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Definition paper

Etymology

From Middle English paper, borrowed from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old French papier, from Latin pap?rus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pápuros). Doublet of papyrus.

Noun

paper (countable and uncountable, plural papers)

1. A sheet material 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. (uncountable) Wallpaper.
4. (uncountable) Wrapping paper.
5. (rock paper scissors) 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. (slang) Money.
10. (New Zealand) A university course.
11. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
12. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
13. A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.

Adjective

paper (not comparable)

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

paper (third-person singular simple present papers, present participle papering, simple past and past participle papered)

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.

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