paper

/ˈpeɪpə/ · noun

Meaning

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.
A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
Wallpaper.
Wrapping paper.
(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.
A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
To apply paper to.
To document; to memorialize.
To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
To sandpaper.
Made of paper.
Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.

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