Word Finder - paper

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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.

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To apply paper to.

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to paper the hallway walls

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To document; to memorialize.

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After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.

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To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.

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As the event has not sold well, we'll need to paper the house.

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To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).

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To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.

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To sandpaper.

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To enfold in paper.

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To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.

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Made of paper.

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paper bag; paper plane

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Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)

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paper tiger; paper gangster

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Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)

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paper rocket; paper engine

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Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.

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a paper baron; a paper lord

I put aside the paper and tried to nap.

Do you have a couple of paper bags?

There's this God-given gift hanging up there like a paper moon that only the five of us can make happen.

I hope I have written my letter nicely, but it is very difficult to write on this paper and teacher is not here to give me better.

He glanced at the paper and nodded.

He took the paper.

When she didn't respond, he peered over the paper again.

That was only in the paper for one week.

Day after day she moved her pencil in the same tracks along the grooved paper, never for a moment expressing the least impatience or sense of fatigue.

He lowered the paper and methodically folded it.

She tossed the paper aside.

Jackson looked at a piece of paper.

Sofia looked at the paper again.

Lisa did the best she could to draw a map on the small piece of paper.

Hopeful, Sofia crumpled up the paper with Dr. Bylun's information.

She tapped her pencil against the paper, frowning at the scrawled handwriting.

Pulling out a drawer, he removed a paper and pencil.

How easy it is to fly on paper wings!

The price of weapons, of gold, of carts and horses, kept rising, but the value of paper money and city articles kept falling, so that by midday there were instances of carters removing valuable goods, such as cloth, and receiving in payment a half of what they carted, while peasant horses were fetching five hundred rubles each, and furniture, mirrors, and bronzes were being given away for nothing.

The paper is still touting its silly million dollar offer.

On paper, they had a ninety percent chance of surviving the operation.

At length, as I leaned with my elbow on the bench one day, it ran up my clothes, and along my sleeve, and round and round the paper which held my dinner, while I kept the latter close, and dodged and played at bopeep with it; and when at last I held still a piece of cheese between my thumb and finger, it came and nibbled it, sitting in my hand, and afterward cleaned its face and paws, like a fly, and walked away.

She stared at the paper.

The tome was far heavier than she expected, made of something much different than cardboard and paper.

Darkyn was known for going through them like tissue paper.

Fitzgerald made no effort to take the offered paper.

Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald was slipping two one-pint bottles of vodka into a paper bag as Dean was about to open the door.

Fred was referring to a coffee klatch of elderly town patriarchs whose words and advice on just about anything was often quoted in the local paper.

He showed Cynthia the paper.

His eyes went from Gabe to the paper in front of him.

He jumped up, grabbing a paper towel to clean up the mess.

Deidre wiped away more tears and went to her messy desk, where a red-covered notebook sat on a pile of paper.

He held a paper in his hand.

The paper work on Martha was nowhere near as simple as clothing the child.

She ripped off a piece of sketch paper and wrote down her address.

It was obvious he was composing; staff paper littered the piano, and he held a pencil between his teeth.

Fred reached for a paper from his notes.

I told them they would be better off listing it in an Arkansas paper.

The public revenues are derived from customs, taxes, various inland and consumption taxes, state monopolies, the government wharves, posts and telegraphs, &c. The customs taxes include import and export duties, surcharges, harbour dues, warehouse charges, &c.; the inland taxes comprise consumption taxes on alcohol, tobacco, sugar and matches, stamps and stamped paper, capital and mining properties, licences, transfers of property, &c.; and the state monopolies cover opium and salt.

A large increase in imports, caused by fictitious prosperity and inability to obtain drafts against guano shipments, led to the exportation of coin to meet commercial obligations, and this soon reduced the currency circulation to a paper basis.

If we hold a common reading lens (a magnifying lens) in front of a lamp or some other bright object and at some distance from it, and if we hold a sheet of paper vertically at a suitable distance behind the lens, we see depicted on the paper an image of the lamp. This image is inverted and perverted.

The image formed on the paper may be traced out by a pencil, and it will be noticed that in this case the image is real - not virtual as in the case of the camera lucida.

After discussing the structure of the eye he gives an experiment in which the appearance of the reversed images of outside objects on a piece of paper held in front of a small hole in a darkened room, with their forms and colours, is quite clearly described and explained with a diagram, as an illustration of the phenomena of vision.

The sun shining, he fixed a round glass speculum (orbem e vitro) in a window-shutter, and then closing it the images of outside objects would be seen transmitted through the aperture on to the opposite wall, or better, a white paper screen suitably placed.

He shows how the paper must be moved till it is brought into the focus of the lens, the use of a diaphragm to make the image clearer, and also the application of the method for drawing in true perspective.

He was the first to describe an instrument fitted with a sight and paper screen for observing the diameters of the sun and moon in a dark room.

He also demonstrates how enlarged images can be produced and projected on paper by using a concave lens at a suitable distance behind the convex, as in modern telephotographic lenses.

Most of the earlier astronomical work was done in a darkened room, but here we first find the dark chamber constructed of wooden rods covered with cloth or paper, and used separately to screen the observing-tablet.

At one end of it paper was stretched, and at the other a convex lens was fitted in a hole, the image being viewed through an aperture at the top of the box.

The image was first thrown upon an inclined mirror and then reflected upwards to a paper screen on the top of the box.