paper meaning
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[ˈpeɪpə] [ˈpeɪpɚ] [-eɪpə(ɹ)] 
US UK WPaper
- Paper is a thin material produced by pressing together moist fibers, typically cellulose pulp derived from wood, rags or grasses, and drying them into flexible sheets.
- It and the pulp papermaking process is said to have been developed in China during the early 2nd century AD, possibly as early as the year 105 A.D.
- NounPLpapers
- 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.
- 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.
- A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
- NU Wallpaper.
- NU Wrapping paper.
- 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 or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, a workshop or a symposium).
- A scholastic essay.
- SLA Money.
- (New Zealand) A university course.
- A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
- a paper of pins, tacks, opium, &c.
- A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
- cantharides paper
- 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.
- VerbSGpapersPRpaperingPT, PPpapered
- VT To apply paper to.
- to paper the hallway walls
- VT To document; to memorialize.
- After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.
- VT To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
- As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.
- VT To apply paper to.
- Adjective
- Made of paper.
- paper bag; paper plane
- Insubstantial.
- paper tiger; paper gangster
- Made of paper.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- "The football team toilet papered the Smith's house again...this time with paper towels in their trees."
- In this paper we study the invariant metrizability and projective metrizability problems for the special case of the geodesic flow associated to the canonical connection of a Lie group.
- Other grades of paper, such as uncoated free sheet paper used in electronic printers and copiers, are increasing in per capita consumption.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Paper may need to be deinked as part of the recycling process.
- paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- They include photograms, noncamera images made by placing random objects (eyeglasses, hand tools, light bulbs) on light-sensitive paper.
- Tell me his number, and I'll jot it down on this scrap of paper.
- He was burning the midnight oil to finish his paper.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of paper in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Uncomparable adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "paper" is an adjective, more specifically, an uncomparable adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.