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What (who) is Paper - definition
paper
![A book printed in 1920 on [[acidic paper]], now disintegrating a hundred years later.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Book suffering from slow fire.jpg?width=200 "A book printed in 1920 on [[acidic paper]], now disintegrating a hundred years later.")
![Card and paper stock for [[crafts]] use comes in a wide variety of textures and colors.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Coloured, textured craft card.jpg?width=200 "Card and paper stock for [[crafts]] use comes in a wide variety of textures and colors.")
![Paper mill in [[Mänttä-Vilppula]], [[Finland]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mäntän paperitehdas 1.JPG?width=200 "Paper mill in [[Mänttä-Vilppula]], [[Finland]]")
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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
n.
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.
1.
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.
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2.
A paper is a newspaper.
I'll cook and you read the paper.
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3.
You can refer to newspapers in general as the paper or the papers.
You can't believe everything you read in the paper...
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4.
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
5.
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
6.
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.
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7.
A paper is an essay written by a student. (mainly AM)
...the ten common errors that appear most frequently in student papers.
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see also term paper
8.
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...
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9.
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.
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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]
Examples of use of Paper
1. This is a betting paper rather than a sports paper.
2. Keep layering cardboard, paper, plants, paper, and cardboard.
3. They‘re best kept in layers between paper towels, covered by a moist paper towel, or in an open paper bag.
4. Every paper claim they buy is a paper claim they will later sell, because they have no intention of converting their paper into real oil stocks.
5. Rags and paper would end up in businesses such as the British Paper Company, founded in 18'0 specifically to make paper and board from old scraps.