paper
Pronunciation: /ˈpeɪ̯.pə/
The English word “paper” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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.
- 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; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.
- 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 set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- Money.
- Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
- 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.
- Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
- The people admitted by free passes.
adjective
verb
- To apply paper to.
- To document; to memorialize.
- To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
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).
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