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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.
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A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
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Wallpaper.
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Wrapping paper.
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(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.
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A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.
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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).
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A scholastic essay.
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A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
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Money.
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A university course.
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A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
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a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.
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A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
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cantharides paper
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A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
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Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.
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(by extension) The people admitted by free passes.