes in the law.

...a new government paper on European policy.

N-COUNT

see also Green Paper
, White Paper

10.

Paper agreements, qualifications, or profits are ones that are stated by official documents to exist, although they may not really be effective or useful.

We're looking for people who have experience rather than paper qualifications.

ADJ: ADJ n

11.

If you paper a wall, you put wallpaper on it.

We papered all four bedrooms...

The room was strange, the walls half papered, half painted.

VERB: V n, V-ed

12.

If you put your thoughts down on paper, you write them down.

It is important to get something down on paper...

PHRASE: PHR after v

13.

If something seems to be the case on paper, it seems to be the case from what you read or hear about it, but it may not really be the case.

On paper, their country is a multi-party democracy...

PHRASE

14.

If you say that a promise, an agreement, or a guarantee is not worth the paper it's written on, you mean that although it has been written down and seems to be official, it is in fact worthless because what has been promised will not be done.

PHRASE: Vs inflect [disapproval]