paper

  • (noun): 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.
  • (noun): A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
  • (noun): Wallpaper.
  • (noun): Wrapping paper.
  • (noun): (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.
  • (noun): A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
  • (noun): 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).
  • (noun): A scholastic essay.
  • (noun): A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
  • (noun): Money.
  • (noun): A university course.
  • (noun): A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
  • (noun): A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
  • (noun): A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
  • (noun): Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
  • (noun): (by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
  • (verb): To apply paper to.
  • (verb): To document; to memorialize.
  • (verb): To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
  • (verb): To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
  • (verb): To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
  • (verb): To sandpaper.
  • (verb): To enfold in paper.
  • (verb): To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
  • (adjective): Made of paper.
  • (adjective): Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
  • (adjective): Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
  • (adjective): Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
  • a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
  • cantharides paper
  • to paper the hallway walls
  • After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
  • As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.