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Paper   /pˈeɪpər/   Listen
Paper

noun
1.
A material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses.
2.
An essay (especially one written as an assignment).  Synonyms: composition, report, theme.
3.
A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements.  Synonym: newspaper.
4.
A medium for written communication.
5.
A scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses.
6.
A business firm that publishes newspapers.  Synonyms: newspaper, newspaper publisher.
7.
The physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher.  Synonym: newspaper.
verb
(past & past part. papered; pres. part. papering)
1.
Cover with paper.
2.
Cover with wallpaper.  Synonym: wallpaper.



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"Paper" Quotes from Famous Books



... and nature of the so-called "Jefferson-Lemen Secret Anti-Slavery Compact," the available evidence concerning which will be given at the conclusion of this paper.[7] The anti-slavery propaganda of James Lemen and his circle constituted a determining factor in the history of the first generation of Illinois Baptists. To what extent Lemen co-operated with Jefferson in his movements will appear ...
— The Jefferson-Lemen Compact • Willard C. MacNaul

... meant. She would be always dancing with others. And the cotillion proved as he had expected. Everything happened, but it was all the same to him. Dancers had gone from the dancing-room and returned in masks and dominoes. A paper imitation of a sixteenth-century house had been brought in, ladies had shown themselves at the lattice, they had been serenaded, and had chosen serenaders to dance with. And when at the end of his inventions the leader fell back on the hand glass and the cushion, ...
— Celibates • George Moore

... the door was shut. In about a quarter of an hour he reappeared and, leaving the door partly open behind him, he came out and crossed over to where the others were waiting. As he drew near they could see that he carried a piece of paper in his hand. ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... tongue. Speech is directly to and from the soul. Writing, the deliberation of which fits age better than youth, slows down its impetuosity many fold, and is in every way farther removed from vocal utterance than is the eye from the ear. Never have there been so many pounds of paper, so many pencils, and such excessive scribbling as in the calamopapyrus [Pen-paper] pedagogy of to-day and in this country. Not only has the daily theme spread as infection, but the daily lesson is now extracted through the point of a pencil instead of from the mouth. The tongue rests and ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... enemy shall not have in his possession at any time or place, or use or operate, any aircraft or wireless apparatus, or any form of signaling device or any form of cipher code or any paper, document, or book written or printed in cipher or in which there may ...
— World's War Events, Vol. II • Various


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