paper

/ˈpeɪpə//ˈpeɪpɚ/

noun

1
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.
2
A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
3
Wallpaper.
4
Wrapping paper.
5
(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.
6
A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
7
A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
8
A scholastic essay.
9
A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
10
Money.
11
A university course.
12
A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
“a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.”
13
A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
“cantharides paper”
14
A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
15
Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
16
(by extension) The people admitted by free passes.

1
To apply paper to.
“to paper the hallway walls”
2
To document; to memorialize.
“After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.”
3
To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
“As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.”
4
To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
5
To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
6
To sandpaper.
7
To enfold in paper.
8
To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.

1
Made of paper.
“paper bag; paper plane”
2
Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)
“paper tiger; paper gangster”
3
Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)
“paper rocket; paper engine”
4
Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.
“a paper baron; a paper lord”

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