Definition of Paper

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Definition of Paper

Paper

Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.

A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried.

A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society.

A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper.

Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.

Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below.

A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.

Of or pertaining to paper; made of paper; resembling paper; existing only on paper; unsubstantial; as, a paper box; a paper army.

To cover with paper; to furnish with paper hangings; as, to paper a room or a house.

To fold or inclose in paper.

To put on paper; to make a memorandum of.

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Paper Quotations

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.
Benjamin Franklin

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Pablo Picasso

One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
Will Rogers

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.
Erma Bombeck

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump

Paper Translations

paper in Afrikaans is dokument
paper in Danish is papir
paper in Dutch is bescheid, document, papier, akte
paper in Finnish is paperi
paper in French is document, papier
paper in Italian is documento, carta, gazzetta
paper in Norwegian is papir, dokument
paper in Portuguese is papel
paper in Spanish is ponencia, documento, papel, escrito, gaceta
paper in Swedish is tidning, papper

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