Definitions for paper
ˈpeɪ pərpa·per

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. papernoun

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

2. composition, paper, report, themenoun

   an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

   "he got an A on his composition"

3. newspaper, papernoun

   a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

   "he read his newspaper at breakfast"

4. papernoun

   a medium for written communication

   "the notion of an office running without paper is absurd"

5. papernoun

   a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses

   "he has written many scientific papers"

6. newspaper, paper, newspaper publishernoun

   a business firm that publishes newspapers

   "Murdoch owns many newspapers"

7. newspaper, paperverb

   the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher

   "when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper"

8. paperverb

   cover with paper

   "paper the box"

9. wallpaper, paperverb

   cover with wallpaper

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1. Papernoun

   pl. Documents establishing a person's identity, or status, or attesting to some right, such as the right to drive a vehicle; as, the border guard asked for his papers.

2. paperadjective

   Existing only on paper; unsubstantial; having very overrated power; as, a paper box; a paper army; a paper tiger.

3. paperverb

   To cover or line with paper, especially with wallpaper; to furnish with paper hangings; to wallpaper; as, to paper a room or a house.

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. papernoun

   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.

2. papernoun

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

3. papernoun

   Wallpaper.

4. papernoun

   Wrapping paper.

5. papernoun

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

6. papernoun

   A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, a workshop or a symposium).

7. papernoun

   money.

8. papernoun

   A university course.

9. paperverb

   To apply paper to.

   to paper the hallway walls

10. paperverb

    To document; to memorialize.

    After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.

11. paperadjective

    Made of paper.

12. paperadjective

    Insubstantial.

    paper tiger

13. Etymology: From paper, from papier, from papyrus, from πάπυρος.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Paperadjective

   Any thing slight or thin.

   There is but a thin paper wall between great discoveries and a perfect ignorance of them. Burnet.

2. PAPERnoun

   Etymology: papier, French; papyrus, Latin.

   1. Substance on which men write and print; made by macerating linen rags in water, and then spreading them in thin sheets.

   I have seen her unlock her closet, take forth paper. William Shakespeare.

   2. Piece of paper.

   ’Tis as impossible to draw regular characters on a trembling mind, as on a shaking paper. John Locke, on Education.

   3. Single sheet printed, or written. It is used particularly of essays or journals, or any thing printed on a sheet. [ Feuille volante.]

   What see you in those papers, that you lose
   So much complexion? look ye how they change!
   Their cheeks are paper. William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

   Nothing is of more credit or request, than a petulant paper, or scoffing verses. Ben Jonson.

   They brought a paper to me to be sign’d. Dryden.

   Do the prints and papers lie? Jonathan Swift.

3. To Paperverb

   To register.

   Etymology: from the noun.].

   He makes up the file
   Of all the gentry: and his own letter
   Must fetch in him he papers. William Shakespeare, Hen. VIII.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Paper

   Paper is the second song of a double-A sided single from Queen Latifahs 1998 album Order in the Court. One of the first Queen Latifah songs that is all singing and no rap, it is essentially a cover of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" with significantly altered lyrics. The song was produced by Pras of The Fugees.

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1. paper

   Paper is a versatile and thin material made from plant fibers (such as wood pulp) or other materials that have been processed into a flexible sheet. It is commonly used as a surface for writing, printing, drawing, and packaging, as well as for various everyday purposes. Paper can be found in different forms and sizes, and it is typically lightweight and can easily be folded, cut, or manipulated.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Papernoun

   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. Papernoun

   a sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance

3. Papernoun

   a printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society

4. Papernoun

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

5. Papernoun

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

6. Papernoun

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

7. Papernoun

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

8. Papernoun

   a medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper

9. Paperadjective

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

10. Paperverb

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

11. Paperverb

    to fold or inclose in paper

12. Paperverb

    to put on paper; to make a memorandum of

13. Etymology: [F. papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. pa`pyros. Cf. Papyrus.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Paper

   Paper is a thin material mainly used for writing upon, printing upon, drawing or for packaging. It is produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets. Paper is a versatile material with many uses. Whilst the most common is for writing and printing upon, it is also widely used as a packaging material, in many cleaning products, in a number of industrial and construction processes, and even as a food ingredient – particularly in Asian cultures. Paper, and the pulp papermaking process, was said to be developed in China during the early 2nd century AD by the Han court eunuch Cai Lun, although the earliest archaeological fragments of paper derive from the 2nd century BC in China.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Paper

   pā′pėr, n. the material made from rags or vegetable fibres on which we commonly write and print: a piece of paper: a written or printed document or instrument, note, receipt, bill, bond, deed, &c.: a newspaper: an essay or literary contribution, generally brief: paper-money: paper-hangings for walls: a set of examination questions: free passes of admission to a theatre, &c., also the persons admitted by such.—adj. consisting or made of paper.—v.t. to cover with paper: to fold in paper: to treat in any way by means of paper, as to sand-paper, &c.: to paste the end-papers and fly-leaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.—ns. Pā′per-bar′on, or -lord, one who holds a title that is merely official, like that of a Scotch Lord of Session, &c., or whose title is merely by courtesy or convention; Pā′per-case, a box for holding writing materials, &c.; Pā′per-chase, the game of hounds and hares, when the hares scatter bits of paper to guide the hounds; Pā′per-cigar′, a cigarette; Pā′per-clamp, a frame for holding newspapers, sheets of music, &c., for easy reference; Pā′per-clip, or Letter-clip, an appliance with opening and closing spring, for holding papers together; Pā′per-cloth, a fabric prepared in many of the Pacific islands from the inner bark of the mulberry, &c.; Pā′per-cred′it, credit given to a person because he shows by bills, promissory notes, &c. that money is owing to him; Pā′per-cut′ter, a machine for cutting paper in sheets, for trimming the edges of books, &c.; Pā′per-day, one of certain days in each term for hearing causes down in the paper or roll of business; Pā′per-enam′el, an enamel for cards and fine note-paper.—adj. Pā′per-faced (Shak.), having a face as white as paper.—ns. Pā′per-feed′er, an apparatus for delivering sheets of paper to a printing-press, &c.; Pā′per-file, an appliance for holding letters, &c., for safety and readiness of reference; Pā′per-gauge, a rule for measuring the type-face of matter to be printed, and the width of the margin; Pā′per-hang′er, one who hangs paper on the walls of rooms, &c.—n.pl. Pā′per-hang′ings, paper, either plain or with coloured figures, for hanging on or covering walls.—ns. Pā′pering, the operation of covering or hanging with paper: the paper itself; Pā′per-knife, -cut′ter, -fold′er, a thin, flat blade of ivory, &c., for cutting open the leaves of books and other folded papers; Pā′per-mak′er, one who manufactures paper; Pā′per-mak′ing; Pā′per-mar′bler, one engaged in marbling paper; Pā′per-mill, a mill where paper is made; Pā′per-mon′ey, pieces of paper stamped or marked by government or by a bank, as representing a certain value of money, which pass from hand to hand instead of the coin itself; Pā′per-mus′lin, a glazed muslin for dress linings, &c.; Pā′per-nau′tilus, or -sail′or, the nautilus; Pā′per-off′ice, an office in Whitehall where state-papers are kept; Pā′per-pulp, the pulp from which paper is made; Pā′per-punch, an apparatus for piercing holes in paper; Pā′per-reed (B.), the papyrus; Pā′per-rul′er, one who, or an instrument which, makes straight lines on paper; Pā′per-stain′er, one who prepares paper-hangings; Pā′per-test′er, a machine for testing the stretching strength of paper; Pā′per-wash′ing (phot.), water in which prints have been washed; Pā′per-weight, a small weight for laying on a bundle of loose papers to prevent them from being displaced.—adj. Pā′pery, like paper.—Bristol paper or board, a strong smooth paper for drawing on; Brown-paper (see Brown); Chinese paper, rice-paper: a fine soft slightly brownish paper made from bamboo bark, giving fine impressions from engravings; Cream-laid paper, a smooth paper of creamy colour, much used for note-paper; Distinctive paper, a fine silk-threaded fibre paper used in the United States for bonds, &c.; Filter-paper (see Filter); Hand-made paper, that made wholly by hand, as still with some kinds of printing and drawing papers; Height-to-paper, in typefounding, the length of a type from its face to its foot (11⁄12 inch); Hot-pressed paper, paper polished by pressure between heated plates; Imperfect paper, sheets of poorer quality, as the two outside quires of a ream; India paper (see Indian); Japanese paper, a soft fine paper made from the bark of the paper-mulberry, giving good impressions of plate engravings; Lithographic paper, paper used for taking impressions from lithographic stones; Litmus paper (see Litmus); Marbled paper (see Marble); Parchment paper, a tough paper, prepared in imitation of parchment by dipping in diluted sulphuric acid and washing with weak ammonia; Plain paper, unruled paper: (phot.) any unglossy paper; Plate paper, the best class of book paper; Printing paper (see Print); Rag-paper, that made from the pulp of rags; Ruled paper, writing-paper ruled with lines for convenience; Sensitised paper (phot.), paper chemically treated so that its colour is affected by the action of light; State-paper (see State); Test-paper (see Test); Tissue-paper, a very thin soft paper for wrapping delicate articles, protecting engravings in books, &c.—also Silk-paper; Tracing-paper, transparent paper used for copying a design, &c., by laying it over the original, and copying the lines shown through it; Transfer-paper (see Transfer); Vellum paper, a heavy ungrained smooth paper, sometimes used in fine printing; Whatman paper, a fine quality of English paper, with fine or coarse grain, used for etchings, engravings, &c.; Wove paper, paper laid on flannel or felt, showing no marks of wires; Wrapping-paper, coarse paper used for wrapping up parcels, &c. [A shortened form of papyrus.]

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. papernoun

   Cash money (paper bank notes)

2. papernoun

   Cigarettes or weed rolling papers.

3. papernoun

   On paper mean u on probation or parole

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Paper

   From the Greek papyros, the Egyptian plant out of the reeds of which the earliest writing material was made.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PAPER

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Paper is ranked #67126 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Paper surname appeared 294 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Paper.
   
   94.2% or 277 total occurrences were White.
   2% or 6 total occurrences were Asian.
   2% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Matched Categories

1. • Article
   • Cover
   • Essay
   • Material
   • Medium
   • Press
   • Publisher

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'paper' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #601

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'paper' in Written Corpus Frequency: #397

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'paper' in Nouns Frequency: #134

Anagrams for paper »

1. rappe

How to pronounce paper?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say paper in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of paper in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of paper in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of paper in a Sentence

1. Greg Schmidt:

   My dad invited Rudy Kalman to give a lecture at Ames, and when he did, Dad had an epiphany, rudy Kalman had written a paper about a theoretical' linear' solution to estimating a vehicle's location and speed. The problem was that this was a fundamentally' nonlinear' problem ; that's like the difference in complexity between floating down a lazy river and going over a waterfall, where your motion becomes chaotic and unpredictable. My dad then developed the equations for how to solve this nonlinear problem -- a major extension of Kalman's work.

2. Chief Executive Dave Calhoun:

   We're going to start with a clean sheet of paper again; I'm looking forward to that.

3. Rebecca Freel:

   It entertains me to watch their videos and seeing their pictures, they are learning more from doing this than if I just gave them a paper to do or a website to go on. They really have to dive in and think.

4. Justin Turner:

   No matter what is said on paper, you still have to go out and play the game and do all the things right, except we’re not doing the little things right now and it seems like we’re playing for every mistake.

5. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images:

   I started journaling after I wrote my book. It gets my thoughts out and lets me face them on paper. I know I can't carry the weight of the world and all those thoughts all the time, after a busy day of taking care of everyone, this clears my mind so I can have a restful night of sleep.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=paper
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=paper
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Paper
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=paper
5. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper
6. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
7. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper
8. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=paper
9. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=paper
10. ^ Etymology and Origins
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=paper
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html