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What does paper mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word paper? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. 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. A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
  3. (uncountable) Wallpaper.
  4. (uncountable) Wrapping paper.
  5. (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.
  6. A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
  7. 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).
  8. A scholastic essay.
  9. (slang) Money.
  10. (New Zealand) A university course.
  11. A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
  12. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
Adjective
  1. Made of paper.
  2. Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
  3. Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
Verb
  1. (transitive) To apply paper to.
  2. (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
  3. (transitive) To fill a theatre or other paid event with complimentary seats.
  4. (transitive) To submit papers to (a law court, etc.).
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