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▸ noun: A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
▸ noun: (uncountable) Wallpaper.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Wrapping paper.
▸ noun: (rock paper scissors) 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.
▸ noun: A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
▸ noun: 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).
▸ noun: A scholastic essay.
▸ noun: (British, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
▸ noun: (slang) Money.
▸ noun: (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie.
▸ noun: (New Zealand) A university course.
▸ noun: A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
▸ noun: A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
▸ noun: A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
▸ noun: (dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
▸ noun: (dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
▸ adjective: Made of paper.
▸ adjective: Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
▸ adjective: Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
▸ adjective: Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
▸ verb: (transitive) To apply paper to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
▸ verb: (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
▸ verb: (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
▸ verb: (transitive) To sandpaper.
▸ verb: (transitive) To enfold in paper.
▸ verb: To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
▸ verb: (Northeastern US) To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.
Similar:
wallpaper,
newspaper,
theme,
composition,
report,
newspaper publisher,
newsprint,
sheet,
pape,
journal,
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Types:
construction paper,
tissue paper,
wrapping paper,
parchment paper,
wax paper,
butcher paper,
toilet paper,
copy paper,
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