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Papers

noun

Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature). Synonyms: document, written document.

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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... morning and night I go through the monotony of railway travel, and for one who is forbidden to use his eyes on the train and who does not play cards it is monotony, for in the morning my friends are either playing cards or else reading their papers, and one does not like to urge the claims of conversation on one who is deep in politics or the next play of his antagonist; so my getting to business and coming back are in the nature of purgatory. I therefore hailed the automobile as a Heaven-sent ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

... characters when the time comes. You begin then; here's a song," and he handed one of the papers ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... also, my brother returned with accounts and papers relative to the Slave-trade, from Havre de Grace; but as I had pledged myself to offer no other person to be examined, his evidence was lost. Thus, after all the pains we had taken, and in a contest, too, on the success of which our own reputation ...

— The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) • Thomas Clarkson

... years since the 'Jack Warhorse' won his hero-crown. Thousands of "Kaskadoans" will remember him, and by the name Warhorse his coursing exploits are recorded in several daily papers. ...

— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton

... there,—as he should have liked to have warmed himself by a good fire before going farther. He remembered that there were a partly preserved stove in the deserted house, broken laths, and naily boards, and swathes of curious old wall-papers, layer upon layer, which, dampening and rotting from the wall, hung raggedly down. He had once explored the house with Margaret, and it seemed almost wise to go to the place and make a fire. But ...

— Aladdin O'Brien • Gouverneur Morris

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