Word Finder - papers

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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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Official documents or identification, as a passport.

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He lost his papers while travelling and had a hard time getting home.

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A collection of documents, unpublished writing or correspondence in an archive or library collection.

When she signed the adoption papers she was told that it was permanent.

Carmen stood and pushed the papers aside.

She switched off her computer and tucked some papers into a desk drawer.

Alex was reading some papers in the family room when the guests came in.

No ads were listed in the local papers.

Surely she would have had to sign papers if he had changed that.

Cynthia set aside the notebook and papers and rose.

As soon as Jake Weller left, Cynthia questioned her husband about the candidate filing papers Weller handed him.

End of conversation, except Dean noticed Cynthia fold the papers and put them aside.

Yeah. The lawyer said he came by personally with the papers.

So you're guessing he was the one who took the Annie papers, the ones Donnie lost?

I just need you to sign these papers and I'll be out of your hair.

Mrs. Thompson led me in to the office where she sat down and filled out a bunch of papers.

Dean spent the remainder of the work­day sorting reports and more closely reviewing the Byrne papers.

Fred made careful notes of everything Dean said, shuffling papers in his lined notebook.

I saw the papers.

They don't stock the Parkside Sentinel in all the libraries around the country like they do the big city papers.

Monica grumbled that Segal was more interested in selling papers than the truth so if he wanted to kill her that was fine with her.

Dean was still shuffling papers when Fred ambled in the door.

The pair finished their burglary report and agreed to try and keep the matter out of the papers in deference to Dean's other police activities.

Occasionally a little breeze puffed in but it was more of an annoyance than a help, scattering papers and patience in a hot breath of sweat and exhaust.

Dean tossed aside the map and papers and flopped down on the living room sofa, startling Mrs. Lincoln.

Maybe waiting for papers to come.

That doesn't give him much time to apply for false papers.

He wasn't in Scranton very often and the papers would pile up.

Did the papers show where he's staying?

When I checked with the Sentinel, they told me the subscription remained open but there weren't any papers lying around unclaimed, yet you said there wasn't any forwarding notice filed with the Post Office.

No one could take them back once the papers were signed.

He resisted the urge to burn them, in case the brittle papers held more secrets he needed.

She lifted a stack of papers and straightened them with a sharp rap on her mahogany desktop, deliberately ignoring his empty invitation.

His remark punctured a hole in her thin armor and she exploded, slamming the papers onto her desktop so hard that one of the pages floated to the floor.

I was picking up papers in the lobby and happened to notice the article.

If he's bothering you, I can give him his walking papers.

I saw his name on the papers Muldrow showed me when he was telling me how to get here.

He soon began to attract attention by the memoires which he read before his colleagues - papers which formed the first draft of his comprehensive work on ideology.

In 1886 he became proprietor of the San Francisco Examiner, the first of a long chain of papers to come under his control.

His papers were sensational in form and contents and had an enormous popular circulation.

In 1894 and 1895, Fischer, in a remarkable series of papers on the influence of molecular structure upon the action of the enzyme, showed that various species of yeast behave very differently towards solutions of sugars.

On each side of this is a curve formed of two rows of -HH a From Papers of the British School at Rome, v.

On the 24th of November he was indicted for high treason at the Old Bailey, the chief ground being a paper of association for the defence of the Protestant religion, which, though among his papers, was not in his handwriting; but the grand jury ignored the bill.

Papers by him have appeared in the mathematical journals of Italy, France, Germany and England, and he has published several important works, many of which have been translated into other languages.

Green, Lives of the Princesses of England (6 vols., London, 1849-1855); The Hamilton Papers, ed.

His earlier papers were mostly concerned with crystallography, and the reputation they gained him led to his appointment as Privatdozent at Konigsberg, where in 1828 he became extraordinary, and in 1829 ordinary, professor of mineralogy and physics.

He also made important contributions to the mathematical theory of electrodynamics, and in papers published in 1845 and 1847 established mathematically the laws of the induction of electric currents.

In1859-1860Foucher de Careil published in two parts some unedited writings of Descartes from copies taken by Leibnitz from the original papers.

After Napier's death his manuscripts and notes came into the possession of his second son by his second marriage, Robert, who edited the Constructio; and Colonel Milliken Napier, Robert's lineal male representative, was still in the possession of many of these private papers at the close of the 18th century.

On one occasion when Colonel Napier was called from home on foreign service, these papers, together with a portrait of John Napier and a Bible with his autograph, were deposited for safety in a room of the house at Milliken, in Renfrewshire.

During the owner's absence the house was burned to the ground, and all the papers and relics were destroyed.

Finding them in a neglected state, amongst my family papers, I have bound them together, in order to preserve them entire.-Napier, 7th March 1801."

The transcripts are entirely in the handwriting of Robert Napier himself, and the two notes that have been quoted prove that they were made from Napier's own papers.