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1.nounA 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.nounA newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
3.nounWallpaper.
4.nounWrapping paper.
5.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.
6.nounA written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
7.nounA 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).
8.nounA scholastic essay.
9.nounA set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
10.nounMoney.
11.nounA university course.
12.nounA paper packet containing a quantity of items."a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc."
13.nounA medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application."cantharides paper"
14.nounA substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
15.nounFree passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
16.noun(by extension) The people admitted by free passes.
17.verbTo apply paper to."to paper the hallway walls"
18.verbTo document; to memorialize."After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up."
19.verbTo fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats."As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house."
20.verbTo submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
21.verbTo give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
22.verbTo sandpaper.
23.verbTo enfold in paper.
24.verbTo paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
25.adjectiveMade of paper."paper bag; paper plane"
26.adjectiveInsubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)"paper tiger; paper gangster"
27.adjectivePlanned (from plans being drawn up on paper)"paper rocket; paper engine"
28.adjectiveHaving a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention."a paper baron; a paper lord"