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PAPER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher

Example:

when it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper

Synonyms:

newspaper; paper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("paper" is a kind of...):

product; production (an artifact that has been created by someone or some process)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A medium for written communication

Example:

the notion of an office running without paper is absurd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("paper" is a kind of...):

medium (a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information)

Holonyms ("paper" is a substance of...):

page (one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements

Example:

he read his newspaper at breakfast

Synonyms:

newspaper; paper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("paper" is a kind of...):

press; public press (the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines)

Meronyms (parts of "paper"):

rotogravure (printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press)

column; editorial; newspaper column (an article giving opinions or perspectives)

feature; feature article (a special or prominent article in a newspaper or magazine)

news article; news story; newspaper article (an article reporting news)

headline; newspaper headline (the heading or caption of a newspaper article)

sports section (the section of a newspaper that reports on sports)

news item (an item in a newspaper)

cartoon strip; comic strip; funnies; strip (a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paper"):

daily (a newspaper that is published every day)

gazette (a newspaper or official journal)

school newspaper; school paper (a newspaper written and published by students in a school)

rag; sheet; tabloid (newspaper with half-size pages)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses

Example:

he has written many scientific papers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("paper" is a kind of...):

article (nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication)

Sense 5

Meaning:

An essay (especially one written as an assignment)

Example:

he got an A on his composition

Synonyms:

composition; paper; report; theme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("paper" is a kind of...):

essay (an analytic or interpretive literary composition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paper"):

term paper (a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A business firm that publishes newspapers

Example:

Murdoch owns many newspapers

Synonyms:

newspaper; newspaper publisher; paper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("paper" is a kind of...):

publisher; publishing company; publishing firm; publishing house (a firm in the publishing business)

Sense 7

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("paper" is a kind of...):

material; stuff (the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object)

Meronyms (substance of "paper"):

cellulose (a polysaccharide that is the chief constituent of all plant tissues and fibers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paper"):

music paper; score paper (paper with lines appropriate for writing music)

newspaper; newsprint (cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers)

oilpaper (paper that has been made translucent and waterproof by soaking in oil)

india paper (a thin tough opaque paper used in fine books)

pad; pad of paper; tablet (a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge)

paper tape (a long narrow strip of paper)

paper toweling (absorbent paper used as toweling)

paper-mache; papier-mache (a substance made from paper pulp that can be molded when wet and painted when dry)

papyrus (paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans)

parchment (a superior paper resembling sheepskin)

rice paper (a thin delicate material resembling paper; made from the rice-paper tree)

roofing paper; tar paper (a heavy paper impregnated with tar and used as part of a roof for waterproofing)

ticker tape (a continuous thin ribbon of paper on which stock quotes are written)

tissue; tissue paper (a soft thin (usually translucent) paper)

tracing paper (a semitransparent paper that is used for tracing drawings)

transfer paper (a paper that is coated with a preparation for transferring a design to another surface)

wallpaper (a decorative paper for the walls of rooms)

waste paper (paper discarded after use)

wax paper (paper that has been waterproofed by treatment with wax or paraffin)

wrapping paper (a tough paper used for wrapping)

writing paper (paper material made into thin sheets that are sized to take ink; used for writing correspondence and manuscripts)

card (one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes)

confetti (small pieces or streamers of colored paper that are thrown around on festive occasions (as at a wedding))

piece of paper; sheet; sheet of paper (paper used for writing or printing)

art paper (a high-quality paper (usually having a filler of china clay))

blotter; blotting paper (absorbent paper used to dry ink)

blueprint paper (sensitized paper used to make blueprints)

carbon; carbon paper (a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper)

cardboard; composition board (a stiff moderately thick paper)

cartridge paper (paper for making cartridge cases)

chad (a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape)

computer paper (paper folded to permit continuous printing controlled by a computer)

construction paper (paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts)

crepe; crepe paper (paper with a crinkled texture; usually colored and used for decorations)

drawing paper (paper that is specially prepared for use in drafting)

filter paper (a porous unsized paper used for filtering)

flypaper (paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies)

graph paper (paper that has lines to permit drawing graphs)

greaseproof paper (paper that is impermeable to oil or grease; used in cooking)

linen; linen paper (a high-quality paper made of linen fibers or with a linen finish)

litmus paper (unsized paper treated with litmus for use as an acid-base indicator)

manifold; manifold paper (a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies)

manila; manila paper; manilla; manilla paper (a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp)

Derivation:

paper (cover with wallpaper)

paper (cover with paper)

papery (thin and paperlike)

papery (of or like paper)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover with wallpaper

Synonyms:

paper; wallpaper

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "paper" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

paperer (one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper)

papering (the application of wallpaper)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cover with paper

Example:

paper the box

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "paper" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

paper (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The process by which an image is acquired by recording light emissions on radiation-sensitive paper.

(Photography, NCI Thesaurus)

So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So saying, he returned to his papers and his silence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A dosing unit equal to the amount of active ingredient(s) contained in a piece of paper.

(Paper Dosing Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

An example includes glassine powder paper containing aspirin.

(Packet, NCI Thesaurus)

Mercury will retrograde from February 16 to March 9, so sign all your papers early in the month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Why, I'm that tired Sunday I can't even read the papers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I found him still driving at it with a long pen, and his head almost laid upon the paper.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The master thought of writing a note, but searched his pockets vainly for pencil and paper.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Can you suggest any possible motive for taking the papers to London except to sell them?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)