papers
/ˈpeɪpəz/ · 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.
- Official documents or identification, as a passport.
- A collection of documents, unpublished writing or correspondence in an archive or library collection.
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