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Paper

noun

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

An essay (especially one written as an assignment). Synonyms: composition, report, theme.

A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements. Synonym: newspaper.

A medium for written communication.

A scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses.

A business firm that publishes newspapers. Synonyms: newspaper, newspaper publisher.

The physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher. Synonym: newspaper.

verb

(past & past part. papered; pres. part. papering)

Cover with paper.

Cover with wallpaper. Synonym: wallpaper.

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"Paper" Quotes from Famous Books

... spoke she thrust her hand into the bosom of her dress. In another second she had drawn forth a crumpled paper. ...

— For Gold or Soul? - The Story of a Great Department Store • Lurana W. Sheldon

... paper beside the ledger, Don Luis read off many items. Occasionally he did some figuring on the sheet of paper, as though to make the matters more clear to his daughter. She made a very pretty picture, trying to follow her father's explanations, but ...

— The Young Engineers in Mexico • H. Irving Hancock

... Parliament granted money for the beginning of hostilities, and the treaties with Spain were publicly declared to be at an end. The Spanish ambassador in London—probably with the help of the fallen favourite, the Earl of Somerset—being unable to obtain speech with his Sowship, slipped a paper into his hand, declaring that he was a prisoner in his own house, and was entirely governed by Buckingham and his creatures. The first effect of this letter was that his Sowship began to cry and whine, and took Baby Charles away from Steenie, and went down to Windsor, gabbling all sorts of nonsense. ...

— A Child's History of England • Charles Dickens

... though so warmly urged, and so artfully supported, I can consider only as a repetition of a former motion which was approved by the assembly, so far as it could properly be complied with, nor was any paper then concealed which it would not have been an injury to ...

— The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 10. - Parlimentary Debates I. • Samuel Johnson

... and one muscular, fiercely mus-tached and bearded young man, whose artistic forte yas battle-pieces of the most sanguinary description, appropriated him bodily and set him on his shoulder, greatly to the detriment of his paper collar. ...

— Vagabondia - 1884 • Frances Hodgson Burnett

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