PAPER

newspaper, paper

(noun) the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher; “when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper”

paper

(noun) a medium for written communication; “the notion of an office running without paper is absurd”

newspaper, paper

(noun) a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements; “he read his newspaper at breakfast”

paper

(noun) a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses; “he has written many scientific papers”

composition, paper, report, theme

(noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment); “he got an A on his composition”

newspaper, paper, newspaper publisher

(noun) a business firm that publishes newspapers; “Murdoch owns many newspapers”

paper

(noun) a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses

wallpaper, paper

(verb) cover with wallpaper

paper

(verb) cover with paper; “paper the box”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

paper (countable and uncountable, plural papers)

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.

A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

(uncountable) Wallpaper.

(uncountable) Wrapping paper.

(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.

A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.

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).

A scholastic essay.

(Britain) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.

(slang) Money.

(New Zealand) A university course.

A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.

A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.

(dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.

(dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.

Synonyms

• (medium used in writing): bookfell

Hyponyms

• abrasive paper

• art paper

• banana paper

• blotting paper

• bog paper

• brown paper

• butcher paper

• carbon paper

• chattel paper

• cigarette paper

• commercial paper

• construction paper

• crêpe paper

• daily paper

• emery paper

• filter paper

• funny paper

• graph paper

• green paper

• hang paper

• linen paper

• liquid paper

• litmus paper

• loo paper

• newspaper

• Panama Papers

• photographic paper

• photo paper, photopaper

• position paper

• plain paper

• quadrille paper

• rice paper

• sandpaper

• scientific paper

• sheet of paper

• scratch paper

• silver paper

• soda paper

• term paper

• test paper

• tissue paper

• toilet paper

• touch-paper

• tracing paper

• treacle paper

• white paper

• wrapping paper

• writing paper

Adjective

paper (not comparable)

Made of paper.

Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)

Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)

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)

(transitive) To apply paper to.

(transitive) To document; to memorialize.

(transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.

(transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).

(transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.

(transitive) To sandpaper.

(transitive) To enfold in paper.

To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.

Source: Wiktionary

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Pa"per, n. Etym: [F. papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. Papyrus.]

1. 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.

2. A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

3. A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. They brought a paper to me to be signed. Dryden.

4. A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

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

6. Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.

7. A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

8. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.

Note: Paper is manufactured in sheets, the trade names of which, together with the regular sizes in inches, are shown in the following table. But paper makers vary the size somewhat.

Note: In the manufacture of books, etc., a sheet, of whatever size originally, is termed, when folded once, a folio; folded twice, a quarto, or 4to; three times, an octavo, or 8vo; four times, a sextodecimo, or 16mo; five times, a 32mo; three times, with an offcut folded twice and set in, a duodecimo, or 12mo; four times, with an offcut folded three times and set in, a 24mo.

Note: Paper is often used adjectively or in combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker; paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight, or paperweight, etc. Business paper, checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to accommodation paper.

– Fly paper, paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used for catching flies.

– Laid paper. See under Laid.

– Paper birch (Bot.), the canoe birch tree (Betula papyracea).

– Paper blockade, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval force.

– Paper boat (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper.

– Paper car wheel (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between two plate-iron disks. Forney.

– Paper credit, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such as promissory notes, duebills, etc.

– Paper hanger, one who covers walls with paper hangings.

– Paper hangings, paper printed with colored figures, or otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper.

– Paper house, an audience composed of people who have come in on free passes. [Cant] -- Paper money, notes or bills, usually issued by government or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money, and circulated as the representative of coin.

– Paper mulberry. (Bot.) See under Mulberry.

– Paper muslin, glazed muslin, used for linings, etc.

– Paper nautilus. (Zoöl.) See Argonauta.

– Paper reed (Bot.), the papyrus.

– Paper sailor. (Zoöl.) See Argonauta.

– Paper stainer, one who colors or stamps wall paper. De Colange.

– Paper wasp (Zoöl.), any wasp which makes a nest of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket.

– Paper weight, any object used as a weight to prevent loose papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise.

– Parchment paper. See Papyrine.

– Tissue paper, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books.

– Wall paper. Same as Paper hangings, above.

– Waste paper, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless, except for uses of little account.

– Wove paper, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked.

Pa"per, a.

Definition: Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.

Pa"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Papered(); p. pr. & vb. n. Papering.]

1. To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.

2. To fold or inclose in paper.

3. To put on paper; to make a memorandum of. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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