paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪpə/
enpr: pā'pər
ipa: /ˈpeɪpɚ/
ipa: [ˈpʰeɪpɚ]
ipa: [ˈpeːpə(r)]
ipa: [ˈpeɪpə(r)]
rhymes: -eɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: papers
Etymology: From Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus (and given the Catalan suffix -er), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).
Senses: examples: text: Draw on the paper! Not on the walls!
text: The paper mill on the south side of town makes various grades of paper and employs hundreds of people.
text: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
examples: text: Read all about it in this morning's paper!
text: In those days, the Reporter Dispatch was the paper of record around here, and everyone who was anyone took the paper [was a subscriber].
text: "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.[…]."
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:
text: “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
text: However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
ref: 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
glosses: Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
examples: text: The paperhangers had just finished hanging the paper in the dining room when the interior decorator walked in and exclaimed that it was the wrong color.
text: There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:
glosses: Ellipsis of wallpaper.
examples: text: In those days, you asked the butcher for a block of cheese, and he wrapped it up in paper for you.
text: The kids could hardly wait to tear the paper off their Christmas gifts.
glosses: Ellipsis of wrapping paper.
topics: games
rock-paper-scissors
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Near-synonym: report
text: I can't go out tonight. I have a paper due tomorrow, and I need to finish it tonight.
glosses: A written document, generally shorter than a book; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.
examples: text: Their team published a paper in the leading journal of their field, and its widespread impact elevated the reputation of their university department.
text: This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.
ref: 2014 January 23, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:
glosses: 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).
glosses: A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
glosses: Money.
examples: text: Why might not a Government annuity, the Principal of which was originally invested in Paper since the Cash suspension in 1797, be constituted the guarantee of Paper Money, emendating from that investiture and suspension, and the Parliament authority transferred to its security, as it has been to its creation, in preference to all others, while Paper continues our general Medium.
ref: 1812, William Major, Theory of Money and Exchanges, page XV:
text: […] three millions and a half specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges […]
ref: 1859, The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, page 244:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
glosses: A university course.
examples: text: a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
glosses: A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
examples: text: cantharides paper
glosses: A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
glosses: A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
glosses: Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
glosses: The people admitted by free passes.
Derived terms: word: abrasive paper
word: absorbent paper
word: accommodation paper
word: alpha paper
word: aluminium paper
word: art paper
word: artpaper
word: asthma paper
word: bakery paper
word: bakery release paper
word: baking paper
word: ballot paper
word: banana paper
word: bank paper
word: blotting paper
word: bog paper
word: bond paper
word: Bristol paper
word: bromide paper
word: brown paper
word: brown paper bag party
word: brown paper bag test
word: brown rosin paper
word: buckypaper
word: building paper
word: busy as a one-armed paper hanger
word: butcher paper
word: butchers' paper
word: butcher's paper
word: butter paper
word: carbonic paper
word: carbonless copy paper
word: carbon paper
word: cartridge paper
word: case papers
word: ceiling paper
word: chattel paper
word: cheese paper
word: Chinese paper
word: chromatography paper
word: cigarette paper
word: coated paper
word: colombier paper
word: command paper
word: commercial paper
word: construction paper
word: correction paper
word: crepe paper
word: crêpe paper
word: curl-paper
word: curlpaper
word: daily paper
word: digital paper
word: distinctive paper
word: elephant paper
word: emery paper
word: enamel paper
word: enfaced paper
word: e-paper
word: examination paper
word: exam paper
word: ferropaper
word: filter paper
word: final paper
word: fish paper
word: flash paper
word: flint paper
word: flock paper
word: fly-paper
word: fly paper
word: flypaper
word: freezer paper
word: funny paper
word: glasspaper
word: gloss paper
word: glossy paper
word: graphing paper
word: graph paper
word: greaseproof paper
word: green paper
word: grid paper
word: grocery paper
word: gun-paper
word: gun paper
word: hand paper
word: hang paper
word: height to paper
word: India paper
word: Japanese paper
word: joss paper
word: kitchen paper
word: kraft paper
word: lace paper
word: lavvy paper
word: ledger paper
word: letter paper
word: light paper
word: light the touch-paper
word: linen paper
word: liquid paper
word: litmus paper
word: log-log paper
word: loo paper
word: manila paper
word: manuscript paper
word: marble paper
word: music paper
word: newspaper
word: nonpaper
word: non-paper
word: noosepaper
word: notepaper
word: oak paper
word: oilpaper
word: onion paper
word: on paper
word: order paper
word: Oslo paper
word: ozone paper
word: Panama Papers
word: paper aeroplane
word: paper airplane
word: paper anniversary
word: paperback
word: paperbacked
word: paper bag
word: paper-bag
word: paperbag
word: paper bag party
word: paper bag test
word: paperbag waist
word: paper ballot
word: paper bank
word: paperbark
word: paper-based
word: paper bin
word: paper birch
word: paper board
word: paperboard
word: paper book
word: paper-bound
word: paperbound
word: paperboy
word: paperbush
word: paper candidate
word: paper cartridge
word: paper case
word: paper ceiling
word: paper chain
word: paper chase
word: paperchase
word: paper chromatogram
word: paper chromatography
word: paper cigar
word: paper clamp
word: paper clay
word: paper clip
word: paper-cloth
word: papercraft
word: paper crane
word: paper credit
word: papercrete
word: paper cup
word: paper currency
word: paper cut
word: paper cutter
word: paper cutting
word: papercutting
word: paper day
word: paper diaper
word: paper doll
word: paper dragon
word: paper driver
word: paper enamel
word: paper-faced
word: paper fastener
word: paper fight
word: paper flier
word: paper flower
word: paperflower
word: paper flyer
word: paper-folder
word: paperfolding
word: paperful
word: paper gauge
word: paper general
word: papergirl
word: paper gold
word: paper hands
word: paperhanger
word: paperhanging
word: paper hat
word: paperhood
word: paper hornet
word: paper house
word: paper hunting
word: paperish
word: paper jam
word: paper kite butterfly
word: paper-knife
word: paperknife
word: paper launch
word: paperless
word: paperlike
english: partly
translation: partly
word: paper mache
word: paper machine
word: papermaker
word: papermaking
word: paperman
word: paper mill
word: paper-milling
word: paper money
word: papermouth
word: paper mulberry
word: paper muslin
word: papern
word: paper nautilus
word: paper orphan
word: paper over
word: paper over the cracks
word: paper park
word: paperphile
word: paperphilia
word: paper plane
word: paper plate
word: paper profit
word: paper punch
word: paper-pusher
word: paper qualification syndrome
word: paper reed
word: paper round
word: paper route
word: paper sailor
word: paper scissors stone
word: papershell
word: paper shop
word: paper snowflake
word: paper son
word: paper spurge
word: paper stainer
word: paper streamer
word: paper street
word: paper tape
word: paper-thick
word: paper-thin
word: paper thosai
word: paper ticket
word: paper tiger
word: paper towel
word: paper toweling
word: paper town
word: paper township
word: paper trade
word: paper trail
word: paper-train
word: paper tripping
word: paper-view
word: paper wall
word: paperwall
word: paper wallet
word: paperware
word: paper wasp
word: paperweight
word: paperwhite
word: paperwoman
word: paperwork
word: paperworker
word: paperworks
word: papery
word: paper yabber
word: paraffin paper
word: parchment paper
word: past paper
word: pen and paper
word: pen-and-paper
word: photographic paper
word: photo paper
word: photopaper
word: picture paper
word: piece of paper
word: pith paper
word: plain paper
word: plate paper
word: point paper
word: position paper
word: probability paper
word: punched paper tape
word: push paper
word: push papers
word: put pen to paper
word: quad paper
word: quadrille paper
word: rag paper
word: red building paper
word: red rosin paper
word: repaper
word: research paper
word: rice paper
word: rock paper scissors
word: rock-paper-scissors
word: rolling paper
word: rosin paper
word: run of paper
word: safety paper
word: Samarqandi paper
word: sanding paper
word: sandpaper
word: sandwich paper
word: satin paper
word: scientific paper
word: scissors paper stone
word: scrap paper
word: scratch paper
word: you in the funny papers
word: semilog paper
word: semi-log paper
word: set pen to paper
word: sheet of paper
word: Shuen paper
word: silk paper
word: silver paper
word: slip sheet paper
word: soda paper
word: spoil-paper
word: stone paper
word: sugar paper
word: synthetic paper
word: tarpaper
word: tar paper
word: telepaper
word: term paper
word: test-paper
word: test paper
word: thermal paper
word: thermochromic paper
word: thin paper
word: thread-paper
word: tissue paper
word: toffee paper
word: toilet-paper
word: toilet paper
word: tomorrow's chip paper
word: toned paper
word: torchon paper
word: touch-paper
word: tracing paper
word: transfer paper
word: trashpaper
word: treacle paper
word: turmeric paper
word: two-name paper
word: unpaper
word: vellum paper
word: velvet paper
word: vignetting paper
word: walking papers
word: wastepaper
word: waste paper
word: watch paper
word: waxed paper
word: wax paper
word: way out of a paper bag
word: way out of a wet paper bag
word: Whatman paper
word: white paper
word: workpaper
word: wrapping paper
word: writing paper
word: xuan paper
word: Xuan paper
word: Yoshino paper
Related terms: papier-mâché
papirosa
papyrus