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Meaning paper meaning

What does paper mean?
Definitions in simple English

paper Noun

— Paper is a material for writing and drawing on and is made from wood pulp. A notebook is made from sheets of paper. She made a paper airplane. — A paper is a newspaper, magazine, newsletter, etc. Something that is used to inform people about the news. Is there anything interesting in today's paper? The interview I had with the press was published in today's paper. — Paper is wallpaper, paper that is pasted onto a wall to decorate the place. — Paper is wrapping paper, paper used to wrap things such as presents. The parcel was wrapped in brown paper. — A paper is a written document that reports scientific or academic research. While in university, the professor had written many papers to publish his research in physics. — A paper is a written document. It is usually shorter than a book and is mainly written for the government. The population white paper was published to explain the government's plan in managing the increase in the population. — Paper is the documents that a person carries when going to another country or crossing borders. The corrupted officers took away his papers and was held in the airport for 48 hours.

paper Adjective

— Something that is made of paper. Supermarkets now use paper bags instead of plastic bags to save the environment. — When someone is paper, it means that the person is good in theory (on paper), but bad in practice or reality. That person is a paper general. Even though he has received many awards, he has never fought a single war before.

paper

— noun a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses — noun (= composition) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) he got an A on his composition — noun (= newspaper) a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements he read his newspaper at breakfast — noun a medium for written communication the notion of an office running without paper is absurd — noun a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses he has written many scientific papers — noun (= newspaper) a business firm that publishes newspapers Murdoch owns many newspapers — verb cover with paper paper the box — verb (= wallpaper) cover with wallpaper — noun (= newspaper) the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper

Synonyms paper synonyms

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paper English » English

book document newspaper letter writing essay wallpaper sheet article treatise thesis report page leaf composition gazette theme text sheet of paper notebook mail magazine deed work warrant study record rag project piece of paper periodical papery newsprint newspaper publisher manuscript lecture journal dissertation discourse commercial paper bill written engagement written writing-paper wrapping paper wrapper vegetable tinder theoretical talk

Topics paper topics

What do people use paper to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Working with paper
Language and thought Communication Reading and writing

Write
Language and thought Communication Mass communication

Newspaper
Work and occupation Occupation Art

Draw, paint
Person Body functions

Defecate, feces

  • What things do people use to clean themselves?
    toilet paper
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Cast lots
States Big Thick

Thin thing

Conjugation paper conjugation

How do you conjugate paper?

paper · verb

Examples paper examples

How do I use paper in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I have to write a letter. Do you have some paper?
Have you read today's paper yet?
There's no toilet paper.
I cut the paper with a pair of scissors.
Paper burns easily.
Rock, paper, scissors.
Paper is white.
The paper is white.
Keep the paper.
I need a pen and paper.
This toilet paper is like sandpaper.
The student decided to abridge his paper by taking out unnecessary details.
I'm buying letter paper, some stamps, and some tissue paper.
Did you cut the paper?
All you have to do is sign this paper.
I was disappointed with your paper.
The printer needs paper.
Please give me a pencil and some sheets of paper.
The amount of paper produced by a country is closely related to its cultural standards.
Blotting paper absorbs ink.
If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, her wish will come true.
The man reading a paper over there is my uncle.
There's very little paper left.

Movie subtitles

You want to rock, paper, scissors?
Seen last night's paper?
But I caught up on a lot of paper work.
And I'd be much happier here, in my own home, in my own bed, with one beautiful wall of patterned paper behind it.
What. - I'm only asking because I understand most of what you do is paper pushing, so I-I don't understand why you can't push our paper to the top of the pile.
Then I found a paper trail.
One of them was Mr. Williams, the man in the paper.
All are trimmed with paper strips to make them shrink.
A lot of drafts and white paper were circulating in a certain department.
You go and finish your paper.
I'll put writing paper in the hotel, and next year if you behave yourselves, I'll put in envelopes.
That's just pieces of paper.
What's that paper?
Is the paper yours?
Benjamin told me about your paper's financial difficulties.
Since your paper deals with politics, I've a favor to ask.
Tell him to come to the paper.
Actually, thank you for what you're doing for the paper.
Our paper had to concede his great success, organized, it must be said, by the Arab Office.
Hey, do we have any wrapping paper?
I understand most of what you do is paper pushing, so I-I don't understand why you can't push our paper to the top of the pile.
On paper, their mission was to transport supplies to a microgravity experiment station orbiting at an altitude of 400 kilometers.
What does it say in the paper?
Give me that paper!
Just a small cut from that paper clip.
Lots of money, like, half my paper route money.
Three or four of them might not be usable due to the blood from my paper cuts.
Is not worth the paper it's written on.
Go ahead, you can read your paper.
Give me my paper back. Oh.
She brought me the paper.
Give me pencil and paper, quick.
If you'd let him kiss you, you'd probably have read about it in tomorrow's paper.
You think, don't you, that as Damery says in the paper, I'm taking a chance with the Prentice millions.
Isn't there any paper around here?
The paper cut-outs on the wall add a touch of interior design.

News and current affairs

There are altogether too many complex ideas floating around that look good on paper, but might well prove deeply flawed in a big-time crisis.
If the US gives negotiations one more serious try (a credible offer and a genuine willingness to engage), gets rebuffed, and then does nothing, it will effectively declare itself a paper tiger.
Since then, East Turkestan has existed solely on paper, as a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), a would-be competitor of the United Nations set up in 1991.
That is why we are assessing different methods for gathering data from the field, including the use of mobile applications to digitize paper records.
But by now it is clear that this is a worthless piece of paper.
The paper made the case for developing alternatives to fossil fuels, ensuring that economic development doesn't wreak environmental havoc, and recognizing the importance of adaptation to climate change.
E. B. Wilson, the proverbial giant of cell biology, had the last word, concluding in a brief paper following Rashevsky's presentation that mathematics may be helpful in studying the growth of populations, but not individuals.
As the economist George Psacharopoulos recommended in a recent paper, the highest priority should be what works best: early education, especially preschool.
Fourth, and finally, the failure of Lehman Brothers and near failure of the insurance giant AIG, incited a financial panic, in which even healthy firms are unable to obtain short-term bank loans or sell short-term commercial paper.
Likewise, prior to Premier Wen Jiabao's trip to India in 2010, China began issuing visas on loose sheets of paper stapled into the passports of Kashmir residents applying to enter China - an indirect challenge to India's sovereignty.
In one recent paper, a comparison of ex-users who used for 9 years and abstained from 3 months to 6 years, were compared with long-term users of 10 years, and short-term users of 3 years.
And, however great a project looks on paper, practical implementation is often a sobering experience.
They bought only government paper and securitized real-estate instruments that were issued by the semi-public bodies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The US wanted the Chinese money, but it was not prepared to offer anything more than structured securities of questionable creditworthiness, as well as government paper that is now clearly exposed to the risk of inflation and devaluation.
They owned everything from paper mills to department stores and supermarket chains.
Ireland's authorities have conducted similar recent operations, exchanging short-maturity paper for longer-term debt.
Last December, the European Commission published a Green Paper that contains proposals to reform the EU's rules on mergers.
Given their seemingly boundless benefits, it is unsurprising that plastics have replaced traditional materials in many sectors - for example, steel in cars, paper and glass in packaging, and wood in furniture.
As a result, China's economy is dominated by resource-hungry and inefficient polluters, such as coal and mineral mines, textile and paper mills, iron and steel makers, petrochemical factories, and building material producers.
Specifically, that means social security, private pensions, and medical and unemployment insurance - plans that exist on paper but are woefully underfunded.
The paper that reported the story is owned by the government and sells more copies than all other newspapers combined.
The paper alleged that the men had been enticed into such practices by a Norwegian, who gave them money and gifts in exchange for photos of them engaged in homosexual acts.
We are convinced that the concepts that Liu and his colleagues put down on paper in December 2008 are both universal and timeless.
LONDON - In 1993, the economists Alberto Alesina and Larry Summers published a seminal paper that argued that central bank independence keeps inflation in check, with no adverse consequences for economic performance.
Our trajectory as a species is hardwired to this four-billion-year-old bio-geo-chemical system that has profoundly worked and reworked the planetary environment, all the way from bacteria to city planners, atmospheric oxygen to paper mills.

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